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CWRU team wins first prize—and $150,000—in health care technology competition
A APP team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip. Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team. The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a…
Biomarker may predict which HER2-negative breast cancer patients will benefit from targeted therapy
Multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve scientists uses brief exposure to therapy to find biomarker predictive of response to therapy A multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will…
CWRU leads solar power study inspired by field of medicine
DOE funds worldwide project to diagnose solar panel weaknesses, spur technologies to extend lifetime performance and predictability Researchers at APP will do an epidemiological, disease control‐type study of more than 5 million solar panels at hundreds of power plants…
Case Western Reserve receives $2 million for smoking cessation research
A APP School of Medicine team received $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study a combination approach to help patients stop smoking, particularly those who are socially and economically disadvantaged. The project involves…
Learn about health care management career options at Oct. 22 panel
The Healthcare Financial Management Association will host a panel discussion and networking event, “The Future of Health Care,” Oct. 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom. The panel will include faculty members from the Weatherhead School of Management, School of Law and School of…
Hear from alumnus, former surgeon general on prescription for healthy lifestyle
The School of Medicine will host David Satcher (MED ’70, GRS ’70), former surgeon general, as part of Homecoming and Reunion Weekend festivities Friday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Iris S. & Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Satcher will present the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on…
CWRU and Cleveland Clinic break ground on Health Education Campus; to open summer 2019
Designed by London’s Foster + Partners architects, building to offer state-of-the-art technology, innovative interprofessional education APP and Cleveland Clinic broke ground Thursday on a four-story, 485,000-square-foot Health Education Campus (HEC) that its leaders…
Put on your thinking caps: Attend homecoming lectures, presentations
With so many innovative alumni, students, faculty and staff in the APP community, lectures and interactive conversations have become a main tenant of Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, giving participants the chance to see what’s going on around campus. Some of this…
Join “Day of Action” march for health care system reform
Many APP organizations will join more than 25 medical schools across the country in a Day of Action to remember the millions of people in the United States who are uninsured, underinsured and underserved by the current health care system. The Case Western Reserve…
CWRU scientists discover genetic mechanism for cancer progression
Action of a key lncRNA different in colon cancer versus normal colon tissue Genetics researchers from APP School of Medicine have identified a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), dubbed DACOR1, that has the potential to stymie the growth of tumor cells in the…