Meet the designers: Doernbecher Freestyle 21
Meet the six patient designers of Doernbecher Freestyle 21: Sergio, Molly, Raegan, Khovny, Oli and Zach
Author: Cecily Williams
Celebrating the Kuni Foundation’s $20 million in giving
Hear about the promising discoveries of four researchers at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute who have received grants from the Kuni Foundation.
Just for kids: the vital role of pediatric research
Hear from three OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital providers from a variety of specialties for insight into the vital and life-saving importance of pediatric research.
Every square mile
OHSU is so much more than what happens within a clinic or classroom. Read about the programs, partners and people across the state that create an impact across all 96,000 square miles of Oregon.
CEDAR researcher: Thuy Ngo, Ph.D.
Ngo’s work involves analyzing blood samples for signs of early disease, aiming to detect signals from the body that mark transitions from healthy to cancerous states.
CEDAR researcher: Matthew Rames, Ph.D.
Rames’ work with microscopy and imaging technologies allows him to look at cellular structures like mitochondria and the ways they’re impacted by cancer.
CEDAR researcher: Xubo Song, Ph.D.
Song specializes in machine learning and AI, applying them to biomedical data, especially images focusing on cancer.
CEDAR researcher: Ece Ekşi, Ph.D.
Ekşi and her team investigate how interactions between nerves and cancer happen at the molecular level, with the goal of preventing it.
CEDAR researcher: Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Bertassoni leads a multidisciplinary research group working on several groundbreaking uses of biofabrication to study cancer, including 3D bioprinting, organs-on-a-chip, and stem cell regenerative medicine.
CEDAR researcher: Joshua Moreau, Ph.D.
Moreau’s lab has found promising research on a type of immune cell, the memory B cell, that could act as a therapeutic target for cancer.
