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Celebrate 19 Years of Research Collaboration During CTSC Translational Science Week
This September, the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) will mark its 19th birthday with CTSC Translational Science Week, a weeklong celebration of the partnerships and programs that advance translational science across Northern Ohio. Taking place Sept. 14–18, the week will…
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Bioethics’ Eileen Anderson gives talk to the National Supervised Visitation Network on working with vulnerable children
Eileen Anderson, EdD, the Anne Templeton Zimmerman MD Professor in Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently gave a plenary address to the National Supervised Visitation Network, the national organization of professionals who oversee supervised visitation for…
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Homecoming 2026: Thoughts from the co-chairs
Celebrating heritage and innovation
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Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals fund six research teams through the 2026 Collaborative Science Pilot Awards
Program emphasizes mentorship between junior investigators and established researchers
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Brenessa Lindeman appointed executive dean of Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University have appointed Brenessa Lindeman, MD, as executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.As executive dean, Lindeman will lead Lerner College of Medicine’s distinctive five-year…
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Meet an undergraduate student who is already making her mark in research
When second-year Case Western Reserve University student Alicia Mathew was growing up, her mother—a physical therapist specializing in dementia care—would share textbooks from her college days. Fascinated by the brain and the science behind it, Mathew spent hours reading about neuroanatomy and…
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Case Western Reserve University researcher receives award from the Hartwell Foundation to study cystic fibrosis gut disease
Leah Gates will study epigenetic mechanisms behind severe gastrointestinal complications in children with cystic fibrosis
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Orthopaedics’ Katherine Bogie secures nearly $3M research award for the translation of flexSTIM
Katherine Bogie, assistant professor of orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a team of researchers recently secured a research award from the Department of Veterans Rehabilitation Research & Development Service. This award, worth nearly $3 million, provides…
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Engineering’s Umut Gurkan receives two grant awards, totaling over $1.2M, to advance sickle cell research
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number STTR R42HL182546. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the…
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5 questions with graduating physician assistant student Riddhi Patel
As commencement approaches for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine physician assistant (PA) students, the excitement of what lies ahead is matched by the gratitude to the people, classes and clinicals that made a difference along the way—because the journey of earning one’s degree is…