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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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April 20, 2018
I-Corps@Ohio program aims to advance research into products for medical treatments or surgeries Four medical-technology research teams at Case Western Reserve University will participate in focused entrepreneurial training through I-Corps@Ohio, an Ohio Department of Higher Education initiative…
April 19, 2018
On Saturday morning, April 7, a group of Bolton Middle School 7th grade students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District came to the CWRU School of Medicine for a lively three-hour experience, "Learn to Beat Cancer," sponsored by the CWRU Center for Science, Health & Society and the Case…
April 18, 2018
Case Western Reserve named among The Hartwell Foundation's Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research Inborn errors of metabolism are rare single gene defects that involve mutations of enzyme proteins in key metabolic pathways. Many mutations are lethal to children at birth or in early childhood and…
April 13, 2018
What is our medical school worth? For many of us, it is priceless. It’s not easy putting a price tag on producing physicians who care for patients and families, or supporting research scientists who develop new treatments and diagnoses for disease. And it’s equally difficult to assess the economic…
April 13, 2018
Research is at the core of Case Western Reserve University, and our faculty make groundbreaking discoveries and inventions every day. Across the university, faculty members solve important problems, advance new technologies, and pave the way in emerging industries. In recognition of such…
April 12, 2018
Obesity can also alter a young person’s likelihood of developing cancer later in life A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis…
April 11, 2018
Katherine Dobbs, MD Across the world, over 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the disease occur annually—more than 90 percent of which happen in Africa. Children in Africa can be diagnosed with malaria two or three times a year, a rate that decreases as they…
April 11, 2018
The Cleveland Medical Library Association's 2018 annual lecture, titled "By Any Other Name: How Medical Humanities and Bioethics are Reshaping Medical School Curricula—A Panel Discussion," will take place Thursday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in Allen Memorial Medical Library, Ford Auditorium. Designed…
March 30, 2018
Ali Mchaourab, associate professor of anesthesiology, co-wrote a piece for cleveland.com detailing measures taken at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, where he is chief of pain medicine, to avoid opioid addiction. In the piece, titled “Emulate VA transparency to reduce opioid…
March 28, 2018
Alpha Omega Alpha will host its annual visiting professorship lecture, featuring Amy Abernethy, Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Robbins Building, Room E401. Abernethy will present "Observations from the Interface of Medicine & Tech: Leading through Influence and…