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As National Rare Cancer Day nears (Sept. 30), Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research announces major gift to spur cross-country collaboration Rare cancers are those that affect fewer than 15 of 100,000 people each year. But there are more than 200 types of rare cancer that comprise one-quarter of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. While…

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ collaborates with Epic on new Lyceum platform to introduce medical students to electronic health records Becomes first medical school to use the technology The ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine is the first medical school to use Epic’s new Lyceum platform, which aims to provide first-year medical…

When Olubukola Abiona began a four-year postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center in 2017, she knew she’d gain valuable experience—but had no idea just how impactful her efforts would be.  Not long later, those impacts became clear: Her team’s research took center stage worldwide as the…

Third-year ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ medical student Victoria Wu knows a thing or two about economics. She earned her undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania in the subject, and is using that expertise to study financial toxicity and how it affects lymphoma patients. It’s research she will soon present at the American Society of…

Awarded five-year, $3.05 million grant from National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute

Fellows program to attract leading researchers to collaborate with university and hospital colleagues to develop promising solutions—and get them to patients After helping to launch the careers of 30 medical school researchers, the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation is partnering again with ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€”this time to…

Fabio Cominelli’s contributions to groundbreaking research on gastrointestinal conditions, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, has helped alleviate pain and complications for tens of millions of people worldwide living with these disorders. At ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine, the internationally recognized…

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students of the School of Medicine, The university is kicking off the fall semester by sponsoring Innovation Week, a week-long series of lectures, workshops and events highlighting innovation at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€”what an exciting way to start the fall semester. 

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ biochemical researchers have identified a new function of a key protein that leads to cancer—a finding they believe could lead to more effective treatments for a range of cancers and other diseases. The protein is LSD1 (lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A), which functions as a type of traffic cop inside human…

Third-year ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ medical student Archana Murali has earned Alpha Omega Alpha’s 2023 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship for her work studying intraocular pressure reduction pathways and the potential treatment for glaucoma using a specific prostaglandin analog. The national medical honor society awards the $5,…

Karen B. Mulloy, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine associate professor, was recognized for a career advocating for the health and safety of workers in the U.S. and internationally.  

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students of the School of Medicine,  Please join me in welcoming Paul Bristol to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine as Vice Dean of Finance and Administration. 

Renamed Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio to reflect even broader reach with addition of two partner institutions The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) a seven-year, $56.3 million grant to…

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students of the School of Medicine, I am pleased to share that the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) in the School of Medicine has received a $56.3M seven-year grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health…