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2017 Report of Funding and Awards
The OHSU Office of the Vice President for Research has published the 2017 Report of Funding and Awards.
Looking back at 2017
- Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., and team are first to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to correct a disease-causing mutation in nuclear DNA/human embryos that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Nature names OHSU among top 20 research institutions in the world
- OHSU earns two grants totaling $62 million from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, to help bridge basic science and clinical research
- Research led by Kim Burchiel, M.D., and team is first to indicate clinical outcomes for deep brain stimulation while patients are asleep are on par or better than surgery while awake.
- Knight Cancer Institute recruits internationally renowned cancer researcher Gordon Mills, M.D., from MD Anderson Cancer Center to lead the institute’s efforts in precision oncology.
- NIH selects the Knight Cancer Institute to co-lead the largest national database for pediatric cancer, rare disease research.
- Technology expert Mike Heller, Ph.D., joins Knight Cancer Institute’s center for cancer early detection.
- Knight Cancer Institute joins a prestigious national consortium and is selected to receive $9.2 million from the NIH to study triple-negative breast cancer
- Vinay Prasad, M.D., earns $2 million from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to investigate health care practices that 'don’t work.'
- The New England Journal of Medicine published a study led by Brian Druker, M.D., demonstrating long-term results of Gleevec® for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia
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Neuroscience Postbaccalaureate Initiative
The OHSU Neuroscience Postbaccalaureate Initiative is a competitive training opportunity aimed at providing sustained research experience and skills development for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds. Accepted scholars will receive mentored scholarly training as well as tailored support around academic and professional development.
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