Burwitz lab - studying hepatitis B virus
Credit: OHSU News
Lauren Rust, Ph.D., assistant staff scientist, opens a cryogenic freezer in the lab of Benjamin J. Burwitz, Ph.D., in the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Burwitz and Rust have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model — genetically modified to carry a human gene — for studying hepatitis B virus. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)