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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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April 24, 2017
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…
April 20, 2017
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,…
April 17, 2017
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,…
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…