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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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January 12, 2024
Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award. Flask is also…
January 12, 2024
Olivia Dhaliwal, a fourth-year medical student, was named a Pisacano Leadership Foundation 2024 scholar in family medicine. Prior to beginning medical school, Dhaliwal worked with Teach for America, through which she contributed to efforts to cure Hepatitis C on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.…
January 11, 2024
When Dean Stan Gerson called Paul Tesar to the stage at the School of Medicine’s State of the School address last month, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics believed he’d be speaking about the Institute of Glial Sciences—a new center he’s directing. Instead,…
January 11, 2024
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the School of Medicine’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Wednesday, Jan. 17, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building’s first-floor auditorium. The event will include a Virtual Inclusive Talk And Lecture…
January 11, 2024
The next Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series event will be held Thursday, Jan. 18, from 4 to 4:45 p.m. in Samson Pavilion, Room 113. Virtual attendance also is available. Held in partnership with the School of Medicine’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Pathways…
January 10, 2024
With $3.5M National Institutes of Health grant, research teams from Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Hospital hope to find out
January 05, 2024
Sidney M. Wolfe, MD (MED ’65), adjunct professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine, passed away on Jan. 1, 2024. In 1971, Wolfe co-founded the Public Citizen's Health Research Group, an organization that was pivotal in advocating for consumer interests in healthcare and…
January 05, 2024
Written by leading science researchers, editors, and journalists, reviews in Nature Cancer's 2023 in Review showcase the most exciting discoveries and the biggest challenges of the year. It's not surprising that research conducted in the lab run by Case CCC's Justin Lathia, PhD, Molecular Oncology…
January 05, 2024
Uriel Kim, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program in CWRU's SOM and an Associate Trainee Member of the Case CCC, plans to graduate this spring with his MD, although he doesn't lack a plethora of letters behind his name (BS, MPH, PhD, and pending MBA to name a few). The transplanted…
January 05, 2024
A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine reveals that a chemical used in the diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-management drug Wegovy is not associated with an increased risk for suicidal thoughts. The findings about the chemical—known as semaglutide—is…