Area surrounding a tumor impacts how breast cancer cells grow
March 14, 2018
OHSU research team discovers a tumor’s ‘microenvironment’ plays a critical role in how a common type of breast cancer responds to treatment.
Getting to Health Equity: When race no longer determines health
March 02, 2018
Harvard sociologist David R. Williams presented research on "the house that racism built," the first presentation in a new public lecture series.
Science of love: It’s all in the brain, not the heart
February 14, 2018
As Valentine’s Day approaches, generations of poets and songwriters are unanimous in their verdict: Love is all about heart. OHSU neuroscientist Larry Sherman, Ph.D. says they’re all wrong.
OHSU, PNNL create joint research co-laboratory to advance precision medicine
February 14, 2018
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OHSU today announced a joint collaboration to improve patient care by focusing research on highly complex sets of biomedical data, and the tools to interpret them.
‘Getting to health equity’ lecture is call to action for health care community
January 17, 2018
David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H., to be the featured speaker at the upcoming inaugural Dr. DeNorval Unthank Endowed Lectureship in Health Equity.
Feb. 15: Public forum to rethink autism through neurodiversity
January 16, 2018
MEDIA ALERT: The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health kicks-off 2018 Public Health Portland Style series Jan. 18.
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Community Partnership Program reaches $2 million funding milestone
January 11, 2018
Grants support community-based cancer prevention, screening and survivorship programs in every Oregon county.
OHSU accomplishments: The year in review
December 28, 2017
A sampling of OHSU's accomplishments in 2017.
Arpana Naik, M.D.
December 05, 2017
Arpana Naik, M.D., breast surgical oncologist for the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and associate professor of surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine. (OHSU)
Exercise for women healing from cancer
December 05, 2017
Instructor Rachel Wood was a personal trainer with a strong interest in the effects of exercise on recovery when she filmed the "Exercise for Women Healing from Cancer" video, distributed by Knight Cancer Institute. Shortly after the DVD was made, Wood was accepted to medical school, where she can put the knowledge she gained about exercise as medicine into practice. (Screen shot from video)
