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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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October 19, 2020
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine seek to optimize emerging methods of diagnosing two common neurodegenerative diseases—dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia—that affect 1.4 million in the United States With a $5.5 million, five-year award from…
October 19, 2020
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a documentary screening of Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision Monday, Oct. 26, at 6 p.m. EDT via Zoom. Following the screening, film director Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon and Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and…
October 16, 2020
Tackling parental concerns about chemicals in vaccines and the home Contemporary Pediatrics: Aparna Bole, associate professor in the School of Medicine, discussed how the complicated regulation of chemicals in the United States can potentially expose children to chemicals, including cleaning…
October 16, 2020
Outlet: Contemporary Pediatrics
October 16, 2020
Joseph C. LaManna, the Jeannette M. and Joseph S. Silber Professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, was inducted as a fellow of the American Physiological Society. The rank of fellow is reserved to honor distinguished leaders who have demonstrated excellence in science, have made…
October 16, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the sixth webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis Friday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EST. This session will be titled “Where’s the Data: Mortality, Treatment…
October 13, 2020
Outlet: Medium
October 13, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University Biomedical Sciences Training Program (BSTP) invites the CWRU community to join the director of the program, George Dubyak, to learn about the umbrella program that offers a common entry point to most of the BSTP biomedical PhD programs. The program identifies…
October 13, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University Post-baccalaureate Readiness Instruction for bioMedical Education (PRIME) program invites the CWRU community to join the director of the program, Anthony Saar, in learning about the post-baccalaureate path to medical school. The PRIME information session will…
October 12, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread, concerns about where and when it is safe to leave home may cause fear, frustration and fatigue. Part of that frustration may come from not having a quick, reliable source for accurate, up-to-date information on virus outbreaks. That need inspired a team of two…