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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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February 21, 2020
Mark Chance, vice dean for research and director of the Center of Proteomics and Bioinformatics in the School of Medicine, recently provided witness testimony to a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives during the oversight hearing on the Department of Energy’s role in advancing medical…
February 20, 2020
The researchers used Artificial Intelligence (AI)—in this case, computer image analysis of the initial MRI scans taken of brain cancer patients—and compared that image analysis with genomic research to analyze the cancer. The result: a new and more accurate way to not only determine the relative…
February 20, 2020
Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article, “What Genetic Testing Teaches about Predictive Health Analytics Regulation.” The paper argues that like genetic testing, predictive health analytics raise significant concerns about psychological…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…