Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
November 21, 2019
Extra DNA scooped up and copied alongside cancer-causing genes helps keep tumors going—elements that could represent new drug targets for brain tumors and other cancers notoriously difficult to treat One of the ways a
cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a…
October 25, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Halle Moore, MD, as earlier this week she was named director of breast medical oncology and co-director for the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Moore joined Cleveland Clinic in 1999 and will assume her new…
October 18, 2019
Dear members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center community: I am happy to announce that John Pounardjian, MBA has been appointed Associate Director of Administration at our exceptional center. This appointment comes after an extensive national search following the departure of former…
October 18, 2019
For the past three years, the National Cancer Institute has funded the Youth Engaged in Science (YES) program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), introducing and training underrepresented minorities to cancer care and research professions. The program is led by Nathan Berger, MD. Program…
October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at Case Western Reserve Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups. His curiosity, fueled…
October 07, 2019
William Kaelin, Jr., MD William Kaelin, Jr. from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe from Oxford University and Francis Crick Institute and Gregg L. Semenza from Johns…
October 04, 2019
“Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab has the potential to become a platinum-free option for cisplatin-ineligible locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer patients in the first-line setting," said Christopher J. Hoimes, DO, hematologist/oncologist at University Hospitals, assistant…
October 03, 2019
The Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center invites multidisciplinary researchers, community agencies and organizations to submit abstracts for presentation at the fourth annual Cancer Disparities Symposium Friday, March 6. Abstracts will be divided into two…
September 27, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has made pilot award selections following a recent RFA. Selected projects were recognized as highly innovative and impactful, and likely to generate key data for larger, nationally competitive grants. Investigators were permitted to submit…
September 26, 2019
This week, the New York Times featured an opinion piece written by three board members of the Physician-Scientist Support Foundation, including Mukesh Jain, MD, University Hospitals cardiologist, professor at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and member of the Case…