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Medicine’s Siran Koroukian discusses how obesity can lead to cancer
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…
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Medicine’s Parameswaran Ramakrishnan gives presentation at 7th Global Diabetes Meeting
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…
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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…
Medicine’s Heather Broihier wins NIH award for mentorship
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Robert Bonomo, antibiotic resistance expert, awarded Distinguished University Professorship
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…
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Child development expert Lynn Singer awarded Distinguished University Professorship
Cocaine-exposed infants, children with chronic lung disease arising from prematurity, babies suffering from the effects of fetal exposure to the drug Ecstasy—all are benefitting from the scholar’s eye and compassionate heart of Lynn Singer, professor of population and quantitative health sciences,…
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Mentoring
We all talk about mentoring, but it’s not clear that we all mean the same thing by it. Do we mean mentoring or sponsoring? Do we mean a few words of advice here and there, or sustained interest in the mentee’s career, changing goals, and expectations, even if they are not what we would choose for…
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Medicine’s Neil S. Greenspan writes about misleading use of ‘superbug’
Neil S. Greenspan, professor of pathology, co-wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun titled “The problem with the ‘superbug’ label.” Arturo Casadevall, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was Greenspan’s co-author. The piece delineates the reasons why it is often misleading to…