School of Medicine

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive disorder that devastates motor nerve cells. People diagnosed with ALS slowly lose the ability to control muscle movement, and are ultimately unable to speak, eat, move, or breathe. The cellular mechanisms behind ALS are…

Just a few months after launching the first third-party app for Microsoft HoloLens, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic are pointing to another unprecedented achievement—one that puts the two institutions amid some impressive company. HoloAnatomy, a demonstration app designed to…

Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the fall session of Mini Med School, a medical school “for the rest of us”—those not seeking a medical degree, but with an interest in health research and trends. Led by faculty experts, the five-session program begins Sept. 21 with…

Many of us are concerned with improving the cost of care in the setting of major cancer care centers, such as those at Cleveland Clinic and Seidman Cancer Center and their network sites. A publication from members of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) on the "Value Access Cost of…

Part of international effort to eliminate HIV by 2020 The leader of Case Western Reserve’s AIDS research center has won two of seven grants that amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, awarded last month to support projects advancing the search for a cure for the human immunodeficiency…

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will serve as a lead partner for “First Year Cleveland,” a project aimed at reducing infant mortality in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. The project, which has been awarded more than $2.9 million from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, is a…

Phenanthriplatin outperformed cisplatin in mouse model of triple-negative breast cancer when encapsulated into nanocarrier In a pair of firsts, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that the drug candidate phenanthriplatin can be more…

Findings lay groundwork for human clinical trial planned for August 2016 A new scientific study has identified why colorectal cancer cells depend on a specific nutrient, and a way to starve them of it. Over one million men and women are living with colorectal cancer in the United States. The…

An international team led by researchers at Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine has designed a targeted therapy that shows early promise in treating a genetic disorder that damages both hearing and vision over time. Usher syndrome—the most common cause of inherited dual sensory deficit—is…

Guest Author: Greg Cooper Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death in this country, though over the past decade, both the incidence and mortality have been declining.  Colorectal screening is universally recommended as a means to detect premalignant adenomas as well as…