
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 ӰƵ know how to make headlines.

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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at ӰƵ suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
Recent News

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July 26, 2024
Earlier this year, Department of Genetics professor Joel Sax, along with Christopher McFarland, assistant professor at the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Bryan Carroll, associate professor for the Department of Dermatology, published an article titled “Limitations of the Commerciall...

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July 23, 2024
ӰƵ one of 16 best medical schools for research
ӰƵ School of Medicine is among the country’s top medical schools for research, according to the annual listing from U.S. News & World Report. For its 2025 ratings, the publication drastically adjusted its ...

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July 19, 2024
Charlems Alvarez Jimenez, a postdoctoral scholar at ӰƵ, was recently selected for the PhRMA Foundation’s 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Translational Medicine. This prestigious award will support Alvarez Jimenez’s research in rectal cancer.
Approximately 40,000 p...

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July 16, 2024
There’s only one U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy for an inherited retinal disease, and dozens of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) genes for which no therapy is available.
With a new three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate pr...

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July 16, 2024
The evolution of resistance to diseases, from infectious illnesses to cancers, poses a formidable challenge.
Despite the expectation that resistance-conferring mutations would dwindle in the absence of treatment due to a reduced growth rate, preexisting resistance is pervasive across diseases that ...
July 12, 2024
Reda Riffi, a first-generation student at ӰƵ, was selected to participate in the BioMed Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University this summer. Riffi is majoring in neuroscience and conducts research at CWRU in the Xiong Lab.
The BioMed Amgen Scholars Program is a highly...

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July 12, 2024
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to join the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Learning Group for its next meeting Wednesday, July 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
During these meetings, attendees...

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July 12, 2024
The American Diabetes Association - Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Interest Group recently named Armando Vergara-Martel, research assistant in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the School of Medicine, a winner of its Early Career Abstract Award.
The title of Vergara-Martel’s abstract is...

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July 09, 2024
Looking for a way to develop yourself and stand out in your career? Consider the Master of Arts in Bioethics and Medical Humanities program at ӰƵ. Members of the campus community can learn about the program during a virtual information session Tuesday, July 16, from 4 to...

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July 08, 2024
Join the School of Medicine for a monthly seminar series hosted by the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health titled “Seeding Fresh Ideas for Food Justice Lessons from the Nourishing Power Fellowship” Tuesday, July 16, from 9 to 10 a.m.
This virtual panel discussion will feature graduate...