For Lara Davis, MD, a physician-scientist, seeing patients drives home the importance of her research on a daily basis. All too often, she has to tell patients in her clinic that there are currently no medicines that can cure their sarcoma. “That’s not okay,” she said. “We need to be making more progress, faster progress.” […]
Growing up as a member of the Oneida and Stockbridge-Munsee Nations in Wisconsin, Amanda Bruegl, MD, saw how difficult it was for her Native community to access good medical care. So from an early age, she resolved to be part of the solution. Originally, she thought she’d become a primary care doctor — then a […]
Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Those are the kinds of big questions that Missy Wong, PhD, pondered as a little girl. The daughter of a surgeon and a teacher, Wong always figured she’d go into medicine — then she watched her dad do a total knee replacement. “I was like, […]
Solving some of cancer’s most challenging riddles requires the ability to see the big picture. Luckily, this is something that Shannon McWeeney, PhD, is exceedingly good at. As the head of bioinformatics and computational biology and associate director of computational biomedicine, McWeeney and her team helped to create a new data visualization platform called Vizome. […]
Anupriya Agarwal, PhD, has always preferred to blaze her own trail. Growing up in a small town in northern India, where it was not common for women to pursue higher education, she aspired for more. “I was inspired by all the female scientists and researchers I learned about in school,” she said. Agarwal chose to […]
Kimberly Beatty, Ph.D., at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, is focused on using new chemical probes to illuminate cancer at the molecular level.
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.
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable disease. The cause is unknown, and people who suffer experience a range of symptoms that come and go over time. Although scientists are making progress on more affordable, effective treatments, the sense of uncertainty when dealing with this disease is hard to ignore. So, when Rebecca Spain, MD, MSPH, received […]
Stefanie Kaech Petrie, PhD, helps researchers use microscopes to shed light on the structure and function of cells, leading to advancements in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.
Imagine standing on the moon and looking through a telescope so powerful, you can see what someone on Earth is texting on their cell phone. That’s the type of analogy that can be made to describe cryo-EM, a new imaging technology being used at OHSU that allows researchers to zoom in on cells at nearly […]
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