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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 27, 2020
Outlet: GeekWire
August 27, 2020
Luminary Therapeutics (Luminary Tx) and Case Western Reserve University have entered into a formal collaboration agreement that includes an option for Luminary to exclusively license a novel BAFF target for use in CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) constructs. The BAFF target was discovered…
August 26, 2020
Outlet: News 5 Cleveland
August 26, 2020
Outlet: USA Today
August 25, 2020
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library is now accepting applications for Digital Scholarship Grants for the 2020-2021 academic year. This newly created grant program targets scholars who are not eligible for the Freedman Fellows Faculty or Student programs. In…
August 25, 2020
Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work. His breakthrough happened early, as a graduate student at Washington University in the mid-1970s. His first publication reporting the initial example of the…
August 24, 2020
Outlet: Pharmacy Times
August 23, 2020
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August 21, 2020
Members of the community are invited to tune into the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and Opioid Crisis Series of webinars this fall. The series will begin Aug. 22 and run through November. Co-hosted by CWRU School of Medicine and the CWRU Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, this…
August 21, 2020
Amy G. Hise, associate professor in the Department of Pathology at the School of Medicine, received the Exceptional Mentor Award from the American Medical Women's Association. This annual award recognizes the impact of a mentor on the nominator's career. Learn more about the award.