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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…
David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com (right photo)
Research paper from CWRU School of Medicine awarded 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Recent News
October 29, 2019
Alumni weekend was a smashing success. It was chaired by two of our faculty, David Rosenberg and Abby Abelson. The enthusiasm was palpable. A record number of alumni came for the presentation on a day in the life of a medical student that underlined how large a part technology plays in our…
October 25, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Halle Moore, MD, as earlier this week she was named director of breast medical oncology and co-director for the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Moore joined Cleveland Clinic in 1999 and will assume her new…
October 25, 2019
Beginning last week, those who purchase tobacco products in Ohio must be 21 years old—bumping the minimum age up from 18. But Cleveland was ahead of the curve, when in 2016, the city enacted a law requiring those who purchase such products to be 21. One of Erika Trapl’s defining career moments was…
October 25, 2019
Elaine A. Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition, recently co-wrote a piece published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. Titled “Measuring quality and outcomes of research…
October 25, 2019
In August, researchers from the Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration in Kampala, Uganda, hosted a group of six health policy advisors and counsel or legislative aides for six U.S. senators, including the office of Sen. Robert Portman from Ohio, and representatives from the Global Health Technologies…
October 24, 2019
Grant award provides new discovery pathway for MSTP students to translate promising scientific discoveries into medicines Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently announced a new program to help the next generation of…
October 22, 2019
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center researcher receives NIH funding to investigate Scientists have known that bacteria in the gut, along with environmental and genetic factors, contribute to the debilitating intestinal ailment of Crohn’s…
October 18, 2019
Nora L. Nock, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, was appointed to the inaugural Statistical Review Board (SRB) of the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) journals Aug. 1. Members of the SRB will provide evaluations of statistical methods and…
October 16, 2019
Leading community organizations will convene an action summit in Cleveland to call out racism as a public health crisis Nov. 8–9 at Public Auditorium (500 Lakeside Ave. E.). Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the event, titled “400 Years of Inequity: A Call to…
October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at Case Western Reserve Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups. His curiosity, fueled…