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George Dubyak receives Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation
  During Homecoming weekend, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine awarded the school’s highest honor—the Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation—to Professor George Dubyak, PhD. Dubyak, who serves as both director of Case Western Reserve’s Biomedical Research Training…
Case Western Reserve, MetroHealth receive $12.5M to develop devices to treat paralysis
National Institutes of Health funding will aid in effort to create open-source network for researchers nationwide Case Western Reserve University and The MetroHealth System and are working together to develop an open-source network that will allow researchers around the country access to…
National Institutes of Health awards $15.75M to research team led by Case Western Reserve University and Duke University to map vagus nerve—body’s ‘super highway’ for controlling major organ functions
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $15.75 million contract to researchers led by Case Western Reserve and Duke universities to accelerate development of therapeutic devices that improve chronic medical conditions.      The contract is within the NIH’s Stimulating Peripheral…
Merck Foundation awards Case Comprehensive Cancer Center 5-year, $2M grant to advance equitable cancer care in Northeast Ohio
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) recently announced it received a $2 million grant through the Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care (the Alliance), an initiative funded by the Merck Foundation (the Foundation) and designed to make cancer care more equitable in the United States by…
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Student Spotlight: Larissa De Souza
Student Spotlight: Larissa De Souza Class Year: 2024 Program Major: Doctor of Medicine Since arriving at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Larissa De Souza has devoted her time inside and outside the classroom to growing diversity in medicine—realizing the impact it has on the…
Case Western Reserve University postdoctoral researcher to lead MS study with new career transition fellowship from National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) can control relapses, but don’t stop the disease from progressing—or promote brain repair. But with financial support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), a postdoctoral researcher at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will…
Case Western Reserve University postdoctoral researcher to lead MS study with new career transition fellowship from National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) can control relapses, but don’t stop the disease from progressing—or promote brain repair. But with financial support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), a postdoctoral researcher at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will…
Why women may be more susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers identify mechanism in brain tissue that may explain disparity between men and women Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a mechanism in brain tissue that may explain why women are more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s…
COVID-19 associated with increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in youth, by as much as 72%
Children who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a new study that analyzed electronic health records of more than 1 million patients ages 18 and younger. In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers at…
New study reveals mechanism for how disease-spreading prions can jump from one species to another
Finding suggests transmission between species may be possible In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease.   This insight, they say, reveals the mechanism…