OHSU Biofabrication Hub develops organs, bone for pioneering research into cancer, more

$1 million funding will bring state-of-the-art technologies for building with living cells

By Joe Rojas-Burke June 01, 2023 Portland, Oregon

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Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and colleagues developed a bone replacement material that can be injected into bone defects to form a scaffold for bone regeneration. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Shelley Barton, Ph.D.

CEDAR Co-director Shelley Barton, Ph.D. Barton said Knight Cancer researchers are using lab-grown organoids and other biofabricated models to explore fundamental disease processes with more focus and flexibility than is possible with lab animals or cultures of cells growing in a flat plastic dish.(OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., to direct Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub

Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and his cancer research team stand outside the OHSU Knight Cancer Research Building. Bertassoni will lead a newly formed Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub that will allow cancer researchers to dissect the complexities of cancers through lab-grown tissues. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)