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Pediatric cancer researcher Alex Huang wins St. Baldrick’s Foundation Innovation Award
Alex Huang’s battle to defeat childhood cancers got another boost last week when the St. Baldrick’s Foundation named him among the year’s leading researchers in the field. The volunteer-driven organization, which focuses solely on pediatric and adolescent cancers, awarded 90 grants to scientists at...
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Injectable plant-based nanoparticles delay tumor progression
New research suggests co-administration with chemotherapy drugs most effective strategy Researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine in collaboration with researchers from Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and RWTH Aachen University (Germany) have adapted virus particles tha...
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ϳԹ named to new national colorectal cancer Dream Team
Also receives major grant from Stand Up to Cancer to “starve cancer cells to death” ϳԹ School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer Dream Team that was announced in April at the annual meeting of the American Asso...
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Fighting cancer: University community unites behind Relay for Life to raise money for American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS) provides a key source of funding for some ϳԹ researchers. Honorary chair of ϳԹ’s 2017 Relay for Life Johnie Rose, assistant professor of family medicine and community health, is among ϳԹ’s American Cancer Society-fun...
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Relay for Life
The 2017 Relay For Life will be held from Saturday, April 22, at 11:30 a.m. to Sunday, April 23, at 2:30 a.m. at the North Residential Village Bill Sudeck Track. Relay For Life at ϳԹ is a student-led, campuswide tradition that raises funds for the American Cancer Societ...
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Computer program beats physicians at brain cancer diagnoses
ϳԹ-led research could speed identification of recurrent tumors, eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at ϳԹ has outperformed physicians on a more s...
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5 questions with… cancer disparities researcher Monica Webb Hooper
When Monica Webb Hooper saw a Facebook post about an opening to establish and direct the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at ϳԹ, she knew it had her name written all over it. She didn’t know much about Cleveland, but when she came here from the University of Miami ...