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From the tennis court to the classroom: CWRU medical students balance academics with collegiate athletics
Hannah Kassaie and Ansh Shah earned accolades for tennis while completing their first year at CWRU School of Medicine
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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…
September 18, 2015
Gary Landreth, professor of neurosciences and neurology, received a 2015 Research Grant Award from The Alzheimer's Association. Landreth, who also is the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory, won a $240,000 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to fund his research in roles of TREM2 in…
September 14, 2015
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is a sponsor of the second annual Miles for Melanoma 5K, to raise money for the Melanoma Research Foundation. The race will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, at Edgewater Park. Check-in will be at 9 a.m. and the walk/run will begin at 10 a.m. Last…
September 11, 2015
Genetics researchers from Case Western Reserve 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 second-most deadly form of cancer in the U.S. — colorectal cancer. The researchers found that…
September 11, 2015
The Case Western Reserve University Institute for Computational Biology (ICB) will host its inaugural symposium Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center’s Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Ballroom. The symposium’s topic will be "Present-Day Problems and Potentials…