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Recent News
August 24, 2015
The Case Western Reserve University chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will host a showing of Medical Research: Houston, We Have a Problem.
The event will take place today (Monday, Aug. 24) from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Biomedical Research Building, Room 105.
Food will be provided.
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August 21, 2015
Tolulope Rosanwo, a student in the School of Medicine, recently was selected to participate in the 2015 Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP).
The program is meant to increase interest among minority students in hematology. Over the course of a summer, the students must create a research p...
August 21, 2015
The School of Medicine awarded Robert Bucklew, outreach coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), with the 2014-2015 Joan Harris Staff Development Award.
The School of Medicine annually awards this honor to a non-faculty employee who d...
August 18, 2015
Universities Allied for Essential Medicine (UAEM) will host a recruiting event today (Aug. 18) from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the School of Medicine, Room E321/323.
UAEM is a student organization that seeks to improve access to medicine in low- and middle-income countries. Those who are interested in g...
August 17, 2015
Case Western Reserve discovery explains KLF4 and mitochondrial connection in heart failure
Case Western Reserve University scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria—the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, th...
August 17, 2015
The School of Medicine will present the Hanna Symposium Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 2 to 9 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building auditorium. Speakers at the symposium will focus on genome instability and evolution.
The symposium will feature the Hanna Lecture, given by Bernard Dujon, professor at P...
August 10, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.3 million to Case Western Reserve to lead a collaborative study of how changes in food options affect residents’ nutritional choices and health over time. Called the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (dubbed foodNEST), the three-year stu...
August 07, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the fall session of Mini Med School, presented by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school “for ...
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion dangerous infection in the feet and hands often occurring with uncontrolled diabetes. It appears that high blood sugar unleashes destructive molecules that interfere with the body’s natural infection-contr...
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve University’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the previous...