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From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know how to make headlines.
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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
April 14, 2016
The Cleveland Medical Library Association’s annual seminar will address pharmaceutical policy Thursday, April 21, at 6 p.m. in the Ford Auditorium of the Allen Memorial Medical Library.
Jeremy Greene, associate professor of medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair of the Histor...
April 12, 2016
More than 1,000 stakeholders and community members are expected to visit Research ShowCASE April 15 to see the latest innovations from faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University. Among them: Four of the university’s most prominent researchers, who will be recognized as Faculty Distingui...
March 31, 2016
Developmental psychologist Maria Pagano, PhD, found adolescents with severe alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems have a low regard for others, as indicated by higher rates of driving under the influence and having unprotected sex with a history of sexually transmitted disease. The findings also sho...
March 31, 2016
Last spring, Professor Mark Griswold told a global audience about the potential of Microsoft HoloLens to transform learning.
Twelve months later, Griswold showed the world exactly how—or at least his hologram did.
Speaking at Microsoft’s annual Build conference for the second consecutive year, Gri...
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March 16, 2016
Case Western Reserve placed three degree programs in the nation’s top 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of graduate programs released today. The university also saw its health law program stay in the top 10, and the medical school stay in the top 25.
The Frances Payne Bolton School of...
March 15, 2016
Eight of Case Western Reserve University’s health care experts—with fields ranging from neurology to dental medicine—earned spots on this year’s Crain’s Cleveland Business 2016 Health Care Heroes list for excellence in their fields.
The recognition “puts the spotlight on those working each day to i...
March 11, 2016
Guest Author: Li Li, MD, PhD
Earlier this week the National Cancer Institute released The Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer (1975-2012). While this report shows a continuing trend of decline of mortality for most cancers for both men and women, thanks largely to progress in prevention an...
March 11, 2016
Malaria, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia targeted
Three Case Western Reserve University faculty members have received grants to advance technologies designed to provide earlier diagnoses of malaria, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia.
Brian T. Grimberg, assistant professor of international...
March 04, 2016
Guest Author: Neal Meropol, MD
Timely (within 24 months of completion) reporting of the results of clinical trials in ClinicalTrials.gov is a federal mandate. Case Western Reserve University was found to be a top performer in a recent study of all clinical trials (not just cancer) listed on this si...
March 01, 2016
An international team led by Case Western Reserve researchers has discovered a way to treat abnormalities in fetal brain development in mice that eliminates the animals’ symptoms of neurological disorders in adulthood.
The study, which began when two of the key researchers now at Case Western Reser...