School of Medicine

Monday is Martin Luther King Day in America. Though much has improved in our country for African Americans since his tragic assassination in 1968 – the year that so much changed – we still live in a world where serious health disparities persist, and we have too few tools to combat them. As Dr.…

Results in mouse sepsis model lay foundation for clinical trials Biochemists, microbiologists, drug discovery experts and infectious disease doctors have teamed up in a new study that shows antibiotics are not always necessary to cure sepsis in mice. Instead of killing causative bacteria with…

Only Ohio institution to receive funding all three years The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University its third $500,000 grant since 2016 for the CWRU Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund Program (CTP), a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty…

Bioethics of brain organoids to be explored by team led by CWRU researcher Insoo Hyun Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular and developmental intricacies of the human brain using bioengineered stem cell-based models called organoids. But the…

Case Western Reserve researchers uncover novel drug targets by piecing together receptor structures Many breast cancer drugs block estrogen receptors inside cancer cells. Blocking the receptors early in disease progression staves off metastasis. But most patients with advanced disease eventually…

John “Chip” Tilton, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will receive $300,000 from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust to develop a virus-based “nanoPOD” (nanoscale PrOtein Delivery) platform to help treat rare genetic diseases. Tilton is associate professor…

Ashwini Sehgal, the Duncan Neuhauser Professor of Community Health Improvement and director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, wrote about concerns related to the increasing number of uninsured Ohioans. Sehgal’s op-ed, “The number of Ohioans without health coverage is rising as attacks…

Year’s end puts us in a reflective mood… we consider what we have accomplished and the opportunities before us. This has been a year of celebration of our 175th anniversary as a school of medicine as well as of remarkable achievements by our faculty and students.  Our MD program, only one year…

The School of Medicine Staff Awards were recently presented to four staff members in honor of their contributions to the school during the 2017-18 academic year. A reception was held in October. Joan Harris Staff Development Award The School of Medicine named Ginny Petrie the recipient of the…

Promising results provide hope for humans suffering from chronic paralysis Millions of people worldwide are living with chronic spinal cord injuries, with 250,000 to 500,000 new cases each year—most from vehicle crashes or falls. The most severe spinal cord injuries completely paralyze their…