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School of Medicine faculty members named Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars
Huiping Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, and Will Bush, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, were named Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars. The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars Program has assisted the School of Medicine in...
Professor to present on AIDS vaccine potential at next Public Affairs Discussion group
Michael Lederman, the Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Center for AIDS Research, will present “An Update on the Search for an AIDS Vaccine” at the next Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group on Friday, Oct. 24, 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library. ...
Common spice could help extend lives of mesothelioma patients
A common Asian spice and cancer-hampering molecules show promise in slowing the progression of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining often linked to asbestos. Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt, Germany, demonstrate that application of curcum...
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dean, Department Chair Elected to Prestigious Institute of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the nation’s most prestigious societies for health and med...
Medical school dean, department chair elected to Institute of Medicine
School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the nation’s most prestigious societies for health and medicine. “We congratulate and app...
School of Medicine’s Ahmad Khalil selected to present at Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium
Ahmad Khalil, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, has been selected to speak at the 16th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy o...
Nursing school receives grant to study how cancer patients make end-of-life decisions
The choice to die at home surrounded by loved ones comes too late for some cancer patients. Why that happens and how to change the process so more patients may die as they wish is the focus of new research individuals at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will p...
Tropical virus expert to give comprehensive view of developing Ebola epidemic
Center for Global Health and Diseases and Infectious Disease and Immunology Institute host lecture open to public Case Western Reserve University, as a global health education leader, will present Ebola expert Daniel Bausch for a special lecture on the unfolding crisis. He will detail his experience...
Ebola Special Lecture: Tropical Virus Expert to Give Balanced, Comprehensive View of Developing Epidemic
Case Western Reserve University, as a global health education leader, will present Ebola expert, Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, for a special lecture on the unfolding crisis. He will detail his experiences, “From the Front Lines of the Battle with Ebola,” from 2 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Wols...
Alumna, concussion researcher to give Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Oct. 17
Ann McKee (MED ’79), professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University School of Medicine and director of neuropathology in the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bedford, Mass., will give the next School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Lecture. Her talk, titled "Emerging Concepts in Chronic...