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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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April 17, 2013
Measure of brains’ functional connectivity and background noise shows significant differences
Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children...
April 17, 2013
CLEVELAND - Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Their findings appear today in the online journal PLOS ONE.
The researchers rec...
April 15, 2013
Scientists at CWRU School of Medicine discover new technique that holds promise for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy
Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in pa...
April 14, 2013
CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders.
This discovery appears today in the journal...
April 10, 2013
Grant to support investigation of possible new treatments
A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has secured a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant to explore whether a specific molecule may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of psoriasi...
April 04, 2013
CLEVELAND - A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has secured a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant to explore whether a specific molecule may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of psoriasis.
Nicole Ward, PhD, assistant professor of der...
April 01, 2013
Members of the campus community are encouraged to attend the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Mini Med School to enhance professional and personal development. Mini Med School is medical school “for the rest of us”—those not seeking a medical degree but with an interest in health...
March 29, 2013
When people hear the term “cancer research,” they might think cures, genes or even prevention. Mary Step’s studies take a different route.
As an assistant professor of family medicine and community health, she studies the communication between cancer patients and their physicians. And as the honora...
March 25, 2013
An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found.
The breakthrough follows discoveries that certain proteins found in the brains of Alzh...
March 22, 2013
March Madness has begun, and there’s one person on campus who knows exactly what that excitement is like. Chris Masotti, vice dean for finance and administration at the School of Medicine, played for the Villanova Wildcats from 1987 to 1991 and played in the NCAA Tournament three of those four years...