Brendan Creemer, a student from Lewis & Clark College, spent much of the summer in the laboratory of Oregon Health & Science University in the lab of neuroscientists Martha Neuringer, Ph.D., and Trevor McGill, Ph.D., working on a method to improve the ability to use stem cells as a possible treatment for Usher syndrome. Creemer has Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss and deafness. (OHSU/Erik Robinson)
