APP

Skip to main content
Front of HEC

School of Medicine

From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at APP know how to make headlines.

Recent News

Register to attend symposium on data science July 29-30
In collaboration with Tohoku University in Japan, the APP School of Medicine and Case School of Engineering will hold the Data Science in Life Science and Engineering Collaboration and Symposium July 29-30. The symposium brings together researchers from Case Western…
Medical student injured in hit-and-run accident in charity bike race
A APP medical student known for always giving to others now needs the community’s assistance as he recovers from a near-deadly injury suffered during a cancer research fundraiser. Life Flight had to transport second-year student Brady Tucker to MetroHealth Medical…
Case Western Reserve to lead multi-institutional ‘big data’ project
APP is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal ‘big data’ grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of information the U.S. health care system collects every day. If successful, the work could create enormous new…
Case Western Reserve to lead multi-institutional ”Big Data” project
Federal grant supports design of platform for collection, analysis of different kinds of data Satya Sahoo APP is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal "Big Data" grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of…
Key protein controls nutrient availability in mammals
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like…
Medical student research to be on display at Friday’s Lepow Day
Irwin. H. Lepow Medical Student Research Day—originally scheduled for Feb. 19—will be held Friday, July 17, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building. The daylong event celebrates student research in the medical field. The event will include poster and oral…
CWRU researchers find key protein controls nutrient availability in mammals
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like…
School of Medicine student selected for national Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars program
A APP School of Medicine scholar was one of only 30 medical students from across North America selected to participate in the 2015 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars (TREKS) program, an initiative of the society’s…
3-D views reveal intricacies in intestines that could lead to discoveries for inflammatory bowel disease
Case Western Reserve scientists find mouse models of IBD most closely resembling human forms of the illness Fabio Cominelli A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer a new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,…
3D views reveal intricacies in intestines that could lead to discoveries for inflammatory bowel disease
A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer an extraordinary new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,Case Western Reserve scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can provide physicians an invaluable diagnostic tool in…