Breakthrough Breakdowns: Research Week 2023 poster sessions
Presentations from 146 researchers covered topics from biochemistry to pediatric psychology at Research Week 2023 at OHSU’s BICC Library.
Category: Discovery
Four questions with Ashok Muralidaran, M.D.
Ashok Muralidaran, M.D., discusses how his passions inspire his work as a pediatric cardiac surgeon.
Stopping disease before it starts
Across OHSU, doctors and researchers are reimagining early disease detection. This philanthropy-fueled research revolution is already saving lives.
The innovation drive: meet the researchers
OHSU researchers lead innovation and passion through new discoveries, comradery of the OHSU research community and the drive to improve people’s health and well-being. Get to know some of the researchers who are transforming science every day. “I remember in graduate school sometimes doing experiments until quite late into the evening – 11 p.m., 12 […]
High resolution healing
Innovative sensor technology sheds new light on brain structure and transforms neurosurgery.
Donor support sparks crucial advances in pancreatic research
The Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care has leveraged exceptional philanthropic support to achieve great advances in the detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer and disease.
Cell researchers awarded $1 million grant from W.M. Keck Foundation
The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded research duo Catherine Galbraith, Ph.D., and James Galbraith, Ph.D., $1 million over three years to develop a one-of-a-kind imaging and computational system. Their system will seek to decode molecular aggregates — collections of proteins or ribonucleic acid that frequently rearrange inside cells and are involved in cellular information processing.
Four questions with Shivaani Kummar, MD, FACP
Dr. Kummar’s work is dedicated to early phase clinical trials — discovering new therapies for cancer and giving more people access to safe, experimental cancer treatments.
Four questions with Mark Pennesi, MD, PhD
Dr. Pennesi led the first-ever CRISPR gene-editing procedure within the human body, which is showing promising results. We asked him four questions about his research and what this breakthrough could mean.
Four questions with Vivek Unni, MD, PhD
Vivek Unni, MD, PhD, is the inaugural John Hammerstad, MD, Professor of Basic Research of Movement Disorders and the interim director for the Jungers Center for Neurosciences Research. He joined the Department of Neurology and the OHSU Parkinson Center and Movement Disorders Program in 2011. Before coming to OHSU, Unni was an instructor in neurology […]
