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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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July 08, 2019
By combining two well-established antibiotics for the first time, a scientific team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has delivered a “double whammy” against the pervasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially deadly form of…
July 02, 2019
Outlet: The Scientist
July 02, 2019
Drug activates sensory proteins in aquatic model of human hearing The ability to hear depends on proteins to reach the outer membrane of sensory cells in the inner ear. But in certain types of hereditary hearing loss, mutations in the protein prevent it from reaching these membranes. Using a…
July 01, 2019
Outlet: NPR
July 01, 2019
Outlet: The Columbus Dispatch
July 01, 2019
Created and managed by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers, Pathogens and Immunity is an open access journal that publishes original research, reviews and commentaries. The journal launched in May 2016, and focuses on pathogens, host defenses and other clinically relevant…
June 25, 2019
Our new medical students arrive in a few short weeks and our graduate students will start at various times throughout the summer. All our students possess the intellectual capability to succeed. What we provide is a challenging curriculum to train their minds. But equally important is what we…
June 25, 2019
More than 125 million people
worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many are exposed to relatively common
bacteria through their contact lenses, not all contract an eye infection. Researchers at the
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland
Medical Center…
June 19, 2019
Probiotic found to help weaken stubborn microbial biofilm communities in the gut that can worsen symptoms Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial…