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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
Recent News
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April 04, 2017
A massive new study involving blood samples from more than 30,000 individuals has identified 13 new genetic risk factors for glioma, the most common type of malignant brain tumor in adults.
The study, published in Nature Genetics, reveals specific differences in a person’s DNA that increase suscept...
April 03, 2017
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer dream team that was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C. The dream team comprises scientists, cl...
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April 01, 2017
The Office of Undergraduate Studies will host a pre-law panel discussion focused on health law Friday, April 7, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356.
This Pre-Law Community Hour event is titled “At the Intersection of Law and Medicine.”
The panelists will be:
Jonathan D. Mester, par...
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March 30, 2017
Join the American Medical Student Association for a discussion about what it’s like to be a physician.
Robyn Strosaker, vice president and chief medical officer of the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, will give a talk Tuesday, April 4, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Cent...
March 29, 2017
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and MetroHealth System researcher, along with Cleveland Clinic’s director of metabolic research, have received federal funding to determine if childhood obesity can be prevented before women become pregnant.
The first-ever Cleveland-based study w...
March 28, 2017
One of the biggest challenges in studying Down syndrome is finding the right research model. Animals and established cell lines are limited in their ability to mimic human disease, and results don’t always translate to patient populations. Stem cells hold enormous potential as research tools that ca...
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March 28, 2017
Event will explore global health issues of importance
Case Western Reserve University, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day symposiu...
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March 22, 2017
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University has identified a pattern of clustered genetic changes that appear to encourage growth of colorectal cancer tumors—a finding that points to a promising potential target for drug development.
In a study published in Natu...
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March 20, 2017
It’s early in the budget process. Almost always, the President’s budget is modified in Congress. The current proposal will not stand.
Nonetheless, it is still disheartening to learn of a budget that proposes a $5.8 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health—over 18% of its total. Over the yea...
March 17, 2017
At exactly 12:00 p.m. today, medical students from around the nation – including those at Case Western Reserve University – received envelopes in which they learned where they will spend the next years of their training.
Top residency choices this year for Case Western Reserve medical students incl...