cancer research

Findings shed light on which tumors may respond better to immune checkpoint blockade therapy

The Cancer Center Seminar Series will kick off Friday, Sept. 10, at noon in Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (1-413). Partha Roy, associate professor of bioengineering and pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, will present “Targeting actin-regulatory protein in clear cell renal cancer.” T...

Members of the community are invited to the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium—hosted virtually by the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center—Oct. 25–26. This annual symposium highlights ongoing basic, translational, clinical and population studies addressing the biological mechanisms, management and pre...

Case Western Reserve University scientists show that artificial intelligence tools can work effectively for different locations, populations For artificial intelligence (AI) to realize its full potential to benefit cancer patients, researchers will have to prove that their machine-learning successe...

Work has potential implications for new therapies to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has found a way to measure key characteristics of proteins that bind to RNA in cells—a discovery that could improve our understanding of how gene f...

Case Western Reserve School of Medicine researcher part of effort to modify adenovirus to seek and destroy cancer cells While doctors can successfully treat some types of skin cancer at the surface with human-engineered viruses, scientists have yet to find a way to inject these types of viruses to ...

Case Western Reserve University researcher takes aim at hard-to-treat metastatic cancers by using new method to unlock ‘cold tumors’ for successful treatment A team of scientists led by aresearcher at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is making strides to fight deadly metastati...

National Cancer Institute awards $1.15 million to Case Western Reserve University researchers, collaborators to develop new tool to guide oncologists Case Western Reserve University scientists are developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help surgeons and oncologists identify the subtle but...

Cancer researchers Alex Huang, Reshmi Parameswaran and Yamilet Huerta have been awarded $315,000 in grants from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to conduct research of new immunotherapy treatments for pediatric cancers. Alex Huang Huang, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University Scho...

Scientists have identified binding pocket for molecules that can stabilize key braking mechanism in cancer—opening door to development of drugs that target it A team of scientists led by the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has identified the bindi...