School of Medicine

A postdoc in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, Mai Rashwan’s work is centered on understanding the intricate structure of cells at the molecular level—knowledge that could bring us closer to understanding diseases. Leveraging the powerful imaging technique of cryogenic elec...

Howard Tucker has lived through a World War, the dawn of penicillin and the invention of the MRI—but nothing prepared him for TikTok fame at more than 100 years old. The centenarian doctor-turned-viral-sensation still lectures at Case Western Reserve University—offering both medical insights and lif...

Alex Matthews DMD/MPH dual-degree student at the School of Dental Medicine Area of Focus: dental public health, focusing on care access Alex Matthews grew curious about public health before he knew the term. As a kid in rural Tennessee, the multi-hour trips required to see various healthcare pro...

Epilepsy is among the most common neurological conditions, marked by unpredictable seizures, accidents and injuries, reduced quality of life, stigma and—in the worst case—premature death. But a program—developed over several years by a Case Western Reserve University-led research team—that teaches...

Educating the next generation of cancer researchers

A team of CWRU researchers penned an article titled “Fitness Seascapes are Necessary for Realistic Modeling of the Evolutionary Response to Drug Therapy,” which was recently published in Science Advances. Led by Eshan King, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the School of Medic...

New lymphoma T-cell therapy, made in less than a day, shows promising results with fewer side effects

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have found that semaglutide, a popular diabetes and weight-loss drug, may lower the risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Dementia, a condition that slowly makes it harder for people to remember things and think clearly, oc...

Air Force Research Laboratory grant funds nanomedicine research Anirban Sen Gupta Case Western Reserve University and University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have received an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant to test platelet-inspired nanotherapeutics to treat traumatic brain injurie...

In collaboration with the Community Advisory Board (CAB), the CTSC is working to strengthen Community Engaged Research (CER) capacity across its institutional and community partners. To support this goal, we are developing a CER training that draws on core principles of community engagement. Guided...