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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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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
September 19, 2019
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center director elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 54 academic inventors to the Spring 2019 class of NAI Senior Members, including Stanton L. Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators from its Member…
September 09, 2019
Universities must teach their budding scientists entrepreneurship The Conversation: Christopher Cullis, the Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, co-wrote an article about the need to address the gap between research and commercialization around the world, and how introducing science…
September 09, 2019
Cadavers get new life in unique medical curriculum in US CGTN: Janet Adegboye, a student at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Neil Mehta, associate dean of curricular affairs at the Lerner College, talked about the opportunities that exist in medical education using technology like…
September 09, 2019
Outlet: The Plain Dealer
September 09, 2019
Outlet: Science Daily
September 09, 2019
As Americans get heavier, obesity-linked cancers may strike earlier Reuters: Siran Koroukian, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, discussed how obesity can lead to cancer, and how weight loss can help mitigate the risk that those who are obese…
September 06, 2019
Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology
and biochemistry, gave a presentation titled “Novel Molecular Target and Therapeutics for Autoimmune Diabetes” at the
7th Global Diabetes Meeting in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Ramakrishnan was awarded first position in oral…
September 03, 2019
Neurosciences’ Heather Broihier earns National Institutes of Health honor for outstanding mentorship
Heather Broihier already felt indebted to legendary
neurobiologist Story Landis for her scientific success. After all, Landis founded Case Western Reserve University’s
Department of Neurosciences, Broihier’s professional home since 2005. Landis
also recruited Lynn Landmesser, the chair who hired…
September 01, 2019
Outlet: Crain's Cleveland
August 28, 2019
Antibiotic resistance, which develops when harmful bacteria and other damaging microorganisms become resistant to the antibiotics that once killed them, threatens to undo many of the powerful health gains achieved by the use of antibiotics. The problem arises from overuse and misuse of antibiotics…