Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Walter Boron, MD, PhD, Distinguished University Professor and the Myers/Scarpa Professor and chair of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, was recently selected for the Davson Distinguished Lectureship. The lectureship is the highest honor awarded to a scientist who has made important…

For decades, evidence has been piling up that links heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. People with diabetes are twice as likely to experience heart disease or stroke. Being overweight and obese increases the risk of high blood pressure…

No matter their field of study, Case Western Reserve University graduate students are routinely challenged to consider new ways of thinking and examine innovative approaches to age-old questions, often making significant scholarly contributions along the way. That couldn’t happen without…