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From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know how to make headlines.
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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
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February 20, 2020
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic use AI, radiological MRI scans, and genomics to determine relative life expectancy of glioblastoma patients
Glioblastoma is an aggressive, killer disease. While victims of this fast-moving brain tumor comprise only about 15% of all people with brain...
February 19, 2020
I returned this weekend from a business trip to a new coating of snow. Not just a dusting, but bona fide snow that glistened in the sun. It continued to snow, and in the evening it was still and soft and beautiful. And early Saturday morning, though I live on, at best, a secondary road, the plows s...
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February 19, 2020
Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine.
“I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and was...
February 11, 2020
Our School of Medicine recently joined the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIMH), becoming part of more than 70 highly esteemed academic medical centers and health systems across the U.S. Founded in 1999, the Consortium is committed to sharing information and ideas and supp...
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February 11, 2020
It is widely recognized that publishing improves teaching. Scholarly writing enables professors to bring up-to-date information into the classroom and share their research on cutting edge developments with their students. We are happy to announce that our faculty has been ranked among the top in th...
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February 11, 2020
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Cleveland Clinic
and Lifebanc (a Northeast Ohio organ-procurement organization) have developed a
new way to preserve donated kidneys—a method that could extend the number and
qual...
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February 10, 2020
Funeral services have been scheduled for Edward Regis McFadden Jr., professor emeritus of medicine at the School of Medicine and former chief of the pulmonary and critical care divisions at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and the MetroHealth System, who passed away Feb. 3.
Regis serve...
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February 10, 2020
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will host the annual Global Health Conference "Exploring the Ethics of Global Health Work." The event will take place Thursday, Feb. 20, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Samson Pavilion Room 181.
Two keynote speak...
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February 10, 2020
Stethos, the medical humanities journal of Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, is accepting submissions for its 10th issue.
Stethos provides a forum to showcase the diversity and creativity of students, faculty and interprofessional colleagues, and the editors hope to continue this traditi...
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February 10, 2020
Join us, Tuesday, February 11th, from 1-2:30 pm in the Freedman Center Collaboration Commons located on the first floor of KSL. Learn how to load, analyze and produce maps of census data in open-source software (QGIS). Laptops with preloaded software and data will be provided. This session is approp...