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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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September 21, 2020
“Health Care Cleveland—COVID, 2020 and Beyond” offers panel discussions on how Northeast Ohio’s medical communities have managed the COVID-19 pandemic and other pressing health care issues On Sept. 29, the first presidential debate in advance of the November election will be held at Cleveland…
September 21, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the fourth webinar in their Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series. Held Thursday, Sept. 24, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EST, the topic of the webinar will be “Substance Use, Stigma,…
September 21, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will host a forum titled “COVID-19 Collaboration: Shared Hospital and Public Health Efforts to Care for Greater Cleveland” ahead of the first presidential debate. The forum will be held Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 9 a.m. EDT. It will cover the…
September 18, 2020
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September 18, 2020
National Institutes of Health awards $420,000 to multidisciplinary team from Case Western Reserve University developing device for instantly detecting oral cancer Mouth lesions are among the main early indicators of oral cancer, but determining whether a sore is actually malignant typically…
September 18, 2020
Kishore Guda, associate professor in the School of Medicine, had a study published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology titled “Genome-Scale Analysis Identifies Novel Transcript-Variants in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.” Guda and his team members used genome-scale analysis to…
September 17, 2020
Join the Kelvin Smith Library for a Virtual Library Resources Lab on Wednesday, September 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. The Virtual Library Resources Lab will feature Science, Engineering and Entrepreneurship Resources. Talk and meet live with database representatives and Kelvin Smith librarians to learn…
September 17, 2020
A Case Comprehensive Cancer-led team has secured $10.4 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to explore at the molecular level the differences in glioblastoma between males and females. The researchers will delve into the genetics, epigenetics and…
September 17, 2020
Research consortium led by Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University A team led by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute has secured $10.4 million over five years from the National…
September 17, 2020
Under the auspices of the Office of the Provost’s Northstar Experiences, the international studies honor society, Sigma Iota Rho, and the International Studies Program will host an interactive workshop titled “Addressing Illegal Drug Use” Saturday, Sept. 26, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The session will be…