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With the significant rise in youth and adolescent diabetes over the last four decades, Rose Gubitosi-Klug’s work has not only changed the understanding of this challenging illness—it has impacted how patients are managed. A member of the Case Western Reserve University faculty since 1999,…

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Case Western Reserve University Translational Fellows Program (TFP). This program is designed to train individuals in entrepreneurship and the translation of innovation while protecting time for entrepreneurial activities. We are seeking applications…

A new $6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health extends funding for the Silvio O. Conte Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC), a cross-institutional collaboration of digestive disease investigators. In 2015, an initial $6 million, five-year NIH grant…

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that they have appointed renowned cystic fibrosis researcher Mitch Drumm as the university’s interim vice president for research and technology management. He succeeds Suzanne Rivera, who will become Macalester College’s…

The nation was already clinically anxious enough. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19% of American adults experience at least one anxiety disorder over any 12-month period. And that was before the coronavirus outbreak. “In a matter of just a few weeks, most Americans had…

When the COVID-19 outbreak started to become increasingly prevalent in Northeast Ohio, Mitchell Thom, a first-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University, and his friends were looking for ways to help. The group started discussing how much physicians and health care employees on the…

Isaac Levine, a third-year medical student who was pulled off his clinical rotation when COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, found himself with free time and wanted to do something to help those on the front lines. He joined forces with fellow students Abby Gross and Daniel Li to address the…

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, was a part of the rapid-response research team during the severe acute…

Idea initiated by fourth-year med student   When Elisabeth Wynia, a fourth-year student at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, learned on March 13 that her final hospital rotation was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns, she hustled for an alternative. “Anticipating that other…

While the novel coronavirus is disrupting every aspect of normalcy, the pandemic is also creating opportunities—for learning and community service, as faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered by stepping up to fill an urgent need at local community…