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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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CWRU Athletes in Medicine: The power of peer mentorship
Balancing the demands of athletics with the rigorous path toward a career in medicine is a uniquely challenging—and rewarding—experience. At Case Western Reserve University, a new student-led mentorship initiative is working to make that journey more supportive and sustainable for pre-med student…
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Research paper from CWRU School of Medicine awarded 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Recent News
November 06, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip. Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team. The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a…
October 22, 2015
Multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve scientists uses brief exposure to therapy to find biomarker predictive of response to therapy A multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will…
October 21, 2015
DOE funds worldwide project to diagnose solar panel weaknesses, spur technologies to extend lifetime performance and predictability Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will do an epidemiological, disease control‐type study of more than 5 million solar panels at hundreds of power plants…
October 19, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine team received $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study a combination approach to help patients stop smoking, particularly those who are socially and economically disadvantaged. The project involves…
October 12, 2015
The Healthcare Financial Management Association will host a panel discussion and networking event, “The Future of Health Care,” Oct. 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom. The panel will include faculty members from the Weatherhead School of Management, School of Law and School of…
October 06, 2015
The School of Medicine will host David Satcher (MED ’70, GRS ’70), former surgeon general, as part of Homecoming and Reunion Weekend festivities Friday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Iris S. & Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Satcher will present the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on…
October 01, 2015
Designed by London’s Foster + Partners architects, building to offer state-of-the-art technology, innovative interprofessional education Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic broke ground Thursday on a four-story, 485,000-square-foot Health Education Campus (HEC) that its leaders…
October 01, 2015
With so many innovative alumni, students, faculty and staff in the Case Western Reserve University community, lectures and interactive conversations have become a main tenant of Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, giving participants the chance to see what’s going on around campus. Some of this…
September 23, 2015
Many Case Western Reserve University organizations will join more than 25 medical schools across the country in a Day of Action to remember the millions of people in the United States who are uninsured, underinsured and underserved by the current health care system. The Case Western Reserve…
September 23, 2015
Action of a key lncRNA different in colon cancer versus normal colon tissue Genetics researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), dubbed DACOR1, that has the potential to stymie the growth of tumor cells in the…