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Dear Faculty, Staff and Students of the School of Medicine, I am pleased to share that the Case Western Reserve University Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) in the School of Medicine has received a $56.3M seven-year grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sc...

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, I am pleased to share that I have appointed John Wang, PhD, as chair of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences. Dr. Wang—working with the exceptional faculty, staff and students in the department—will cont...

Nutrition plays a vital role in health—particularly in the prevention and management of chronic conditions. Guidelines like those in the widely known MyPlate model created by the US. Department of Agriculture can help people understand the types of foods they should eat, but it can be challenging to...

School of Medicine Pharmacology student Jacqueline Plau has earned a Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Discovery from the PhRMA Foundation. The award includes $25,000 per year in stipend support for promising students in the advanced stages of training and thesis research in drug discovery. Plau, who ...

Findings offer hope for development of new medications A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University revealed that the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be slowed by suppressing a specific protein in the brain that causes corrosion. A main pathogenic initiator of AD and r...

After completing his bachelor’s degree, Zubin Khan spent several years giving students direction as a high school counselor in Detroit. But despite the wise advice he gave, he still hadn’t found his own calling. Khan had begun his undergraduate studies at Eastern Michigan University planning to com...

The White Coat ceremony is a defining moment for medical students—marking the beginning of their healthcare careers. 216 new Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine students and their families celebrated the occasion on July 16. Dean Stan Gerson presided over the ceremony with Lia Logio,...

U.S. military veterans who lived in what were once known as “redlined” areas had a higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues, according to a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals and the Cleveland VA Medical Center. ...

Clark Distelhorst, MD, a long-standing faculty member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away on July 3, 2023. His wife Lynne shared that Dr. Distel...

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, I am happy to announce that I am appointing Sudha Chakrapani, PhD to the position of chair of the Department of Pharmacology. She has served as the interim chair since November 2022, demonstrating the leadership, vision and commitment needed to lead the department ...