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The lifesaving power of trust
Community-based prostate-cancer screening program teams up with barbershops Waverly Willis was out shopping with his daughter one day when he was blindsided—by a hug. A big, tearful, holding-on-for-dear-life hug, the kind that's usually reserved for long-distance airport arrivals and the…
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Researchers publish article on drug resistance using novel modeling approach
A team of CWRU researchers penned an article titled “Fitness Seascapes are Necessary for Realistic Modeling of the Evolutionary Response to Drug Therapy,” which was recently published in Science Advances. Led by Eshan King, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the School of…
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Accelerating immunotherapy
New lymphoma T-cell therapy, made in less than a day, shows promising results with fewer side effects
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Pancreatic cancer vaccines eliminate disease in preclinical studies
Case Western Reserve University researchers combat deadly cancer with therapeutic vaccines
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The sun is out—protect yourself from skin cancer
Despite our overcast climate, Northeast Ohioans still need to protect themselves from sun’s harmful rays
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New Technology Could Make Cancer Immunotherapy Cheaper, Thanks to Wald and Brady-Kalnay
Co-leader of Case CCC's Immune Oncology Program, David Wald, MD, PhD, has already improved the landscape of CAR T immunotherapy by developing an ultra-fast procedure that cuts CAR T cell manufacturing from two weeks to less than 24 hours. However, harvesting T cells to make CAR T therapy…
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Drug Developed by Markowitz is a Potential New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
A study, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and co-led by Sanford Markowitz, MD, PhD, CWRU Distinguished University Professor and Case CCC Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program member, discovered that SW033291—a drug that was originally developed in the…
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Saying YES to Improving Cancer Research Education
An article highlighting Case CCC's Youth Enjoy Science (YES) program, Saying YES to Careers in Cancer Research: A Collaborative Model for Evaluating and Improving a Cancer Education and Research Program, was recently published in the European Society of Medicine with J.T. Render as first author.…
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PhD student Sydney Evans honored by Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation
Sydney Evans, a member of the Community Outreach and Engagement team at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and community navigator for the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project, was named a 40 Under 40 Emerging Legend by the Black Professionals Association Charitable…
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Yang Study Informs Further Research on Metastatic Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer
Sichun Yang, PhD, a member of Case CCC's Molecular Oncology Program, and Alberto Montero, MD, a Developmental Therapeutics Program member, are looking for patient advocates for a follow-up study to Yang's recent structure-function study, The sequence-structure-function relationship of intrinsic ERα…