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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
Recent News
April 17, 2017
The Case Western Reserve University Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) chapter will host Gurpreet Dhaliwa, professor of medicine at the University of California—San Francisco, for the AOA Visiting Professorship Lecture. Dhaliwa will present "Nobody Cares How Much You Know..." Wednesday, April 26, at 4 p.m.…
April 13, 2017
The Trump administration has proposed cutting $5.8 billion—19 percent—from the National Institutes of Health’s 2018 budget. One of the stated aims of the reduction is to improve administrative efficiency by eliminating a large portion of indirect or “overhead” payments to universities and other…
April 11, 2017
Bottom Line: Researchers discovered three novel genetic mutations associated with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, the most common corneal disorder requiring transplantation. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Nature Communications Author: Sudha K. Iyengar, PhD, Professor of…
April 11, 2017
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a breakthrough, noninvasive technique to develop stem cells strongly relevant to the study of Down syndrome. Writing in the journal STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, the researchers detail their development of an…
April 10, 2017
Recently, I reread the books of Lewis Thomas, MD. These beautiful collections of essays, many originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine as “Notes of a Biology Watcher,” are lyrical reflections on the human condition and the high position of medicine and science therein. Dr.…
April 07, 2017
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University had an article titled “Crystal structure and dynamics of a lipid-induced potential desensitized-state of a pentameric ligand-gated channel” published in eLIFE. The authors were: Sandip Basak, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of…
April 07, 2017
Why do humans get bunions? Or carpal tunnel syndrome? Separate research led by two Case Western Reserve University students recently published in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, have proposed that these uniquely human maladies are understandable in the context of human’s…
April 07, 2017
The School of Medicine will host a lecture with Harvey Lodish, professor of biology and biological engineering at MIT and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Lodish will present "Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Tuesday, April 18, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Tinkham…
April 05, 2017
A light-sensing pigment found in everything from bacteria to vertebrates can be biochemically manipulated to reset itself, an important therapeutic advantage, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In a study just released from the Proceedings of the…
April 04, 2017
New study also provides drug screening platform for broad therapeutic development A multi-institutional team led by researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have grown stem cells from children with a devastating neurological disease to help explain how different genetic…