Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and his cancer research team stand outside the OHSU Knight Cancer Research Building. Bertassoni will lead a newly formed Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub that will allow cancer researchers to dissect the complexities of cancers through lab-grown tissues. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

CEDAR Co-director Shelley Barton, Ph.D. Barton said Knight Cancer researchers are using lab-grown organoids and other biofabricated models to explore fundamental disease processes with more focus and flexibility than is possible with lab animals or cultures of cells growing in a flat plastic dish.(OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)