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Case Center for Imaging Research Anant Madabhushi, PhD Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was one of the authors of a paper that developed new pathology guidelines…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was one of the authors of a paper that developed new pathology guidelines for accurate testing for breast cancer diagnosis for the College of…

A scientific team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic has developed a new way to identify second-line antibiotics that may be effective in killing germs already resistant to a first-line antibiotic – potentially helping overcome antibiotic resistance. This…

Zihua Gong, MD, PhD A new five-year, $1.8 million award will allow Zihua Gong, MD, PhD to work to better understand the mechanisms of resistance of PARP inhibitors (PARPi) that induce cell death in BRCA1 and BRCA2-deficient cancer cells associated with breast and ovarian cancer.…

Microscopic examination of brain tissues of prion-infected animals. (Left) Staining shows spongiform degeneration. (Right) Staining shows intense misfolded prion protein. Prions can infect both humans and animals, causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, mad cow disease in…

CWRU, CSU initiative designed to shape region into digital innovation leader The Internet of Things Collaborative (IoTC), a partnership between Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State universities, is bringing together industrial, governmental, educational, neighborhood and nonprofit entities in…

Following evaluation of faculty-led proposals, the leadership of the University Hospitals (UH) Research Division has announced the establishment of their first two Centers of Excellence (COEs): the Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular-Metabolic Disease (CINEMA) and the Center for…

The following is a message from Director Stan Gerson, MD and Associate Director for Basic Research Ruth Keri, PhD. The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center would like to thank Bingcheng Wang, PhD and Alex Almasan, PhD for their hard work in leading the Alex…

Monday is Martin Luther King Day in America. Though much has improved in our country for African Americans since his tragic assassination in 1968 – the year that so much changed – we still live in a world where serious health disparities persist, and we have too few tools to combat them. As Dr.…

Results in mouse sepsis model lay foundation for clinical trials Biochemists, microbiologists, drug discovery experts and infectious disease doctors have teamed up in a new study that shows antibiotics are not always necessary to cure sepsis in mice. Instead of killing causative bacteria with…