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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
It only took an instant for all of Akua Abrah’s career ideas to shift. Peering into the eyes of an infant at an orphanage in Ghana, she tossed aside her aspirations of becoming a veterinarian—inspired by repeated viewings of Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Doolittle. Though she had yet to hear the word …
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June 05, 2013
CLEVELAND - Today, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Weatherhead Institute for Family Medicine and Community Health are hosting the second annual Ohio Health Data Symposium, a meeting for research and public health experts. The collaboration...
June 01, 2013
Project brings two renowned academic tracks together in one space to capitalize on synergies and advance state-of-the-art teaching and learning
Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic have agreed to collaborate on construction of a new, state-of-the-art medical education building for ...
May 25, 2013
CLEVELAND - Three major Ohio universities and four hospitals have joined with the March of Dimes Foundation to establish a new collaborative research program aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth. The March of Dimes intends to invest $10 million in the program over five ...
May 21, 2013
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is leading a Northeast Ohio team that is part of a $10 million March of Dimes project to help prevent preterm births. Greater Cleveland’s participants include University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital a...
May 06, 2013
A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed a novel method to disrupt this growth-signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a ...
May 02, 2013
CLEVELAND - A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a novel method to disrupt this growth signaling pathway, with finding...
May 01, 2013
Saptarsi M. Haldar, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, has won a $300,000 Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation to investigate a new approach to slow the progress of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in children.
Haldar w...
May 01, 2013
Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine is leading a statewide effort to speed the progress of promising medications to patients—all by encouraging collaboration among Ohio’s health leaders.
Thanks to a nearly $2 million investment from the State of the Ohio, more than a half dozen schools and ho...
April 30, 2013
Students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know that even in nutrition courses, there’s always room for sweets.
That’s because, in Colleen Croniger’s relatable, interactive teaching style, Halloween candy is the springboard to a broader discussion on biochemical pathways. She ch...
April 28, 2013
Case Western Reserve’s Technology Transfer Office has granted an exclusive license of a novel Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) treatment strategy to spinoff company ReXceptor Inc., which plans to initiate early-stage human clinical trials of the medication within the next few months.
Gary Landreth, the Riu...