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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 16, 2019
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…
January 15, 2019
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…
January 09, 2019
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…
January 08, 2019
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…
January 04, 2019
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…
December 30, 2018
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…
December 21, 2018
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…
December 20, 2018
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…
December 17, 2018
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing team up to fight common cause of death in HIV patients
A team of nurses and physicians has received a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to extend traditional…
December 14, 2018
Representatives from several Case Western Reserve University departments and schools attended the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis Nov. 14-17. The representatives were from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry departments, the School of…