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Chasing down cancer


Meet three researchers at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute — all united by the common goal of creating a world free from the burden of cancer.

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What is basic science?


Why do neurons die? That was what OHSU’s Marc Freeman wondered, years ago. Freeman — then a professor of neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and first and foremost a basic scientist — understood that traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease all result from the degeneration of neurons. But he wasn’t initially […]

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Why early detection matters to Bree Mitchell, PhD


A Q&A with Bree Mitchell, PhD, who leads strategic planning, scientific program development, organizational development, operations, and scientific collaboration building as the Associate Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR).

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Zooming in on cells at the atomic level


Scientists have long imagined how they could improve treatments for a host of diseases if they could better see how individual cells carry out the functions of life. That goal is now within reach at OHSU, thanks to a huge new investment in technology that allows researchers to view the makeup of molecules nearly down […]

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An eye-opening era in gene therapy


Pictured Above: Achromatopsia clinical trial patient Annie Joiner. She’s seen the world throughout her life in black and white until a gene therapy clinical trial gave her a first glimpse of color. No one has looked at the colors on an iPhone with as much fascination as Annie Joiner has in the past couple of […]

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