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Jae Jung, PhD has been appointed chair of Lerner Research Institute's Department of Cancer Biology where he will lead the department’s work in understanding the biological underpinnings of cancer ranging from genetic and molecular pathways to disease manifestation. ...

Last week, The Pathologist released its 2020 Power List which celebrates influential figures, thought leaders and opinion shapers in pathology and laboratory medicine. For the second year in a row, Anant Madabhushi, PhD, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, professor of patholo...

A recent article published in Cancer Discovery (Bayik, 2020, Cancer Discov) highlights disparities in immune system functions between male and female glioblastoma patients that may underlie some of the observed sex differences in cancer incidence, prognosis and treatment response. Defne Bayik, PhD a...

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...

From trying to understand lung immunity in COVID-19 patients to recognizing the impact the pandemic has had on mental health, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and affiliated health care systems have joined forces to expand and improve research on the virus in the community and beyond. ...

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...

A study published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Purkayastha, 2020, Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol) used genome-scale analysis to identify novel gene isoforms, or transcript-variants, in esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). Identification of these transcript variants may be u...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) extends congratulations to Heidi Gullett, MD, MPH associate professor in the School of Medicine, received the Family Physician of the Year Award from the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP). Dr. Gullett is a member of the Case CCC's Cancer Prevent...

Cancer researchers Alex Huang, MD, PhD, Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD, and Yamilet Huerta, MD, have been awarded $315,000 in grants from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to conduct research of new immunotherapy treatments for pediatric cancers. Huang, professor of pediat...

At 6 am on Saturday morning, it was just light enough to head out on my bike for my 50-mile VeloSano ride. It was pretty hard to be out there alone with the deer and the occasional coyote crossing my path, with enough water and a snack to make it back by 9:30 before the heat of the day. Later, a num...