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CWRU Athletes in Medicine: The power of peer mentorship
Balancing the demands of athletics with the rigorous path toward a career in medicine is a uniquely challenging—and rewarding—experience. At Case Western Reserve University, a new student-led mentorship initiative is working to make that journey more supportive and sustainable for pre-med student…
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Research paper from CWRU School of Medicine awarded 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Recent News
January 27, 2020
Created by Case Western Reserve University researchers, the drug will be tested in healthy volunteers at Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis A new drug that could make it easier for doctors to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) in its earlier stages has been approved for its first…
January 24, 2020
Outlet: US News & World Report
January 23, 2020
Robert Bonomo, professor of medicine, pharmacology, molecular biology and microbiology at the School of Medicine and a Distinguished University Professor, will receive the 2020 Mark Wolcott Award for Excellence in Clinical Leadership from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs during a ceremony in…
January 22, 2020
Congratulations to first-year law students Sierra Lipscomb and Makela Hayford for a fantastic finish at the 1L Law Student Diversity Case Competition hosted by the University of Cincinnati College of Law and Keating Muething & Klekamp. Lipscomb and Hayford placed third out of 18 teams from eight…
January 21, 2020
Case
Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers say newly found
protein is bio-marker for disease; suggest suppression of ‘aggregatin’ could
lead to future treatments to slow Alzheimer’s progression Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine say they have…
January 20, 2020
Professor Max Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently co-authored an article in the Pathogens and Immunity journal with Dr. Michael Lederman, titled, “Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do.” The article examines potential legal remedies to…
January 17, 2020
Outlet: National Cancer Institute - Cancer Currents
January 17, 2020
This weekend saw the wide publication of the good news that for 2017, the death rate from cancer actually fell. There was double good news because one of the most deadly cancers – cancer of the lung – led the decline. New insights into the commonalities inherent in cancers that are more determined…
January 16, 2020
Outlet: ideastream
January 15, 2020
A
$1 million, two-year grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research
Trust will allow researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s
disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an…