Director's Message

J. Alan Diehl, PhD I am pleased to announce the appointment of J. Alan Diehl, PhD as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer (DD/COO) of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC). This newly created role, established in the context of my taking on the role of interim Dean, will ...

Every day, health care workers and scientists put their health at risk to treat patients and work to better understand COVID-19 and hopefully how to slow its devastation. However, these professionals are often working without access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). As was so eloqu...

Erika Trapl, PhD I am pleased to announce the appointment of Erika Trapl, PhD as Associate Director (AD) for Community Outreach and Engagement for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC). This newly created role will oversee the broad interests and approaches taken by the Case CCC...

Wednesday was a busy day in a lonely cancer center office with a total of 9 conference and Zoom calls peppered throughout the day (starting at 7:30 am), enough to have my cell phone run dry. I also saw 5 rather sick patients with cancer who needed attention and treatment decisions. Our research and...

Dear Cancer Center community, This week brings an unprecedented shift in all our activities. For our physicians caring for cancer patients, a heightened awareness of our patients' risks for COVID-19 infection and complications. For each of us, a heightened awareness of changes in social interac...

Dear Cancer Center Community: As President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today, I am honored to take on the responsibilities of serving you as dean of the CWRU School of Medicine (SOM) on an interim basis as of July 1, 2020, while maintaining my position as director of the ...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center thanks Monica Webb Hooper, PhD for her leadership and dedication to our mission since joining the Center in 2016. The Cancer Center is pleased to announce that in March, Dr. Webb Hooper will assume the role of Deputy Director o...

My approach to best care has always been to think of a clinical trial first and use best available evidence next. That approach was unnerved by this week's excellent Perspective in the NEJM by Robert Aronowitz and Jeremy Greene. Aronowitz and Greene's perceptive and moving account of an all too com...

The National Cancer Institute's annual plan and budget proposal was recently released and it has something for everyone - that is, everyone interested in better cancer care outcomes through cancer research. The NCI report outlines the public face for the NCI and how they present their priorities to ...

The time has come once again for us to come together as a center at our Annual Scientific Retreat in less than two weeks. Members, fellows, post-docs and trainees have the opportunity to enjoy each other's company, hear updates from leadership, discuss research findings across the spectrum from coll...