Fresh approach to TB vaccine offers better protection
January 17, 2018
A unique platform that resulted in a promising HIV vaccine has also led to a new, highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis that is moving toward testing in humans.
President Robertson: ‘We are still in’
June 09, 2017
Today, OHSU joins many others in Oregon and across our nation in declaring our continued support of climate action to meet the Paris Agreement.
The critical role of nonhuman primates in medical research
March 13, 2017
Research with nonhuman primates, or NHPs – monkeys for the most part – has led to critical health advances that have saved or improved millions of human lives.
Vaccine technology developed by OHSU scientists acquired by industry leaders
January 25, 2017
A first-of-its-kind vaccine technology platform developed by renowned scientists at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, has been acquired by Vir Biotechnology, a San Francisco-based biotech startup backed by leading industry investor ARCH Venture Partners and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a leading funder of global health initiatives.
Class of 2020 largest, most diverse in School of Medicine history
August 11, 2016
OHSU School of Medicine will celebrate its 129th entering class with a White Coat Ceremony symbolizing the beginning of each M.D. student’s journey to becoming a physician.
OHSU, PSU announce dean of new School of Public Health
July 08, 2016
Following a national search, David Bangsberg, M.D., M.P.H. has been named the founding dean of the new OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, effective Friday, Sept. 16. As dean, Bangsberg will establish the first urban school of public health in Oregon, a ...
Top HIV Scientists Awarded $42 Million Grant from NIH
June 20, 2016
With $42 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Oregon Health &Science University (OHSU) will lead a five-year research initiative to advance efforts to cure and ...
Estudio revela que las vacunas antitetánicas se pueden aplicar cada 30 años, no 10
March 22, 2016
Modificar el calendario de vacunación de adultos podría ahorrar millones en costos de atención médica.
Study shows tetanus shots needed every 30 years, not every 10
March 22, 2016
A revised adult vaccination schedule could save millions in health care costs.
Giving antibodies to infant macaques exposed to an HIV-like virus could clear the infection
March 21, 2016
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center today revealed that infant rhesus macaques treated with antibodies within 24 hours of being exposed to SHIV, a chimeric simian virus that bears the HIV envelope protein, were completely cleared ...
