Science + Tech
October 18, 2019
Dear members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center community: I am happy to announce that John Pounardjian, MBA has been appointed Associate Director of Administration at our exceptional center. This appointment comes after an extensive national search following the departure of former…
October 18, 2019
For the past three years, the National Cancer Institute has funded the Youth Engaged in Science (YES) program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), introducing and training underrepresented minorities to cancer care and research professions. The program is led by Nathan Berger, MD. Program…
October 11, 2019
Nathan Berger, MD recently received the 2019 Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recognizing his faculty-to-faculty advisership. Dr. Berger has received many accolades in his work as a Distinguished University Professor, the Hanna-Payne…
October 11, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) extends congratulations to two members recently received grants from the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). Justin Lathia, PhD received the ABTA Research Collaboration Grant in collaboration with Joshua Rubin, MD, PhD of Washington University…
October 11, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will host the 2019 Clinical Research Retreat from 5-7 pm on Thursday, November 21 at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, CA5-120. The evening will feature presentations from K12 scholars and a keynote presentation by Charles Kunos, MD, PhD on, "Engaging…
October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at Case Western Reserve Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups. His curiosity, fueled…
October 08, 2019
Originally posted on Crain's Cleveland. Uber owns no vehicles, Facebook owns no creative content, Airbnb owns no real estate. And someday, United Airlines may own no airplanes. Sound far-fetched? Well, if Case Western Reserve University professor Youngjin Yoo is right, it could happen. Yoo, who…
October 08, 2019
Comprehensive sequencing effort could reveal how bacteria cause gut wall damage Scientists have made genetic data publicly available for bacteria that
might be lurking inside the gut walls of patients chronically affected with severe
Crohn’s disease. By studying a surgically removed, damaged…
October 07, 2019
William Kaelin, Jr., MD William Kaelin, Jr. from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe from Oxford University and Francis Crick Institute and Gregg L. Semenza from Johns…
October 07, 2019
The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB) is pleased to announce that it has been instrumental in helping to create The Book of OHDSI, 1 st Edition , the first textbook describing the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community, the OHDSI (OMOP) data…