Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Dr. Brian Druker, at a building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

An OHSU research team reveals the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays a critical role in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. Some of the authors on the paper: (left to right) Tiera Liby, M.Sc.; Zuzana Tatarova, Ph.D.; Elmar Bucher, B.Sc.; Jim Korkola, Ph.D., and Moqing Liu, Ph.D. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

OHSU researcher Jim Korkola, Ph.D., (left) and colleagues discovered the role the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

OHSU researchers Jim Korkola, Ph.D., (left) and Laura Heiser, Ph.D., and colleagues discovered the role the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

An OHSU research team reveals the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays a critical role in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. Some of the authors on the paper: (left to right) Tiera Liby, M.Sc.; Zuzana Tatarova, Ph.D.; Elmar Bucher, B.Sc.; Jim Korkola, Ph.D., and Moqing Liu, Ph.D. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

OHSU researchers Jim Korkola, Ph.D., (left) and Laura Heiser, Ph.D., and colleagues discovered the role the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

OHSU researchers Jim Korkola, Ph.D., (left) and Laura Heiser, Ph.D., and colleagues discovered the role the 'microenvironment' surrounding a tumor plays in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)