Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
August 22, 2023
TikToks, apparel design, and science do mix—as the 39 scholars participating in this year's Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research (CanSUR) and the American Cancer Society's Diversity in Cancer Research (ACS-DICR) programs can attest. The programs are directed, respectively, by Mark Jackson,…
August 22, 2023
Co-directed by Fred Schumacher, PhD, MPH, co-leader of Case CCC's Population & Cancer Prevention program, and Erika Trapl, PhD, Case CCC's Associate Director of Community Outreach & Engagement, the Healthy Futures Research Project aims to work with the residents of East Palestine and the…
August 11, 2023
All eyes—including television cameras—were on the students who participated in the 2023 Student Enrichment Opportunity (SEO) and Youth Engaged in Science (YES) programs. Eighty students from across Cleveland joined Case CCC to work in labs and on projects ranging from cancer health disparities to…
July 13, 2023
Case CCC's Associate Director for Cancer Population Sciences, Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH, and Alberto Montero, MD, MBA, member of the Developmental Therapeutics Program, address the social determinants of health and racial disparities in cardiac events in breast cancer in an article published in…
July 10, 2023
Case CCC sadly shares that Clark Distelhorst, MD, an important and long-standing member, has passed away. An early recruit to the new hematology oncology division established by Nathan Berger, MD, at the CWRU School of Medicine, Distelhorst was appointed a member of the emerging cancer center in…
July 07, 2023
Khalid Sossey-Alaoui, PhD, member of Case CCC's Molecular Oncology Program, received a five-year, $2.3 million grant to study mechanisms mediating "triple-negative" breast cancer and health disparities in African-American women. Among genetically distinct breast cancers, those classified as…
July 05, 2023
Teams from Case CCC and University Hospitals have received Collaborative Pilot Science Awards to conduct research on brain tumor, cerebral edema, and gastroesophageal cancer. Each team received $50,000 funded by the UH-CWRU Joint Strategic Leadership Committee. According to Daniel Simon, MD,…
July 03, 2023
The brainchild of John Wang, PhD, Co-Leader of Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, the Emerging Researchers Program welcomed four returning students and two new students this week—all from East Cleveland. With the support of Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, CWRU's Faye…
June 30, 2023
University Hospitals Newsroom CLEVELAND – Data from a new study published in NEJM Evidence shows promise for personalized use of short term ADT in men with predominantly intermediate-risk prostate cancer. The study involved ArteraAI, a developer of multimodal artificial intelligence-based…
June 15, 2023
A new three-year, $2.5 million grant from Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) has been awarded to a multi-institutional team of gastroesophageal cancer experts, led by Anil K. Rustgi, MD, director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving…