Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
November 30, 2020
School of Medicine awarded $2.6M; receives two of 13 grants nationally New research funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) aims to boost understanding of how the immune system responds to COVID-19, from the start of infection to recovery. Two projects totaling over $2.6 million are being…
November 27, 2020
We wish Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS much luck as he transitions to a new position at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as chief of the Division of Hematology. Dr. Sekeres has been a long-time advocate for cancer patients and clinical research in our center. His guidance, leadership and gift for…
November 23, 2020
Cleveland Clinic's newly established Center for Immunotherapy & Precision Immuno-Oncology (CITI) has launched its Immunomonitoring Laboratory (IML), which will help researchers and clinicians to analyze the nature and state of immune responses of cancer patients. The IML is an institutional core…
November 20, 2020
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, PhD and Stanley Huang, PhD as they were each identified by Clarivate as some of the world's most influential researchers, most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In…
November 20, 2020
When Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) Director Stan Gerson, MD agreed to take part in an exploratory trip to Israel this past March, he could not imagine the worldwide pandemic that would descend and shake up every aspect of the trip. While conferences were canceled, meetings were…
November 11, 2020
The Cancer Center will soon offer investigators isotope tracing capability through the new Cancer Metabolism Shared Resource (SR) in development. Isotope tracing analysis allows investigators to monitor pathway activities, which cannot be attained by measuring the metabolites' cellular…
November 06, 2020
A team of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) researchers were recently awarded $150,000 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), as a supplement to the Cancer Center Support Grant, to survey cancer patients and oncology healthcare providers about the use of cannabis products during…
November 06, 2020
The Cancer Center will soon offer investigators isotope tracing capability through the new Cancer Metabolism Shared Resource (SR) in development. Isotope tracing analysis allows investigators to monitor pathway activities, which cannot be attained by measuring the metabolites' cellular…
October 28, 2020
Researchers with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) have secured $5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish an HIV-associated Malignancy Research Center…
October 20, 2020
David Schwartz Photography Interim President Scott Cowen and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that Interim Dean Stan Gerson, MD has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. “We knew Stan’s deep familiarity with the medical school and its hospital partners…