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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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Cleveland research team identifies key driver of age-related cognitive decline
Researchers from University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA published preclinical results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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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…
August 28, 2019
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,…
August 26, 2019
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…
August 23, 2019
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…