Stories

Research Week 2017: Understanding the brain: ‘We’ve got a lot of work to do’

By Erik Robinson May 04, 2017

Kevin Wright, Ph.D. is an assistant professor running his own laboratory in OHSU’s Vollum Institute, where he applies his natural curiosity toward solving one of the most formidable puzzles in science and medicine: how the nervous system works.

Research Week 2017: An OB-GYN who crosses borders and pushes boundaries

By Ariane Le Chevallier May 03, 2017

Maria Isabel Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., cares for patients at the OHSU Center for Women’s Health and finds satisfaction in supporting women, particularly teens, through important or challenging life events. As with many faculty members at OHSU, her clinical work drives her research.

Research Week 2017: Investment in basic research is the key to unlocking the brain’s secrets

By Erik Robinson May 03, 2017

Gail Mandel, Ph.D., is helping to develop a gene therapy technique to repair a mutation on the X chromosome which causes the neurological disease Rett syndrome.

Research Week 2017: Leaving your comfort zone, ‘cross training’ in conducting exercise research

By Amanda Gibbs May 02, 2017

Kerri Winters-Stone, Ph.D., researches the use of physical activity to prevent and manage chronic disease. Her studies have shown that cancer survivors can benefit from exercise that reverses treatment-related side effects and symptoms.

Research Week 2017: A new approach to permanent birth control for women

By Ariane Le Chevallier May 02, 2017

On any given day, you can find Jeffrey Jensen, M.D., M.P.H., caring for patients, writing NIH grants, teaching medical students or looking at the latest test results in his lab at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. But what gets him up every morning is his commitment to making birth control safer and more effective for women around the world.

Research Week 2017: ‘How can we use our brains to understand our brains?’

By Erik Robinson May 01, 2017

Tianyi Mao, Ph.D., maps what she refers to as the “connectome,” how different parts of the brain connect together to perform different tasks.

Research Week 2017: Why should anyone care about aflatoxins? Communicating the need for basic science around the world

By Amanda Gibbs May 01, 2017

Stephen Lloyd's recent research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drew upon his expertise as a cancer biologist and focused on a global health problem affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a specific class of toxic compounds, called aflatoxins, are commonly found in food sources.

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