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School of Medicine part-time master's programs lunch-and-learn
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…
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Science Café Cleveland: "The Illusion of Harmlessness: Misconceptions and Realities of Antibiotic Use"
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…
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CWRU’s Martin Basch receives prestigious Hartwell Foundation award for research on congenital deafness
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…
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Five faculty members selected for Faculty Distinguished Research Award
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,…
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Case Western Reserve embarks on innovative path to treat infections of drug-resistant superbugs such as MRSA without antibiotics
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,…
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AOA Visiting Professorship Lecture: "Nobody Cares How Much You Know..."
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.…
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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…
New Study Quadruples Known Genetic Risk Factors for Fuchs Dystrophy
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…
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Case Western Reserve University researchers develop breakthrough technique to advance Down syndrome research
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…
Inspired by Lewis Thomas, MD
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.…