Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has made pilot awardee selections following recent RFAs. Please join us in congratulating the awardees below. Accelerator Award William Schiemann, PhD and Saba Valadkhan, MD, PhD Project: BORG:TRIM28 Complexes: Global Regulat...

Effective July 1, Leland Metheny, MD will serve as Chair of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC) and Shilpa Gupta, MD will serve as Co-Chair. The PRMC reviews all new cancer-related trials conducted at the institutions affiliated with the Case CCC a...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently awarded a new five-year $3.7M grant to Ge Jin, PhD and Bingcheng Wang, PhD, as co-principal investigators, to explore why those living with HIV have a higher risk for certain kinds of cancers, such as lung cancer. Drs. Jin and Wang are members of the Case...

As COVID-19 swept across the world and hit the United States in force this spring, hospitals had to make critical decisions about everything from appropriate staffing and bed allocation to securing medications that were in short supply and how much of medical care could be put on hold, or changed to...

Following Medicaid Expansion Individuals with Low-Income Less Likely to be Diagnosed with Advanced Cancers A new study published in CANCER (Kim, CANCER, 2020) indicates the expansion of Medicaid led to earlier detection of cancer in individuals with low-income. Their findings suggest Medicaid expan...

Research has found that those living with HIV have a higher risk for certain kinds of cancers—such as lung cancer. Now, with a new five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), researchers from Case Western Reserve University hope to find out why. Ge Jin, professor at the ...

Again this year, the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has opened a portion of its annual scientific retreat to the community with TED-style talks from three prominent leaders of research and advocacy. The talks will take place beginning at noon on Thursday, July 23, and will be broadcast live on the...

The time has come once again for us to come together as a center at our Annual Scientific Retreat in just a few weeks. Though it will look different this year in our virtual format, our members, fellows, post-docs and trainees have the opportunity to be enriched by guest speakers, hear updates from ...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Siran Koroukian, PhD, as she was awarded one of three Real-World Data Impact Awards from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Flatiron Health. Dr. Koroukian, an associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences at Cas...

Big science wins often develop in the background of collaborative teams consisting of laboratories with diverse but complementary research expertise and interests. Among the advantages of developing teams with common scientific goals, is a synergism that arises from unique perspectives. As a result ...