June 12, 2009
Original text appeared in the June 12, 2009 edition of the Case Daily. Brian Cobb, assistant professor of pathology, received the
2009 Pfizer-Showell Travel Award at the annual meeting of the American Association
of Immunologists in May. The award recognizes the professional promise of an early
career investigator, and a single award is made each year. Award decisions are based on
career progress and the submission of an outstanding abstract selected for presentation at
the annual meeting. Cobb is the director of the AAI-John H. Wallace Program for Middle and
High School Science Teachers, the 2005 scholar in the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation
Scholars Program in the Basic Sciences, and a recipient of a 2008 New Innovator Award from
the Office of the Director of the NIH. Learn more.
October 21, 2008
Original text appeared in the October 21, 2008 edition of the Case Daily.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that Brian Cobb
, assistant professor of pathology at the Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine, is a 2008 NIH Director's New Innovator Award Recipient. As one of only 31
grant awardees in the nation, Cobb will receive a grant of $2.35 million over five years for
his research program. The NIH Director's New Innovator Award enables recipients to
pursue exceptionally innovative approaches that could transform biomedical or behavioral
science. Cobb is developing new tools to study how the immune system recognizes
carbohydrate molecules and how they may be used in vaccine development. This prestigious
grant, part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, was established in 2007.
Read more.
September 10, 2008 Dr. Nicholas Ziats was named as one of five Master Teachers of
the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University for the 2008-2009 Academic Year.
Dr. Pamela Davis, Dean of the School of Medcine, described the program as:
"The School of Medicine is pleased to announce a program to designate faculty members
as Master Teachers. These individuals will have, over a long period of time and with
sustained effort, contributed to innovation and excellence in medical and/or
graduate education. They will have consistently been highly rated by their students
and admired by their peers. Most will have won several awards for teaching. They will
have spent substantial effort in teaching, and assisting others in becoming better
teachers. This designation will come with a modest salary stipend, the profound thanks of
the School of Medicine and its students, and the expectation that these
outstanding individuals will continue their excellent teaching during the coming year."
May 18, 2008
At the May 18, 2008 Commencement exercises for the School of Medicine, two of our
Pathology colleagues received awards. Dr. Steven N.
Emancipator received The Kaiser-Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching
for pre-clinical faculty and Dr. Clifford V. Harding received
The Gender-Equity award for pre-clinical faculty. These are very prestigious awards and let
us congratulate them for their outstanding effort.
