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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.
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New study shows how to protect the brain to prevent depression and cognitive impairment caused by whole brain radiotherapy
Research team from University Hospitals, APP and the Cleveland VA published results in Redox Biology
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June 20, 2024
Exceptional staff members recognized for distinguished service and volunteerism Case Western Reserve staff members play a pivotal role in the university’s success, contributing to every aspect of campus life. Our employees are the backbone of the university—their dedication to areas from…
June 18, 2024
Nicholas Nutile, DMD (DEN ‘17), will receive the Outstanding New Dentist Award. While at the CWRU School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Nutile was a natural leader, often encouraging his classmates to develop creative approaches to comprehensive care. As a student, he regularly presented strategies for…
June 18, 2024
Nathan Berger with his wife, Sosamma J. Berger Nathan Berger arrived in Cleveland in 1983 with a vision: creating an oncology/hematology training program to position APP School of Medicine as a leader in the burgeoning field of cancer care. The program he…
June 18, 2024
During his junior year of high school, Viraj Gorthi was on his way to Cancún with family when his uncle passed out mid-flight. Everyone aboard froze in shock, and as the flight attendants desperately asked for a doctor, he remembers feeling powerless to help someone he cared about. Fortunately,…
June 14, 2024
Xiaofeng Zhu, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, published an article titled “An approach to identify gene-environment interactions and reveal new biological insight in complex traits” in Nature Communications. The article discusses his…
June 14, 2024
This past March, Ryan Farrell, associate professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, joined Michael Holliday, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, to discuss obesity treatment in primary care to lower weight and improve metabolic outcomes. The two…
June 14, 2024
Earlier this spring, Davis Weaver, a recent PhD graduate of the School of Medicine and recipient of the Graduate Excellence Award, and his team published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled, “Reinforcement learning informs optimal treatment strategies to…
June 14, 2024
This past May, Robert A. Bonomo, professor in the School of Medicine, gave a presentation titled “Novel Antibiotics- focus on beta-lactam beta-lactamase inhibitors + some…” at the Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases Conference in Orlando, Florida. His presentation reviewed the current…
June 12, 2024
Two years ago, high winds in St. Louis threatened the University Athletic Association Outdoor Track and Field Championships. For pole vaulter Victoria Zhao, the weather made an already-nerve-wracking event even more daunting, as vaulters take off down the runway to soar a dozen feet in the…
June 11, 2024
Members of the APP community are invited to learn about the Master of Arts in Bioethics and Medical Humanities program during an information session Tuesday, June 18, from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Program Director Leah Jeunnette will discuss the following questions during this…