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Case Western Reserve University Researchers Turn Urine into Research Tools
One of the biggest challenges in studying Down syndrome is finding the right research model. Animals and established cell lines are limited in their ability to mimic human disease, and results don’t always translate to patient populations. Stem cells hold enormous potential as research tools that…
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Case Western Reserve, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein of São Paulo, Brazil, to hold health research and education symposium in Cleveland
Event will explore global health issues of importance Case Western Reserve University, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day…
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Newly discovered DNA enhancers help switch on colorectal cancer
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University has identified a pattern of clustered genetic changes that appear to encourage growth of colorectal cancer tumors—a finding that points to a promising potential target for drug development. In a study published in…
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In Defense of the NIH
It’s early in the budget process. Almost always, the President’s budget is modified in Congress. The current proposal will not stand. Nonetheless, it is still disheartening to learn of a budget that proposes a $5.8 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health—over 18% of its total. Over the…
Match Day 2017
It happened! Today, St. Patrick’s Day, our lucky medical students opened the envelopes (or received from the ether on their cell phones) their all-important MATCH. After much anticipation, these 196 young people now know where they will be spending at least the next year, and in most cases, the…
Students Find Their “Match”
At exactly 12:00 p.m. today, medical students from around the nation – including those at Case Western Reserve University – received envelopes in which they learned where they will spend the next years of their training. Top residency choices this year for Case Western Reserve medical students…
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U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings released
Thanks to gains in research and admissions, Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine maintained its top-25 position in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings. For several other programs, improvements in individual categories weren’t enough to avoid slight dips in their…
A Windy and Snowy Day
It’s windy and snowy again today. The temperature has swung wildly downward hitting sub-freezing temperatures after hitting unseasonable highs several times just a few days ago.  But they tell me that soon, it will swing back into more seasonal temperatures. It has also rained a good deal lately.…
US News & World Reports
US News and World Report declares us among the top 25 medical schools in the United States. We are pleased to be in such company and delighted to be acknowledged for our achievements as an outstanding institution of biomedical learning and discovery. Of course, rankings such as these can’t capture…
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Medicine’s Yoshikazu Imanishi honored for early-career success as a vision researcher
The Lighthouse Guild selected Yoshikazu Imanishi, assistant professor of pharmacology, for its 2017 Pisart Award. The Lighthouse Guild is a nonprofit vision and health care organization that aims to meet the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired. Since 1981, the Pisart Award has “has…