Online tour: Elks Children’s Eye Clinic
The Elks Children’s Eye Clinic opened in December 2020 as the first free-standing eye institute for pediatric patients to advance work in children’s eye care.
Category: Discovery
Research reboot
After months of shutdown, OHSU labs are beginning to resume research efforts that were stalled by the pandemic. We explore what scientists’ ‘new normal’ looks like now.
Understanding the mystery of COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus spreads across the nation and around the world, it mutates. Understanding those different strains of the virus — and our immune response — is crucial. Knowing which strains respond to specific treatments is a vital part of managing the pandemic. Several OHSU scientists have pivoted their research to contribute to the global effort of tackling COVID-19.
Shaping research
Martin Schreiber has built an illustrious career in medicine and the military, shaping how the two can influence each other.
Building a COVID-19 testing lab
Two weeks. That’s all it took for Donna Hansel, MD, PhD, and her team, together with colleagues at the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, to build, stock and staff a new clinical testing laboratory for COVID-19 — all from scratch. The brand-new microbiology lab enables OHSU researchers to process COVID-19 tests in-house, for faster […]
Why do more women get Alzheimer’s?
Almost two-thirds of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease are women. There is a myth that the discrepancy is simply due to women living longer than men. But the truth is much more complicated. Now scientists at OHSU have found a key to what might be causing the difference, and they are working to find a […]
Kids need research just for them
Three physicians at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital discuss why pediatric research is so important.
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.
The Challenger: Amanda Lund, PhD
Cancer research is filled with preconceived notions — and there’s nothing Amanda Lund, PhD, loves better than challenging them. Through her study of the lymphatic system in melanoma and other skin cancers, she’s shining a light on an area of research that previously hasn’t gotten much love. “Lymphatics are rarely studied, but they could be […]
