NIH awards OHSU scientists, collaborators $8.4 million to develop a cure for HIV
Only a handful of people in history have been cured of the virus; three have agreed to kick off landmark research project led by OHSU.
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Renowned neurobiologist to lead premier neuroscience research institute
April 21, 2016
Marc Freeman, Ph.D., a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a fast-rising star in the field of biology, will direct the Oregon Health & Science University Vollum Institute. The institute is widely recognized as a center of ...
New study shows children benefited most from gene therapy for LCA, a rare eye disease
April 15, 2016
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University’s Casey Eye Institute and Baylor College of Medicine’s Cullen Eye Institute published findings from a two-year Phase I clinical trial in the journal Ophthalmology, which showed that children had the ...
Study: Hidden genetic mutations in patient-derived stem cells could ultimately undermine therapeutic benefit
April 14, 2016
For the first time, scientists have confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that as people age, they accumulate gene mutations in their mitochondria -- cells' energy source. A team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., director of the Center for Embryonic ...
CRAB, Knight Cancer Institute join forces to advance cancer research through clinical trials
April 13, 2016
Cancer Research And Biostatistics (CRAB) and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University have signed a memorandum of understanding to support clinical and translational research at the Knight Cancer Institute using advanced ...
Researchers visualize brain’s serotonin pump, provide blueprint for design of new, more effective SSRIs
April 06, 2016
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have uncovered remarkably detailed 3-D views of one of the most important transporters in the brain - the serotonin transporter. Their study, published online today in the journal ...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research join Collaborative Cancer Cloud
March 31, 2016
The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University and Intel Corporation are expanding participation in the Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a distributed precision medicine analytics platform, to include Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and ...
Oregon’s new birth control law increases access, but more still to be done
March 28, 2016
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, University of Minnesota School of Public Health and George Mason University applaud Oregon’s new birth control law which allows women age 18 or older to obtain some methods of hormonal contraception ...
Study shows tetanus shots needed every 30 years, not every 10
March 22, 2016
A revised adult vaccination schedule could save millions in health care costs.
Giving antibodies to infant macaques exposed to an HIV-like virus could clear the infection
March 21, 2016
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center today revealed that infant rhesus macaques treated with antibodies within 24 hours of being exposed to SHIV, a chimeric simian virus that bears the HIV envelope protein, were completely cleared ...
Nanotechnology expert selected to lead OHSU’s large-scale early cancer detection initiative
March 07, 2016
A scientific innovator, whose achievements range from developing diagnostic biochips to creating nanoscale cancer-fighting “smart bullets” that deliver treatments to tumor cells, has been recruited to the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute to lead the first ...