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Andrew Pieper awarded the Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation
When Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, set out to study the brain, he was drawn by the difficulty of the challenge—and the possibility of making a meaningful difference for patients facing some of medicine’s most devastating conditions. Now, that commitment to transformative research and patient care has…
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April 23, 2025
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Member, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director of classical hematology, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute Director of physician-scientist…
April 22, 2025
To our School of Medicine community, On behalf of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Hovmand as director of the Center for Community Health Integration. Peter Hovmand, the Pamela B. Davis MD PhD Professor of Medicine, is an…
April 18, 2025
At Case Western Reserve University, students are more than guests in our city—they are Clevelanders for the duration of their studies on campus. For many, that comes with a desire to give back to the neighbors who have welcomed them to the community. From participation in the Civic Engagement…
April 17, 2025
To our School of Medicine community, On behalf of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Darin Croft as chair for the Department of Anatomy. I want to thank Clifford Harding for being interim chair for the Department of Anatomy for so…
April 16, 2025
To our School of Medicine community, I am writing to share the sad news that Case Western Reserve University longtime professor, endocrinologist and researcher, Douglas Kerr, MD, PhD (MED ‘65, GRS ‘65), died Wednesday, April 2, at the age of 88. Dr. Kerr dedicated more than 40…
April 15, 2025
Bhavya Bansal, of Tampa, Florida, knew she wanted to complete her pre-med undergraduate degree in Cleveland—surrounded by four major hospitals—but didn't realize just how much CWRU would shape her beyond academics. In one of her bioethics classes with Elieen Anderson, Bansal read about Johanna…
April 14, 2025
Bibekananda Sahoo, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, arrived at Case Western Reserve University in fall 2020, fresh after completing a PhD program in India. Working under the mentorship of Xinghong Dai at the School of Medicine, Sahoo uses cryo-electron…
April 11, 2025
Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, associate professor of pathology at the School of Medicine, was appointed as a nominated member of the editorial board of Diabetes journal, which is published by the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes is the top-ranked journal devoted exclusively to diabetes research…
April 11, 2025
Reshmi Parameswaran was recently appointed director of the Cancer Biology Training Program (CBTP). The goal of the CBTP is to train PhD and MD/PhD scientists who will advance research on the causes, diagnosis, progression and treatment of experimental and human cancer. The CBTP provides a PhD…