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Grace McComsey, MD, initially aspired to be an engineer before discovering her true passion for medicine. Shari Bolen, MD, was driven to become a doctor after witnessing the effects of illness on her family. Now, both serve as accomplished leaders at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and are…

Monitors and medical devices beep and whirr amid gurneys rolling down a terrazzo corridor. In a high-tech simulation suite at the ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, a team of medical students are racing through a hospital—and against the clock—to reach their patient in the…

Finding offers potential new target for treatment

Research out of the Xinghong Dai's lab in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and led by postdoctoral scholar Bibekananda Sahoo recently revealed that NINJ1, a small membrane protein, actively drives plasma membrane rupture (PMR) during lytic cell death, challenging the long-standing belief…

Beata Jastrzebska, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, and her research team used a virtual screening approach that identified potential treatment options for a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. Their work was published in PLOS…

Emily Nelson, research associate at the School of Medicine, and Darcy Freedman, the Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, will lead a webinar for the HEALing Communities Study. They will present “Tips for Engaging Coalitions to Respond to the Opioid Crisis: Lessons Learned from…

Members of the ÃÛÌÒAPP community are known for their innovative thinking across campus—and these creative mindsets can be seen in their unique and fascinating hobbies outside of work. National Hobby Month is celebrated annually in January, leaving no better time to spotlight…

Growing up in Osaka, Japan, Hisashi Fujioka always had a love for biology and the natural world around him. That passion drew him to earn his PhD at Nagoya University before forging a 30-year research career in different aspects of science at Case Western Reserve. Now, the Case Western Reserve…

To our School of Medicine community, I am writing to share the sad news that ÃÛÌÒAPP longtime research scientist Hisashi Fujioka, PhD, died Thursday, Jan. 23, at the age of 75.  Hisashi was the manager of standard electron microscopy…

At ÃÛÌÒAPP, innovation extends beyond academics. January marks National Hobby Month, a perfect opportunity to highlight the unique talents and passions of the university’s faculty, staff and students. From competitive dodgeball to jewelry-making, their interests reflect…