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Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan recognized with American College of Cardiology top honor
Rajagopalan to be presented with the Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain during ACC’s 70th Annual Scientific Session Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, FACC, has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for his…
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Addressing mismatch of affordable housing and jobs with community-driven innovation
CWRU and CSU partner with Cuyahoga County and The Fund for Our Economic Future to address regional mobility issues It’s a common dilemma for many low-income households in older industrial cities like Cleveland: Without a reliable car, employment options are limited. And without a decent job, it’s…
Empire Strikes Back by Youngjin Yoo
Written by Youngjin Yoo On November 12, 2019, over 10 million families signed up for Disney's new digital streaming service on the first day of service. Given that 60 million families in the US (165 million worldwide) subscribed to Netflix after 12 years of operation, this was a remarkable…
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Preventing pressure injuries
Biomedical engineer leads team at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland VA in developing blood test to determine whether patient could get potentially deadly bedsores Pressure injuries, also known as bedsores, are often understood as merely painful or uncomfortable side effects of immobility or limited…
Alumni Feature: Allison Zmozynski (MGT '20), Global Process Manager, Google
Allison Zmozynski MBA Program: Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management Class: Full-time 2020 Current Location: Cleveland, OH (Will be based in Sunnyvale, CA post Covid) Current Company and Title: Google, Global Process Manager
Curing Kids Cancer awards Alex Huang’s team for pediatric bone cancer research
Alex Huang and his research team, including Sung-Hee Choi and Suzanne Tomchuck (pictured here, left to right), recently received a $100K award from Curing Kids Cancer, for their work on osteosarcoma, a highly aggressive bone cancer that affects 400–600 children, teens and young adults in the U.S.…
CWRU student starts "Teen Bizness" podcast
By: Yvonne Pan Have you felt like you've been listening to the same music over and over again since the start of quarantine? First-year student Akansh Devendra felt this way when he turned to podcasts as entertainment for the first time this past July. His favorites? Ted Radio Hour (the first…
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Chakraborty awarded 2020 V Scholar Grant
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Cleveland Clinic's Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD as he was awarded a 2020 V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research for his proposal, "Chromatin Dysfunction Identifies Metabolic Regulators as Potential Therapeutic Targets…
Colorectal cancer research funded by the National Cancer Institute investigates new potential immunotherapy targets
A team of researchers from CWRU and UH is investigating the role of Erbb3 in the development of colorectal cancer. To put it simply, says lead investigator Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, the team is attempting to discover the pathways that can switch the cold tumors to hot tumors, and activate immune…
Student Spotlight – Bre'Andria Thompson
Working in health care is all in the family for Bre’Andria Thompson, a student in the second year of the Physician Assistant (PA) program at the School of Medicine. The oldest of eight children born and raised in Alabama, Bre’ is also the oldest of triplet girls—and all three are pursuing careers…