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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in…

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Outlet: Daily Mail (UK)

Glen Taksler, PhD, received a 5-year, $3M grant from National Institute on Aging for “Testing the Effectiveness of Individualized Disease Prevention for Middle-Aged Adults.” The goal of the study is to help middle-aged adults make informed decisions about healthcare services, integrating a…

It’s holiday party season and this weekend, I went to several. At one, I met a distinguished emeritus faculty member, Jim Sampliner, who has been battling cancer. The first thing he said to me was, “I finished my ninth cycle of chemo last week, so I’m ready to go back to substituting at least in…

Outlet: The Plain Dealer

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Donna Plecha, MD as she was recently named Chair of the Department of Radiology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Dr. Plecha has been a faculty member at University Hospitals since 1993, is a professor of radiology at…

SWOG, ECOG, Alliance, NRG, COG, and NCTN. What does this alphabet soup mean for advancing care for patients? Some view the cooperative groups as a mechanism by which studies, that the pharmaceutical industry will undertake, get done. A few even go as far as describe them as the place to conduct a…

The development of a set of strategies for delivering genome editing complexes directly to stem cells has earned a group of innovators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine a first-year grant of nearly $700,000 through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Somatic Cell Genome…

Last month, the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center welcomed nearly 150 people to campus for the "Innovators in AYA Cancer: Driving Science and Policy toward a Brighter Future for Teens and Young Adults with Cancer" symposium. Throughout this day and a half event, research findings and scientific…