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October 21, 2016
Katelyn Pierce has wanted to be an attorney since she was a child. For Galen Baynes, lawyering came to mind only after he earned his bachelor’s degree. Now, as third-year law students at Case Western Reserve, they are gaining unusual real-world experience in the profession they hope to practice:…
October 20, 2016
A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has been recognized with the Patent for Humanity award by the Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a portable, battery-operated device that uses magnets and lasers to quickly and inexpensively…
October 20, 2016
A Case Western Reserve University research project that has become a national model for helping reshape how sexual assaults are investigated and prosecuted—including cases borne from rape kits 20-plus years old—will share two new grants totaling $3 million from the U.S. Department of Justice…
October 18, 2016
Case Western Reserve Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Support Research Training for Medical Students
Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant (T35) grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of…
October 17, 2016
Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and Mukesh K. Jain, MD, FAHA, professor in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have been elected…
October 17, 2016
A group of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have completed a comprehensive molecular analysis of a toddler who developed as a female despite having a male genetic background, termed XY sex reversal. The study identifies for the first time how the machinery for…
October 14, 2016
The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high-risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker-Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for…
October 11, 2016
In the first major study of its kind, principal investigator Benjamin Gaston, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist and researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, has received a five-year, $13.3 million federal grant to…
October 05, 2016
Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers are receiving new funding from California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation for promising childhood cancer research. Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD, assistant professor of hematology and oncology, was awarded $330,000 to develop safer…
October 03, 2016
Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine bioethicists are calling on organized medicine to end its refusal to provide clinical guidance regarding the care of patients actively seeking assistance in dying. Writing in the November 15, 2016 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (now…