KATU-TV reports that, after three volunteer trips to Ukraine, training more than 1,500 people in 16 cities, Stephen Donnelly, M.D., left his role as an emergency medicine faculty member who works out of Columbia Memorial in Astoria to train health care workers to train health care workers: "I can teach people to teach others, then they can continue to save lives beyond just even the trips where I’m there. The reason for continuing is I think the people of Ukraine are amazing."

In a Wall Street Journal story about a pilot study in Pittsburgh using spinal stimulation to treat stroke, Helmi Lutsep, M.D., says, “I think it is amazing. I think patients will be thrilled if this comes to fruition.”

David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., who co-invented the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, is elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Larry Sherman, Ph. D., joins Portland Chamber Orchestra and singer/composer Naomi LaViolette for a spirited lecture on love and music on Valentine’s Day.

The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute announces Lisa Coussens, Ph.D., and Shivaani Kummar, M.D., as the institute’s deputy directors; and, Tom Sellers, M.D., as the lead research officer.

Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and colleagues employ 3D-printing techniques to create small, biologically compatible structures containing cells. Their research explores how cancer metastasizes and how bioprinting could one day create organs for transplantation and more. Haylie Helms, M.S., explains why she bio-prints individual cancer cells in different patterns: “It’s not just the genetic mutations within the cancer that caused it [to form]. It’s also how the cells are arranged. If one cell type is next to a different cell type, that can actually indicate if you’re going to have a better or worse prognosis.”

OPB-Radio reports Oregon Senate Bill 523 would create a new type of nursing degree through community colleges. In a statement, OHSU points to its community college-based program that leads to a fully qualified nursing degree and says, “Senate Bill 523 does not address those key limitations to expanding nursing education capacity, and instead would allow the creation of novel nursing degrees that would duplicate existing nursing education programs in all but their ability to set students on a path toward career and educational growth.”

Patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplant to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia between January 2014 and April 2021 at OHSU and Stanford University were monitored for minimal residual disease in a multicenter retrospective study.

Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and colleagues employ 3D-printing techniques to create small, biologically compatible structures containing cells. Their research explores how cancer metastasizes and how bioprinting could one day create organs for transplantation and more. Haylie Helms, M.S., explains why she bio-prints individual cancer cells in different patterns: “It’s not just the genetic mutations within the cancer that caused it [to form]. It’s also how the cells are arranged. If one cell type is next to a different cell type, that can actually indicate if you’re going to have a better or worse prognosis.”

Cells are the tiny building blocks of life, and these cells are key to the Oregon Health and Science University researcher’s cutting-edge work in a medical science field called biofabrication – essentially building with biology. One of the long-term goals for biofabrication is creating transplantable human organs.