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School of Medicine’s Gary Landreth receives grant to continue working on Alzheimer's research
Gary Landreth, professor of neurosciences and neurology, received a 2015 Research Grant Award from The Alzheimer's Association. Landreth, who also is the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory, won a $240,000 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to fund his research in roles of TREM2 in…
Help raise money for the Melanoma Research Foundation at annual 5K
The ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine is a sponsor of the second annual Miles for Melanoma 5K, to raise money for the Melanoma Research Foundation. The race will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, at Edgewater Park. Check-in will be at 9 a.m. and the walk/run will begin at 10 a.m. Last…
Case Western Reserve scientists discover long-sought genetic mechanism for cancer progression
Genetics researchers from Case Western Reserve 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 second-most deadly form of cancer in the U.S. — colorectal cancer.  The researchers found that…
Learn how precision medicine can impact health care at Sept. 22 symposium
The ÃÛÌÒAPP Institute for Computational Biology (ICB) will host its inaugural symposium Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center’s Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Ballroom. The symposium’s topic will be "Present-Day Problems and Potentials…
CWRU researchers find high blood sugar of diabetes can cause immune system malfunction
Case Western Reserve scientists show how sugar-derived molecules can weaken infection-fighting antimicrobial beta-defensin peptides ÃÛÌÒAPP scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion the dangerous infection in the feet and hands that often…
Colon cancer researcher Sanford Markowitz receives Distinguished University Professorship
Groundbreaking medical research offers Sanford Markowitz the best of two worlds. He thrives on solving tough scientific puzzles that come with medical research in a top-flight academic center. He also finds immense gratification that his work may someday help someone with serious illness such as…
$18.5 million Fasenmyer Foundation gift supports research efforts at School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Two Cleveland researchers receive $18.5 million to continue legacy in rheumatic, immunologic disorders and infectious disease Building on its previous gifts to Cleveland Clinic and ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, the Richard J. Fasenmyer Foundation awarded $18.5 million in new…
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines to show film "Medical Research: Houston, We Have a Problem" today
The ÃÛÌÒAPP chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will host a showing of Medical Research: Houston, We Have a Problem. The event will take place today (Monday, Aug. 24) from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Biomedical Research Building, Room 105. Food will be…
School of Medicine student selected to participate in Minority Medical Student Award Program
Tolulope Rosanwo, a student in the School of Medicine, recently was selected to participate in the 2015 Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP). The program is meant to increase interest among minority students in hematology. Over the course of a summer, the students must create a research…
School of Medicine’s Robert Bucklew receives 2014-2015 Joan Harris Staff Development Award
The School of Medicine awarded Robert Bucklew, outreach coordinator for the ÃÛÌÒAPP/University Hospitals AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), with the 2014-2015 Joan Harris Staff Development Award. The School of Medicine annually awards this honor to a non-faculty employee who…