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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
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January 23, 2024
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to learn about the Medicine, Society and Culture Concentration within ӰƵ’s Master of Arts in Bioethics and Medical Humanities program. A virtual information session, titled “Explore Health Beyond the Sc...

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January 19, 2024
Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, Chair of the Genetics and Genome Sciences Department and co-leader of Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, was awarded a grant for $2,012,500 from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute for his research titled Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramm...
January 18, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce Agata Exner, PhD, has been appointed director of ӰƵ’s Center for Imaging Research (CCIR). Dr. Exner serves as the Henry Willson Payne Professor and vice chair of basic research in the Department of Radiology and holds an adjunct...

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January 18, 2024
This article originally appeared in the fall/winter 2023 edition of Think magazine. This semester, The Daily will share some of the articles from the latest edition of the magazine. View more stories at case.edu/think.
Nearly a year ago, on Feb. 3, just before 9 p.m., Ashley McCollum heard a loud b...

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January 17, 2024
ӰƵ students are invited to join the Master of Science in Medical Physiology program for a virtual admissions open office hour Thursday, Jan. 18, at 1 p.m.
Samantha Baker, director of admissions, will be available to answer questions about admissions, curriculum, enrichm...

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January 17, 2024
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to learn more about the field of regenerative medicine and entrepreneurship (RGME), including its ties to CWRU and Cleveland. A virtual informational session titled “Regenerative Medicine and Entrepreneurship: CWRU and You!” will b...

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January 12, 2024
Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at ӰƵ School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award.
Flask is also director of ...

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January 12, 2024
JungA "Alexa" Woo, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at ӰƵ School of Medicine, was awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience in November.
The award recognizes her contribution to the advancement of wo...

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January 12, 2024
Olivia Dhaliwal, a fourth-year medical student, was named a Pisacano Leadership Foundation 2024 scholar in family medicine.
Prior to beginning medical school, Dhaliwal worked with Teach for America, through which she contributed to efforts to cure Hepatitis C on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. She...

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January 11, 2024
When Dean Stan Gerson called Paul Tesar to the stage at the School of Medicine’s State of the School address last month, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics believed he’d be speaking about the Institute of Glial Sciences—a new center he’s directing. Instead, as...