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A team of investigators led by Nima Sharifi, MD, GU Malignancies Program Leader, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Kendrick Family Chair for Prostate Cancer Research at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, have been awarded the 2018 Mizel Family Foundation PCF VAlor Challenge Award for…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund a newly created program that will engage undergraduate scholars in cancer research. The Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research program (CanSUR) will be…

The Office of Cancer Disparities Research of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC)  has made pilot award selections following a recent RFA. The awards are an effort to stimulate research designed to both improve understanding of contributing factors to cancer disparities as well as…

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown that a single “cocktail” of three pill-based anti-parasite medications is significantly more effective at killing microscopic larval worms in people diagnosed with lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis,…

Non-contrast based technique may benefit patients with peripheral arterial disease Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a three-year, $1,118,556 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to investigate a new imaging…

Mukesh Jain, MD, and colleagues have been awarded a five-year, $6M grant from the Paris-based Fondation Leducq to conduct a thorough analysis of the pivotal role of KLF2 in vascular-related functions and disorders. The team’s grant was one of five awarded globally and aims to improve knowledge and…

On November 1st, 1843, sixty-seven students and six faculty members gathered together to begin classes in the Department of Medicine of Western Reserve University. The students paid $72 in tuition. This was our beginning! This past Thursday was the formal 175th anniversary of the founding class of…

Lin Mei, MD, PhD, joins Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as professor, chair of the Department of Neurosciences, and director of the Cleveland Brain Health Initiative. Mei comes to the medical school following 13 highly productive years at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta…

Mark Jackson, PhD Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is preparing and inspiring a new generation of cancer investigators through Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research (CanSUR). The 10-week program recently received a five-year National Institutes of Health…

Case Western Reserve University research team awarded $1.35 million to study solar photovoltaic module construction, part of broader U.S. effort to make solar energy efficient, affordable A team of solar energy researchers from Case Western Reserve University has been awarded $1.35 million from the…