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Mark Williams named chief strategy officer for the Knight Cancer Institute

October 21, 2016

Today OHSU announced Mark B. Williams has accepted the role of chief strategy officer for the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. This is a new position focused on overseeing the budget and long-term financial sustainability of the Knight Cancer Institute.

Free networking event for job seekers with disabilities

October 20, 2016

Seventh annual Night for Networking features more than 50 employers committed to workforce diversity

NIH director Dr. Francis Collins to present the Mark O. Hatfield Lecture

October 18, 2016

CALENDAR ALERT: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will give this year’s Mark O. Hatfield Lecture.

Fiscal Year 2016 achievements in technology transfer, business development

October 13, 2016

For 11 years, TTBD has hosted an award ceremony to celebrate university accomplishments and recognize OHSU employees who’ve made significant contributions to innovation, entrepreneurship, industry partnership, patenting, and technology commercialization. Following are highlights from last night’s 2016 TTBD Awards Ceremony.

Seriously injured patients in rural areas less likely to be treated at major trauma centers

By Tracy Brawley October 12, 2016

New research conducted at the OHSU Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine uncovered disparities in timely access to emergency trauma care in rural versus urban communities.

Doernbecher researchers awarded more than $9 million to fight Fanconi anemia

By Tracy Brawley October 10, 2016

Thanks to a $9.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a team led by Markus Grompe, M.D., director of the Oregon Stem Cell Center at OHSU and the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, will work to understand human response to novel drug treatments that have shown promise in FA-positive animal models.

OHSU commits to address gun violence as a public health issue

By Erin Hoover Barnett October 05, 2016

OHSU leaders, faculty, staff and students gathered in the late afternoon rain outside Mackenzie Hall to mark an institution-wide commitment to address gun violence as a public health issue.

Hormone replacement therapy improves cognition in older female monkeys

By Erik Robinson October 05, 2016

In a new study published online today in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers found that chronic administration of estradiol boosts cognitive performance in aged female rhesus monkeys.

Targeted drug tames atopic eczema in Phase III trials

October 03, 2016

A drug that blocks the chemical messengers that are overactive in allergic reactions proved effective in clearing or reducing symptoms caused by atopic eczema, based on results from an international Phase III clinical trial led by OHSU in Portland, Oregon.

New study raises possibility of treating disease through amniotic fluid

By Erik Robinson September 30, 2016

A breakthrough study published online this week in the journal Nucleic Acids Research suggests that it may be possible to treat genetic disease detected in the womb by safely and efficiently delivering gene-altering therapies through a kind of reverse amniocentesis.

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