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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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August 28, 2020
Uma Mahajan, a first-year student at the School of Medicine, and Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, assistant dean of students, published an article titled “Racial demographics and COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths: a correlational analysis of 2886 US counties.” The article is nationwide study examining…
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: USA Today
August 26, 2020
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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…