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Charis Eng, MD, PhD, received a two-year, nearly $680,000 grant from the PTEN Research Foundation to investigate how genomic alterations influence PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS). With this grant, Dr. Eng’s team will sequence the whole genomes of a large number of PHTS patients from around the…

Student survey responses overwhelmingly support first remote-only HoloAnatomy course The developers of Case Western Reserve University’s signature HoloAnatomy mixed-reality software for the Microsoft HoloLens knew they were likely achieving a global first this spring as they quickly pivoted to…

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Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center,  Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, and Professor of Bioethics, has written more than sixty articles and book chapters on health law and civil rights issues in her career.  She is also the author of two books:  Aging with A Plan:  How…

Long-time members of the Case Western Reserve community may have seen them play iconic campus hangouts like the Barking Spiker, Euclid Tavern or Cosmic Dave’s Rock Club. Others could have caught their 2018 show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But for anyone who has not seen Razing the Bar, the…

A Case Comprehensive Cancer-led team has secured $10.4 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to explore at the molecular level the differences in glioblastoma between males and females. The researchers will delve into the genetics, epigenetics and…

Case Western Reserve computer and data sciences researcher improving privacy for global genomic data sharing network, supported by $1.2 million NIH grant A Case Western Reserve University computer and data sciences researcher is working to shore up privacy protections for people whose genomic…

Case Western Reserve University researcher takes aim at hard-to-treat metastatic cancers by using new method to unlock ‘cold tumors’ for successful treatment A team of scientists led by aresearcher at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is making strides to fight deadly…

A team co-led by Cleveland Clinic radiation oncologist Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil and Case Western Reserve University theoretical biophysicist Michael Hinczewski, PhD recently published findings from a new study that demonstrates, for the first time, how quantum physics concepts can assist in the…

Case Western Reserve University works with NYU and pharmaceutical companies Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca to validate imaging-based solutions for predicting response to therapy for lung cancer patients For artificial intelligence (AI) tools being developed at Case Western Reserve University to…