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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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September 29, 2022
Children who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a new study that analyzed electronic health records of more than 1 million patients ages 18 and younger. In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers at…
September 28, 2022
Finding suggests transmission between species may be possible In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease. This insight, they say, reveals the mechanism…
September 27, 2022
New Case Western Reserve University study suggests it just might Stress has been linked to all sorts of serious health issues, from insomnia to high blood pressure, obesity and even heart disease. But it’s generally acknowledged that some stress can also be helpful, like when someone’s chasing a…
September 27, 2022
There are many initiatives that work to address nutrition inequality; however, these programs are often not coordinated with other aspects of the local food system. The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is awarding an additional $1 million grant to Case Western Reserve University…
September 27, 2022
Join Anthony Saar, director of the Post-baccalaureate Readiness Instruction for bioMedical Education (PRIME) program for a Q&A session to learn more about PRIME Thursday, Sept. 29, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Saar will share information about the two popular tracks for students to complete…
September 26, 2022
Case School of Engineering program becomes first of its kind to be accredited in the U.S. With a new academic year comes new program offerings at Case Western Reserve University—and in the case of the university’s engineering school, new accomplishments on a national stage. Case School of…
September 23, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 4 million deaths and effective methods to control CoV-2 infection, in addition to vaccines, are needed. A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University designed a trimeric version of the receptor-binding domain (tRBD) of the Cov-2 virus and show…
September 23, 2022
Param Ramakrishnan, associate professor of pathology at the School of Medicine, recently gave a presentation at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia. Ramakrishnan’s presentation, titled “Dual Regulation of Transcription in T lymphocytes by NF-kappaB c-Rel…
September 22, 2022
Study will allow researchers to develop personalized precision medicine for treatment of IBD in this underrepresented minority patient population Gay men are more than twice as likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than heterosexual men when both populations engage in high-risk sexual…
September 21, 2022
When Jonathan Haines was learning about genetics in his high school biology class, he thought it was going to be pretty straightforward—you get one copy of genes from mom, one copy from dad and that’s it. “By the time I realized it was really complex, I was already hooked,” said Haines, the Mary…