Brian Druker, M.D., receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium.

Lisa M. Coussens, M.D., Ph.D., says legislation limiting women’s reproductive rights affects a woman’s ability to make difficult, but critical medical decisions when diagnoses with cancer while pregnant or when undergoing cancer therapy and becoming pregnant.

Sandra Rugonyi, Ph.D., and a University of California Irvine scientist are principal investigators for a congenital heart defect study that brought high school students to Rugonyi’s lab and a UCI lab for hands-on research experiences.

Mark Pennesi, M.D., Ph.D., is a new member of the scientific advisory board for Kiora Pharmaceuticals, which is developing new therapies for retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited retinal diseases.

The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research reports that OHSU’s family medicine department is in the top five U.S. family medicine departments that received the most NIH funding in 2022.

Jeffrey Tyner, Ph.D., and other OHSU scientists are advising Portland police on best data practices to help them locate stolen cars.

In a HuffPost story written by a reporter whose father donated his body to OHSU, Tamara Ostervoss says: “Whole-body donation far surpasses the initial gift. Learners take this knowledge gained and apply it to all patients that they treat for the rest of their career. Anyone who has sought health care has benefited from this gift, whether they know it or not.”

OHSU’s Casey Eye Institute and the Foundation Fighting Blindness will co-host their annual Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit April 21 in New Orleans to discuss the latest research and potential treatments for inherited retinal disease.

David Spencer, M.D., and Kim Burchiel, M.D., treated one of the patients whose initial results as a participants in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial have been released. The results indicate interneuron cell therapy substantially reduced seizure frequency for two patients with severe, drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

A story about state legislation that would provide medical debt protections for patients notes Oregon House of Representative officials said OHSU was the only Oregon hospital that has consistently provided charity care since a 2019 law was enacted to require non-profit hospitals to provide financial assistance to both insured and uninsured patients who can’t afford their medical bills.