School of Medicine

To be presented with Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain during ACC’s 70th Annual Scientific Session & Expo Sanjay Rajagopalan Sanjay Rajagopalan has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for his con...

The School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences will host an information session about the opportunities a Master of Public Health degree focused on health care management offers. This presentation and Q&A session will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, from noon to 1 p....

The Swetland Center for Environmental Health will host its February seminar, titled “Development of Innovative Curriculum on Climate Change for First-Year Medical Students,” Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 9 to 10 a.m. Numerous medical and health associations, governmental and non-governmental agencies have...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Cleveland Clinic's Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD as he was awarded a 2020 V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research for his proposal, "Chromatin Dysfunction Identifies Metabolic Regulators as Potential Therapeutic Targets in...

Lina Mehta, associate dean for admissions at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was recently appointed to serve a three-year term as chair of the National Committee on Admissions (COA). The National Committee on Admissions functions as an advisory committee to the Group on Student...

Join the School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences to learn more about biostatistics in a webinar featuring alumni faculty. This session will be held Sunday, Feb. 14, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mendel Singer, associate professor and vice chair for education in the ...

The Program in Cell Biology at the School of Medicine and the Department of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences will host the annual “The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Science: What Were They Given For?” symposium today (Feb. 11) from 4 to 5 p.m. Attendees will learn about the research that earned t...

Work has potential implications for new therapies to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has found a way to measure key characteristics of proteins that bind to RNA in cells—a discovery that could improve our understanding of how gene f...

Research documents more cases, hospitalizations and deaths, with odds of both infection and worse outcomes higher for African Americans A study led by Case Western Reserve University researchers found that patients with dementia were at a significantly increased risk for COVID-19—and the risk was h...

Research into stopping tumor growth was recently featured in BBC Science Focus Magazine as one of the world's "20 moments in 2020 to be excited about." A compound that activates an enzyme capable of suppressing tumors was discovered by a cross-institutional team from the University of Michigan and C...