Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
November 06, 2013
The weekly Public Affairs Discussion Group will continue this week with a talk titled, “Is It or Is It Not Cancer? Is That the Question?”
Nathan Berger, the Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine, director of the Center for Science, Health and Society and professor of medicine, biochemistry...
November 05, 2013
Grant will allow exploration of new methods designed to treat cancer
Derek Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the ϳԹ School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH...
October 03, 2013
The field of gene therapy promises to dramatically transform the treatment of disease, as well as fundamentally change the delivery of health care in the 21st century. A new book provides a comprehensive review of the field of gene-based therapeutics in an expanded third edition textbook that concen...
August 28, 2013
In 1983, professor Nathan Berger hired Stanton Gerson, fresh out of his fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, to join the ϳԹ School of Medicine Division of Hematology Oncology. The next year, when Gerson’s interest turned to gene therapy, he formed a research partner...
August 14, 2013
Researchers from ϳԹ School of Dental Medicine have discovered how a common oral bacterium can contribute to colorectal cancer—a finding that opens promising new research avenues for the development of approaches to prevent and treat the disease.
“We found this cancer is...
June 28, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report
Collaboration among ϳԹ, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals earns high praise from expert reviewers
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCCC) again demonstrated the compelling power of partnership in secu...
June 25, 2013
The Prevention Research Center for Health Neighborhoods at ϳԹ will continue its seminar series with a presentation by Siran Koroukian, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics. Koroukian, also director of the Clinical and Translational Science Center’s Popul...
June 03, 2013
Portable, inexpensive diagnosis to enable more effective treatment
A group of researchers from ϳԹ’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are lining a vest with ultrasound sensors, signal processing electronics and other high-tech gear. Their goal is ...
May 21, 2013
Some prostate cancer patients unnecessarily undergo surgery or harsh treatments because science fails to identify the differences between slow-growing and aggressive forms of the disease. Researchers at ϳԹ and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are developing te...
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May 06, 2013
A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at ϳԹ School of Medicine has developed a novel method to disrupt this growth-signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a ...