Here are just a few of the incredible people at the Knight Cancer Institute working to transform cancer science, early detection and the future of patient care. Read the full story.
Matthew Rames, Ph.D.
Joined OHSU from University of California, Santa Cruz
Research engineer at CEDAR
After coming to OHSU as a Ph.D. student focused on high-resolution microscopy, Rames found himself overlapping with the world of cancer research. Rames’ work with microscopy and imaging technologies allows him to look at cellular structures like mitochondria and the ways they’re impacted by cancer.
Rames’ microscopic images give a precise picture of how the mechanisms behind cancer function. Since completing his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 2022, he now has a special focus on precision oncology and aims to use his imaging data to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities in cancer patients.
In 2024, Rames contributed to a team project on antibody bioengineering and intercellular communication that won an award in the translational research category from the Innovation Showcase at the Oregon Biotech Summit.
“CEDAR has been a great place to learn and grow and develop. It’s multidisciplinary; it’s a very different type of research environment. It’s been wonderful to grow alongside CEDAR, because back when I joined, we had maybe 20 people, and now we’re at our full operating size of around 200. It’s great to be a member of such a large, very knowledgeable, diligent center here trying to figure out the complexities of early cancer and how we can learn and develop ways to both understand it and treat it. I’m excited to further develop interdisciplinary methods for unraveling complexities in both early cancer and emerging precision oncology treatments.”
