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Get to know Michael Yaffe, CWRU School of Medicine's 2026 Commencement speaker
Commencement marks the moment when students become alumni—when every hour spent in classes, labs and hospital rooms pays off as graduates take the next step on the path to doctorhood.For Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD (GRS ’87, pharmacology; MED ’89), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s…
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August 25, 2021
Mukesh Jain, the Ellery Sedgwick Chair and Distinguished Scientist in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, is internationally recognized for his discovery of the role of a family of factors termed Kruppel-like factors (KLFs)—DNA-binding proteins that regulate a host of…
August 24, 2021
Program: Master of Public Health ProgramYear: Second-Year At a time when misinformation related to health care abounds, it's important to seek out expertise. Ibrahim Mohammed Alasafrah, a second-year public health master’s student, is on a quest to do just that. Alasafrah recently launched a…
August 21, 2021
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first U.S. patent for a novel ovarian cancer vaccine technology developed by Cleveland Clinic researchers Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, Suparna Mazumder, PhD, and Justin M. Johnson. The technology is licensed worldwide by Anixa Biosciences, Inc., a…
August 21, 2021
Scientists in Anant Madabhushi's lab have used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify new biomarkers for breast cancer that can predict whether the cancer will return after treatment—and which can be identified from routinely acquired tissue biopsy samples of early-stage breast cancer. The…
August 20, 2021
Stephen Sroka, adjunct assistant professor of medicine, received the Fellow Award from the American School Health Association. The organization is made up of administrators, counselors, dietitians, nutritionists, health educators, physical educators, psychologists, school health coordinators,…
August 20, 2021
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic have received a $1.77 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health. The principal investigators for the three-year grant include Marsha Michie, assistant…
August 20, 2021
Feixiong Cheng, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine, and Jessica Castrillon Lal, a PhD student, were awarded the Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Gilliam program supports promising graduate students who are historically…
August 16, 2021
The School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusive Excellence will host the final installment of the 2021 Summer Virtual Inclusive Talks and Lecture Series (VITALS) in August. The series will examine health disparities and the effects of COVID-19. Each talk will last for 45 minutes with 15…