CEDAR researcher: Matthew Rames, Ph.D.
Rames’ work with microscopy and imaging technologies allows him to look at cellular structures like mitochondria and the ways they’re impacted by cancer.
Impact Area: Cancer
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CEDAR researcher: Xubo Song, Ph.D.
Song specializes in machine learning and AI, applying them to biomedical data, especially images focusing on cancer.
CEDAR researcher: Ece Ekşi, Ph.D.
Ekşi and her team investigate how interactions between nerves and cancer happen at the molecular level, with the goal of preventing it.
CEDAR researcher: Joshua Moreau, Ph.D.
Moreau’s lab has found promising research on a type of immune cell, the memory B cell, that could act as a therapeutic target for cancer.
CEDAR researcher: Cristiane Miranda Franca, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Franca is a core faculty member in the Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub, recreating environments on-a-chip to study epithelial cancer development.
CEDAR researcher: Carolyn Schutt Ibsen, Ph.D.
Schutt Ibsen uses ultrasound waves to control the behavior of cells deep within the tissues she engineers, allowing for precise genetic changes.
Knight Cancer Challenge: A decade of impact
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Research
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A new era of cancer care
OHSU is leading us into a new age of understanding a disease that has afflicted humans from the very beginning.
