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Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine. “I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and was...

Our School of Medicine recently joined the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIMH), becoming part of more than 70 highly esteemed academic medical centers and health systems across the U.S. Founded in 1999, the Consortium is committed to sharing information and ideas and supp...

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Bonomo, one of the world’s most renowned researchers in the fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria, who will receive the Mark Wolcott Award for Excellence in Clinical Leadership from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at a ceremony in February, 2020. For mo...

As we begin the year 2020 at the School of Medicine, we are very pleased to congratulate four employees who were honored with Staff Awards for 2018 - 2019. These awards celebrate those who not only have consistently performed their duties in an outstanding manner, but regularly operate with an exemp...

The development of a set of strategies for delivering genome editing complexes directly to stem cells has earned a group of innovators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine a first-year grant of nearly $700,000 through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Somatic Cell Genome Editi...

Wenquan Zou, an expert in degenerative neurological diseases, along with collaborators Shu G. Chen, also from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Jiyan Ma, from Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas Beach, from Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City, A...

It happens every morning, but for Jim Young, this time was magic. He was sitting in a 6:30 a.m. meeting at the Health Education Campus, and as the conversation continued the sun began peeking through its west-facing windows. While the atrium gradually grew brighter, “hundreds and hundreds of stude...

New research at Case Western Reserve University could help better determine which patients diagnosed with the pre-malignant breast cancer commonly referred to as stage 0 are likely to progress to invasive breast cancer and therefore might benefit from additional therapy over and above surgery alone....

Since its founding in 2012, Harrington Discovery Institute—part of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development—has supported more than 100 drugs-in-the-making across disease areas and academic institutions. Core to its mission, Harrington Discovery Institute recognizes and supports inventive ...

Scientists have known that bacteria in the gut, along with environmental and genetic factors, contribute to the debilitating intestinal ailment of Crohn’s disease (CD). But in 2016, Mahmoud A Ghannoum, professor and director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University Schoo...