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From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know how to make headlines.
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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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April 14, 2015
Award follows creation of regional collaborative to advance research
A surgical sedative may hold the key to reversing the devastating symptoms of a neurodevelopmental disorder found almost exclusively in females. Ketamine, used primarily for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse mod...
April 14, 2015
The Hartwell Foundation has presented a 2014 Individual Biomedical Research Award to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher Brian A. Cobb, to support his efforts to prevent or reverse asthma.
Cobb, an associate professor of pathology, will receive a total of $300,000 during t...
April 13, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists collaborate with China’s Lanzhou University investigators in exploring the dual-compound strategy
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The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even great...
April 10, 2015
Alberto Costa, professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, reviewed a study titled, “Intracellular chloride accumulation: a possible mechanism for cognitive deficits in Down syndrome” in the April issue of Nature Medicine.
The study, involving a mouse model of Down syndrome and analysis of h...
April 10, 2015
Graduate and professional students at Case Western Reserve University are much more than just students. They’re researchers, teachers and leaders.
Through their efforts in their research, graduate and professional students make new breakthroughs in their fields. The organizations they lead improve ...
April 06, 2015
From social sciences to social work, management to medicine, and biology to biomedical engineering, research is at the heart of Case Western Reserve University. In fact, this past fiscal year alone, researchers earned 1,623 sponsored research awards, totaling more than $311 million.
Faculty across ...
April 03, 2015
After discovering a unique group of people resistant to tuberculosis (TB) infection, Case Western Reserve researchers are leading an international team dedicated to understanding exactly how they fight off a disease that claims 1.5 million lives each year.
The team’s goal is to use lessons learned...
March 30, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the spring 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 “f...
March 24, 2015
Finding could open unique avenues for treating illness
Case Western Reserve University scientists have discovered that speed matters when it comes to how messenger RNA (mRNA) deciphers critical information within the genetic code—the complex chain of instructions critical to sustaining life. The i...
March 23, 2015
A surgical sedative may hold the key to reversing the devastating symptoms of a neurodevelopmental disorder found almost exclusively in females. Ketamine, used primarily for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse models that Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers soon w...