School of Medicine
From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know how to make headlines.
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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
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November 11, 2020
The Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the School of Medicine will host an informational webinar and Q&A presentation with Jim Spilsbury, associate professor and co-director of the PhD in Clinical Translational Science program.
Attendees will learn about how the clinical r...
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November 11, 2020
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to learn how they can tailor their Master of Public Health degree with one of 11 dual-degree options.
A Master of Public Health webinar will be held Friday, Nov. 13, from noon to 1 p.m.
Attendees will discover the opportunities a...
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November 11, 2020
Are you seeking to bolster your credentials and preparation to apply to professional school? Join faculty, staff and students from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics for an informational webinar about Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's medical physiology program. This sess...
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November 11, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the ninth webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series Thursday, Nov. 12, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EST. This session is titled “Community Health Solutions: Overcoming Barr...
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November 11, 2020
Michael Saag
Michael Saag offers a unique perspective on COVID-19. Not only is Saag clinically engaged in the treatment of COVID patients at an outpatient clinic but he also contracted SARS-CoV-2 last March at a conference in Boston—offering the perspective of both a physician and patient.
And no...
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November 10, 2020
The School of Medicine's eighth annual "Seeds of Discovery" PhD White Lab Coat Ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. (EST). The purpose of this event is to publicly recognize and welcome the incoming class of students enteri...
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November 09, 2020
GIS Day is an annual event for students, staff, faculty and the broader community to learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to celebrate the power of geospatial analysis and visualization in answering research questions and solving real-world problems. This year, GIS Day is happen...
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November 06, 2020
Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies at the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of bioethics at the School of Medicine, recently wrote an article titled "Volunteering for a Covid Vaccine Trial: Fulfilling Hindu Obligations or Fostering Pharmaceutical Company Profits?"
Published by th...
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November 05, 2020
Lloyd Chen and Garrett Weskamp, members of the School of Medicine’s Class of 2023, recognize that when the term “LGBTQ+” is used, the “+” symbol represents a variety of genders and sexual orientations—and may obscure individuals’ unique experiences. One of those grouped communities is intersex, an u...
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November 04, 2020
Phase 3 clinical trial of AZD1222 uses a replication-deficient chimpanzee viral vector
University Hospitals (UH) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) announced recently that UH Cleveland Medical Center has been selected as a clinical trial site for the Phase 3 global study of an investigation...