Science + Tech

At the meeting of the CWRU Board of Trustees this weekend there was a celebration of the remarkable success of the University’s capital campaign. A big part of that success can be attributed to the School of Medicine, which raised $667M over the period of the campaign.  How will that money be…

Raisa Echols and Rebecca Davenport (MS Medical Physiology Program) selected for 2019 summer internships through the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program - American Society for Engineering Education.

Researchers block two cancer cell signaling pathways and slow tumor growth Blocking two molecular pathways that send signals inside cancer cells could stave off esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), the most common esophageal malignancy in the United States, according to new research from a team led by…

Case Western Reserve researchers observe waves ‘leap’ across cut in brain tissue; ‘ephaptic coupling’ said to be producing self-propagating waves unknown until nowBiomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University say they have identified a previously unidentified form of neural…

Earlier this week I had the chance to speak with the Faculty Council about the critical importance of collaboration across the city of Cleveland for bringing our fondest hopes for medicine, the School, the University, and the city to fruition. We talked about the attractiveness of the four…

B. multivorans is a notorious pathogen that can cause infections such as pneumonia in immune-compromised individuals with underlying lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis. This pathogen can also cause rapid clinical deterioration in patients, including blood stream infections, which can lead to…

It’s important to know that despite its name, “heart failure” does not mean your heart has failed or stopped working. So what does it really mean? The term actually describes a medical condition in which the heart isn’t pumping enough blood to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen.  You may…

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Gunnur Karakurt, PhD has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify effective treatments for intimate partner violence (IPV), and to develop a decision-making tool for care providers. The…

CTSC KL2 Scholar alumna and associate professor of psychiatry at the CWRU School of Medicine, Gunnur Karakurt, PhD has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify effective treatments for intimate partner violence (IPV), and to develop a…

Paris-based foundation supports effort to potentially “turn off” vascular problems Transcription factors are proteins that determine whether specific genes are transcribed or not by binding to DNA. In other words, they help turn genes "on" or "off." One such transcription factor, Kruppel-like…