cancer research

NIH grant may enable new directions for cancer immunotherapies Nicole Steinmetz, the George J. Picha Designated Professor in Biomaterials, received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to help understand how a virus-like particle from plants stimulates potent anti-tumor…

Case Western Reserve University researchers target tumor protein A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent being tested by researchers at Case Western Reserve University not only pinpoints breast cancers at early stages but differentiates between aggressive and slow-growing…

Alex Huang’s battle to defeat childhood cancers got another boost last week when the St. Baldrick’s Foundation named him among the year’s leading researchers in the field. The volunteer-driven organization, which focuses solely on pediatric and adolescent cancers, awarded 90 grants to scientists…

New research suggests co-administration with chemotherapy drugs most effective strategy Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with researchers from Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and RWTH Aachen University (Germany) have adapted virus particles…

Also receives major grant from Stand Up to Cancer to “starve cancer cells to death” Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer Dream Team that was announced in April at the annual meeting of the American…

The American Cancer Society (ACS) provides a key source of funding for some Case Western Reserve University researchers. Honorary chair of CWRU’s 2017 Relay for Life Johnie Rose, assistant professor of family medicine and community health, is among Case Western Reserve’s American Cancer…

The 2017 Relay For Life will be held from Saturday, April 22, at 11:30 a.m. to Sunday, April 23, at 2:30 a.m. at the North Residential Village Bill Sudeck Track. Relay For Life at Case Western Reserve University is a student-led, campuswide tradition that raises funds for the American Cancer…

Case Western Reserve University-led research could speed identification of recurrent tumors, eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more…

When Monica Webb Hooper saw a Facebook post about an opening to establish and direct the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at Case Western Reserve University, she knew it had her name written all over it. She didn’t know much about Cleveland, but when she came here from the University of Miami…