School of Medicine

The School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences will host a webinar on the Master of Public Health program Friday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to noon. During the session, the Master of Public Health student representatives will discuss their program experience and…

Param Ramakrishnan Parameswaran (Param) Ramakrishnan, associate professor of pathology and biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently won a grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) for his research on autoimmunity function in type 1 diabetes.…

Researchers influence white blood cells, called macrophages, to slow or reverse disease progression Cancer researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine say they have successfully suppressed the growth of some solid tumors in research models by manipulating immune cells known…

After two years virtual, the 18th annual Graduate Student Award Ceremony returns to the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom on Tuesday, April 26, at 3 p.m. EDT. More than 100 students will be honored with awards from the College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering, Weatherhead…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences for an information session on the MS in Clinical Research program. Program director Jim Spilsbury will give a presentation on the…

Findings support restored memory function by as much as 50% About 11% of the U.S. population 65 and older has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia that results in memory loss and cognitive impairment, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And the…

Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology and biochemistry, published an article titled “Sam68 contributes to intestinal inflammation in experimental and human colitis” in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences.  The article identifies the protein Sam68 as an important inflammatory…

Trygve Dolber, assistant professor of psychiatry and internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, discussed the link between mental health, diabetes, and heart disease on Cardi-OH Radio’s podcast, “The Heart-Mind-Body Connection: Mental Health and Cardiometabolic…

About 5,000 children and teens in the United States are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each year, and the rate is increasing about 5% annually, putting thousands of children at risk for diabetic kidney disease (DKD). While DKD is still considered relatively rare in children, Katherine Kutney, an…

CDC says most people can now wait 8 weeks between first and second COVID-19 shots Healthline: Mark Cameron, associate professor at the School of Medicine, discussed updated CDC guidance recommending that people over age 12 wait eight weeks between their first and second COVID-19 doses.