School of Medicine
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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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
December 09, 2019
The 35th annual Doc Opera will be held Saturday, Dec. 14, from 6 to 10 p.m. at John Hay High School. Doc Opera is an annual variety show written by, directed by and starring students from various Case Western Reserve University graduate programs, including many students from the School of Medicine…
December 06, 2019
Four members of the Case Western Reserve University community were selected for cleveland.com’s Homegrown Heroes honor, which recognized individuals who are making an economic impact in Cleveland. They are: Jill Byrne, a PhD candidate in nursing, in the medical innovation category;Anant…
December 06, 2019
Paul Tesar, a professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, was named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty under 40 honorees. Tesar, who received his undergraduate degree in biology from Case Western Reserve University and his PhD from the University of…
December 03, 2019
Pamela B. Davis, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions…
December 02, 2019
$30M contract will establish TB immunology research centers across the country Tuberculosis (TB) is the No. 1 cause of death from an infectious disease in the world: In 2017, the most recent data available, 10 million people developed TB and 1.6 million died. Today, nearly 1.7 billion people…
November 25, 2019
Findings may lead to clues for possible treatments for autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine have identified that a gene critical to clearing up unnecessary
proteins plays a role in brain development and contributes to the…
November 21, 2019
Extra DNA scooped up and copied alongside cancer-causing genes helps keep tumors going—elements that could represent new drug targets for brain tumors and other cancers notoriously difficult to treat One of the ways a
cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a…
November 19, 2019
Outlet: Crain's Cleveland
November 19, 2019
Commitment comes as three schools' students come together in newly opened Health Education Campus—expressly designed to advance interprofessional education Tenelle Clark, a first-generation college student from Summit
County with an undergraduate degree in nursing, didn’t even consider…