School of Medicine

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…

$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…

Outlet: Neuron

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…

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…

Outlet: Crain's Cleveland

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…

Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, associate professor at the School of Medicine, wrote a letter to the editor addressing menthol-flavored tobacco products that target African-Americans. Her piece, titled “Crack down on menthol-flavored tobacco products geared to African-Americans,” was published on…

Neil Greenspan, professor of pathology, and Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University co-authored a piece for The Scientist titled “We need more than new antibiotics to fight resistance.” Their commentary provided a rationale for biomedical scientists to explore and develop a variety of…

Wenquan Zou, an expert in degenerative neurological diseases, along with collaborators Shu G. Chen, also from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Jiyan Ma, from Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas Beach, from Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City,…