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The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-powered charity that funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University will host their annual Shave It Off! event ...

University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center President and Scientific Director Theodoros Teknos, MD, this week announced Daniel E. Spratt, MD, will join the UH Seidman Cancer Center team and hold the Vincent K. Smith Chair in Radiation Oncology, effective May 1. Dr. Spratt joins UH from the Univ...

The Youth Engaged in Science (YES) Program, led by Nathan A. Berger, MD, kicked off its spring session with a new "Learn to Beat Cancer" cohort this past Saturday. Eight middle school students, their families and a middle school teacher joined a Zoom-based virtual classroom, where they learned the b...

Please join the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center in extending congratulations to Cleveland Clinic's Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil on his recent election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement among physician-scientists. Dr. Scott will ...

From University Hospitals: A University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center neurosurgeon is among the first in the region to begin offering GammaTile® Therapy, a new approach to treating brain tumors. GammaTile Therapy is an FDA-cleared, Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) that is designed ...

Marissa Scavuzzo, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Paul Tesar, PhD, was selected as one of 21 scientists to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellowship. The highly competitive program, supports talented early-career scientists, specifically outstandin...

Dear Members of the Cancer Center community, Next month, on March 4-5, we are hosting the 5th Annual Cancer Disparities Symposium, themed as “Navigating Cancer Disparities: Lessons Learned and How to Move Forward.” This symposium has attracted a diverse audience as we will not only be joined by sci...

From Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: Machine learning-based approaches to risk assessment can be highly effective in predicting various types of cardiac dysfunction among cancer survivors who have received cardiotoxic cancer therapies, according to a new retrospective longitudinal study ...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Cleveland Clinic's Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD as he was awarded a 2020 V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research for his proposal, "Chromatin Dysfunction Identifies Metabolic Regulators as Potential Therapeutic Targets in...

A team of researchers from CWRU and UH is investigating the role of Erbb3 in the development of colorectal cancer. To put it simply, says lead investigator Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, the team is attempting to discover the pathways that can switch the cold tumors to hot tumors, and activate immune check...