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CWRU Athletes in Medicine: The power of peer mentorship
Balancing the demands of athletics with the rigorous path toward a career in medicine is a uniquely challenging—and rewarding—experience. At Case Western Reserve University, a new student-led mentorship initiative is working to make that journey more supportive and sustainable for pre-med student…
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Research paper from CWRU School of Medicine awarded 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
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May 15, 2017
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Lung cancer tumors were prevented in mice by a novel small molecule that directly activates a tumor suppressor protein. Journal in Which the Study was Published:
The Journal of Clinical Investigation Author:
Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, Pardee-Gerstacker Professor in Cancer Research,…
May 15, 2017
Alex Huang, associate professor of pediatrics, pathology, biomedical engineering and general medical sciences in the School of Medicine, knows firsthand the value of mentoring. At age 14, he moved with his family from Taiwan to Chicago. One of his earliest mentors was his high school physics…
May 12, 2017
Loretta Szczotka-Flynn, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, was named the 2017 Ohio State College of Optometry Alumni Society’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Szczotka-Flynn was honored at the Class of 2017 convocation, where she gave words of advice to the…
May 04, 2017
Also receives major grant from Stand Up to Cancer to “starve cancer cells to death” 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 in April at the annual meeting of the American…
May 03, 2017
The Consortium for Health, Humanities and Social Medicine of Northeast Ohio will hold its second gathering Thursday, May 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. All scholars in the Northeast Ohio region interested in medical humanities and medical social sciences are…
May 02, 2017
Case Western Reserve University employees are invited to a lunch-and-learn session to find out how they can use tuition benefits to earn a master’s degree from the School of Medicine. This session will be held Wednesday, May 17, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building, Room…
May 01, 2017
The rise of antibiotic resistance is an evolving global public-health crisis. Each year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause over 2.5 million infections and 23,000 deaths. Research suggests that while the American public understands that antibiotic misuse contributes to antibiotic resistance, many…
April 24, 2017
In the United States, almost three of every 1,000 children are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. An early-stage researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is receiving a major grant to help address the problem in an innovative way. Martin…
April 20, 2017
As an integral part of the fabric that defines Case Western Reserve, university-based research continues to result in groundbreaking discoveries in everything from law to management to medicine and beyond. Each year, the university community celebrates the many scholarly pursuits of students,…
April 17, 2017
School of Medicine’s biochemistry department team, in partnership with Q2 Pharma, to develop antivirulence agents that disarm bacteria of deadly toxins Case Western Reserve University and Q2 Pharma Ltd., an Israeli biopharmaceutical company, have signed a two-year option to license small molecule,…