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
Recent News
November 03, 2020
This past month I had the opportunity to Zoom dialogue with each of the departments of the School of Medicine. I tried to set the stage with a few concepts but mostly wanted to listen to each of you. Here are some of the things that I learned.
COVID-19 occupies our day every day and influences eve...
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November 03, 2020
Program: MD-PhD (PhD in Genetics) Year in program: Second-year
The death of a loved one can be a life-altering experience. When second-year MD/PhD student Bijou Basu’s grandfather passed away earlier this year, it left her pondering approaches to end-of-life care and, ultimately, led her to launch ...
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November 03, 2020
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) will host the November installment of its Seminar Series Wednesday, Nov. 11, at noon via Zoom. Shari Bolen, associate professor of medicine in the Department of Population and Qualitative Health Sciences, director of Population Health ...
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November 03, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will be hosting the eighth webinar in its fall webinar series, Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis, Thursday, Nov. 5, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. (EST). The topic of this webinar will be “Beyond Ma...
October 30, 2020
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October 30, 2020
Several medical students at Case Western Reserve University recently wrote an opinion piece discussing problems in the U.S. health care system.
In their piece, published in Septembr by USA Today, Rohit Anana, Dhiksha Balaji, Aparna Narendrula and Jasmine Serpen elaborated on health inequities perp...
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October 29, 2020
Members of the community are invited to “Outbreak! A Classroom Simulation Of A Unified Response To A Progressing Epidemic” Monday, Nov. 16, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET.
This webinar will discuss an interprofessional education (IPE) experience that provides students from public health, medicine, pharm...
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October 28, 2020
Researchers with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) have secured $5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish an HIV-associated Malignancy Research Center (HAM...
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October 28, 2020
Pidgeon Pagonis, co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, will lead a series of virtual events focused on intersex advocacy Nov. 5–6. Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. People can be born with these differences or develop them in childhood. Interse...
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October 27, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the seventh webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series Thursday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. (EST). This installment is titled “Addressing Social Determinants of Heal...