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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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January 03, 2020
Outlet: cleveland.com
January 03, 2020
Outlet: The Washington Post
January 02, 2020
Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from Case Western Reserve University will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to…
December 20, 2019
On a single summer day in 1990, Mahmoud Ghannoum’s life
changed completely. The research scientist was speaking at a conference in
Washington, D.C., while his wife and children continued their family vacation
in England. But then, on Aug. 2, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded
Kuwait. And…
December 20, 2019
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in…
December 17, 2019
There's still time to participate in the Art of STEM competition! Look at science and research from an artistic angle and share its inherent beauty with the world through digital images. Submit your image for the chance to win cash prizes and have your entry exhibited at Kelvin Smith Library.…
December 17, 2019
Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that
controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal
inflammation in a mouse model of…
December 13, 2019
Outlet: The Plain Dealer
December 13, 2019
It’s holiday party season and this weekend, I went to several. At one, I met a distinguished emeritus faculty member, Jim Sampliner, who has been battling cancer. The first thing he said to me was, “I finished my ninth cycle of chemo last week, so I’m ready to go back to substituting at least in…