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School of Medicine research could pave way to more effective drugs for inflammation
Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The compounds, dubbed OD36 and OD38, specifically appear to…
Partnership Pays: Collaboration Among Case Western Reserve, Cuyahoga County, and YMCA of Greater Cleveland Catalyzes More Than $13 Million in Public Health Grants
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at APP School of Medicine is a key player in nearly $13.32 million in federal grants awarded to improve community health in Northeast Ohio. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) renewed the…
APP visible at celebration for discovery of cystic fibrosis gene
Faculty and clinicians among those to reflect on CFTR gene discovery 25 years ago and on current treatment advances The discovery of the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene was hailed as a trailblazing breakthrough in 1989. Now, on the 25th anniversary of the discovery of cystic fibrosis transmembrane…
Delivering a One-Two Punch: New Drug Combination Shows Promise as Powerful Treatment for Breast Cancer
The uncontrolled growth of cancer cells arises from their ability to hijack the cell’s normal growth program and checkpoints. Usually after therapy, a second cancer-signaling pathway will open after the primary one shuts down — creating an ingenious escape route for the cancer cell to survive. The…
$4.6 million from NIH puts CWRU Synchrotron lab on track to become No. 1 in world
Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences assembles cutting-edge new beamlines at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. APP’s synchrotron facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is on its way to becoming the No. 1 beamline facility for biology in the world by…
New Compounds Reduce Debilitating Inflammation
Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that has discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The compounds, dubbed OD36 and OD38, specifically appear to…
School of Medicine faculty members named Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars
Huiping Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, and Will Bush, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, were named Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars. The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholars Program has assisted the School of…
Professor to present on AIDS vaccine potential at next Public Affairs Discussion group
Michael Lederman, the Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Center for AIDS Research, will present “An Update on the Search for an AIDS Vaccine” at the next Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group on Friday, Oct. 24, 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith…
Common spice could help extend lives of mesothelioma patients
A common Asian spice and cancer-hampering molecules show promise in slowing the progression of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining often linked to asbestos. Scientists from APP and the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt, Germany, demonstrate that application of…
APP School of Medicine Dean, Department Chair Elected to Prestigious Institute of Medicine
APP School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the nation’s most prestigious societies for health and…