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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OHSU research demonstrates not all embryonic stem cells are equal; produces the world’s first primate chimeric offspring
January 05, 2012
Newly published research by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University provides significant new information about how early embryonic stem cells develop and take part in formation of the primate species. The research, which took place at OHSU’s ...
Oregon's program to improve care for those with advanced illness highlighted in JAMA
January 03, 2012
Oregon's groundbreaking Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment program (POLST) is featured in the latest edition of the Journal of The American Medical Association. The program, which was created by health care professionals two decades ago in ...
Health care, home, school differ for children with special health care needs
December 05, 2011
The first federally funded report to compare children with special health care needs to children without reveals 14 percent to 19 percent of children in the United States have a special health care need and their insurance is inadequate to cover the ...
Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center to review bone growth product
December 05, 2011
Yale School of Medicine has chosen the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center at Oregon Health & Science University as one of two research centers that will independently review all clinical studies of a controversial product used in spinal surgeries ...
OHSU study breaks new ground in understanding drug-induced deafness
November 30, 2011
Peter Steyger's research on hearing is very personal. That's because Steyger — a research scientist with the Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University — is deaf. Now Steyger has published groundbreaking research that is as ...
NIH honors OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s David Dilts for system to improve clinical trial recruitment
November 23, 2011
David Dilts, Ph.D., M.B.A., a professor in the Division of Management at Oregon Health & Science University and a member of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute management team, received a 2011 group merit award from the National Institutes of Health ...
OHSU Technology Transfer achieves record year for industry-sponsored research
November 17, 2011
Oregon Health & Science University’s Technology Transfer and Business Development team completed a record number of industry-sponsored research agreements, 118, during fiscal 2011. Those agreements provided more than $12 million in awards for ...
OHSU researchers partner with women firefighters to protect children
November 15, 2011
Children younger than 5 are particularly vulnerable to fire- and heat-related injury and trauma in the home. Burns, scalds and electrical injuries can be catastrophic among this age group and often result in disfigurement and disability. To ensure ...
Loss of weight associated with chronic illness may soon have first treatment
November 14, 2011
Patients with cancer, heart disease and other chronic illness struggle not only with complications inherent to their disease, they also experience an involuntary loss of weight and muscle mass triggered by the body’s natural response to infection and ...
Medical Research Foundation announces 2011 award winners
November 10, 2011
The Medical Research Foundation of Oregon has announced the recipients of its 2011 awards for scientific leadership and innovation in Oregon. The awards were presented Nov. 9 at a reception at Portland's Governor Hotel. Honorees The MRF presented a ...