Inspired by
Teen Jeopardy! champion Avi Gupta was inspired to share $10,000 of his winnings with the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute for pancreatic cancer research in honor of Alex Trebek.
Author: Heather McLendon
I am alive. I am strong.
Brenna Lindsley was 38 when learned she had breast cancer last spring. This year, she celebrated her “Cancerversary” by traveling to Scotland by herself.
Lisa Silbert: The core of an Alzheimer’s research powerhouse
Lisa Silbert, MD, heads the neuroimaging core at OHSU and is leading efforts to understand Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Gene repair: OHSU shows the world how it’s done
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, PhD, electrified the international scientific community by publishing research showing that it’s possible to repair a disease-causing gene in a human embryo.
Donor spotlight: Glenn and Marilyn Hart
Marilyn Hart jokes that her eye doctor once told her she could be a poster child for successful eye surgeries. Hart is grateful for the care she has received at Casey Eye Institute over the last 25 years.
Beyond ADHD
Joel Nigg, PhD, is one of the world’s top ADHD researchers. He aims to understand the different causes and influences for ADHD, find ways to detect it better and develop more effective treatments.
Beat by beat
Five months before Bianca Anderson was due to give birth, her baby, Jacob, was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect. With the help of OHSU Doernbecher’s fetal therapy program, Bianca’s health care team created an individualized health care plan to treat Jacob’s disease.
Unraveling the mysteries of myelin
Kelly Monk, PhD, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the cells that form myelin, the protective sheath around axons that is damaged in diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
Helping NASA’S mission to Mars
Missions to deep space involve risk. The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) — which works with NASA — has tapped OHSU’s Jonathan Lindner, MD to find better ways to screen astronaut candidates for cardiovascular damage before they reach deep space.
