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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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July 29, 2020
From trying to understand lung immunity in COVID-19 patients to recognizing the impact the pandemic has had on mental health, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and affiliated health care systems have joined forces to expand and improve research on the virus in the community and beyond.…
July 27, 2020
Case Western Reserve University researchers work to understand link between HIV and lung cancer cleveland.com: Ge Jin, professor at the School of Dental Medicine, and Bingcheng Wang, the John A. and Josephine B. Wootton Endowed Chair of Research and professor at the School of Medicine, discussed…
July 27, 2020
Cancer researchers Alex Huang, Reshmi Parameswaran and Yamilet Huerta have been awarded $315,000 in grants from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to conduct research of new immunotherapy treatments for pediatric cancers. Alex Huang Huang, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University…
July 24, 2020
As we continue through this extraordinarily challenging year, there are times when most of us—faculty, staff and students—have become deeply affected by the events through which we are living. Significant stressors include the uncertainty surrounding the worldwide pandemic along with feelings of…
July 24, 2020
This information applies only to Kelvin Smith Library. The service information may vary for the other campus libraries (Health Sciences, Law, and Mandel School). Welcome back to the Kelvin Smith Library. Our highest priorities are to ensure your health and safety and to provide a warm, inviting…
July 24, 2020
Darin Croft, professor of anatomy, worked with Guillermo López of the Museo de La Plata in Argentina to co-edit a special annual issue of the journal Ameghiniana. The issue focused on extinct mammals and included eight articles, most of which were presented at a 2018 symposium in Colombia organized…
July 24, 2020
Sichun Yang, associate professor in the School of Medicine, collaborated with Pau Bernado of CNRS France to organize a special issue in the Journal of Molecular Biology. The issue, titled “Integrative Biophysics: Protein Interaction and Disorder,” represents a special collection of original…
July 23, 2020
Alumnus’s research into a 1918 pandemic helps shape public understanding today This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social media accounts in…
July 21, 2020
Case Western Reserve University will offer a new bachelor of science degree in neuroscience beginning fall semester 2020. Developed jointly by the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, the undergraduate program is…