School of Medicine

Members of the Center for Aerospace Physiology in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University recently met with their colleagues at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Their objective was to discuss ongoing collaborative research and educational initiatives, includin...

Sanjay Rajagopalan, director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute and professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, discussed the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular events on Cardi-OH Radio’s podcast, “Air Pollution Exposure and the Heart.” In t...

As part of the Frontiers in Biological Science Lecture Series, the Department of Pharmacology will host Timothy Alan Springer, professor at Harvard Medical School and co-recipient of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Springer will present “Touching the Soul of the Integrin Machin...

The ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship) Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the eighth Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Davidson College in North Carolina, will be held in person July 23-28, 2023. ILiADS offers a week-long in...

Paul Berg, PhD [GRS'52], Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in the field of genetic engineering, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from Western Reserve University in 1952, died last month. Berg became the university’s first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1980 when he was awarded the prize “for his fu...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism and Climate Change” virtual speaker series event with Dipesh Chakrabarty, an influential postcolonial scholar, Thursday, April 6, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Chakrabarty’s work is now canonical and he...

In a paper published in Genes & Development, investigators identified the protein WRD5 as a promising way to turn off cancer “stemness” at a molecular level, clearing the way for treatment like chemotherapy to kill glioblastoma cells. Cancer stem cells, like regular stem cells, can inherently repair...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will host “Brie the Change” benefit event for the Research Institute for Children’s Health Friday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. at Well Done Catering in Westlake (25022 Center Ridge Rd). The mission of the Research Institute for Children's Health is to i...

The Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Learning Group will host a session titled “Ethical Considerations in Community-Based Participatory Research” Thursday, March 9, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in BioEnterprise Building, Room 459B, and via Zoom. ...

One of Nital Subhas’ earliest memories is being on a plane for the first time with her aunt and sister, drinking Coca-Cola. While being permitted to drink the sugary beverage felt notable to a 5-year-old Subhas, the trip had an even greater significance: She was immigrating to the United States to j...