Oregon Health & Science University is joining a select group of research institutions working to identify biological signals that indicate the presence or progression of Parkinson’s disease. The landmark clinical study will use a combination of brain ...

Gwendolen Haley, PhD, a Behavioral Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow, recently received notification that she will receive a two-year National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) fellowship. Dr. Haley’s background is in studying molecular and ...

Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D., has accepted an invitation to join the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women, a federal advisory committee established by the Affordable Care Act. According to CDC ...

In addressing the exceptional support OHSU has received this year from philanthropic partners, President Joe Robertson, MD, said that during the most difficult economic period in modern memory—when academic health centers across the country were ...

Local dealers and representatives from Hyundai Motor America presented a $100,000 "Hope Grant" to OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital in support of research dedicated to improving the lives of children with cancer. Pediatric cancer patients and their ...

The School of Medicine and OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have launched a new PhD program in cancer biology. Basic scientists and clinicians – 21 primary and 34 adjunct faculty members – will teach the interdisciplinary program, putting the "bench to ...

Medical residents who know about their program’s time off policies are more likely to find time to take care of personal needs, according to a study by OHSU authors published in Medical Education 2010. The researchers concluded there is a connection ...

"How much progress could we make if the smartest people in the world turned their attention to the poorest?" William Gates Sr. addressed this and other questions as the keynote speaker at the Portland Chapter, Achievement Rewards for College ...

Senior women faculty members in the School of Medicine have come together to establish the “Labyrinth Movement.” The name was inspired by the ground-breaking article in the September 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review titled “Women and the ...

David B. Hellmann, MD, MACP, Aliki Perroti Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was the guest speaker at the 2010 Benson/Kendall Annual Visiting Professorship. In his lecture titled, “New Model for Academic Medical Centers,” ...