Research News and Events
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OHSU neuroscientists are featured in video celebrating tax-payer funded brain research
The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative, or The BRAIN Initiative®, is a partnership between Federal and non-Federal partners with a common goal of accelerating the development of innovative neurotechnologies. Over the past ten years, OHSU has received over $17 million dollars in grants from the BRAIN Initiative in order to support revolutionary research in understanding the brain. Learn more in this special video created to coincide with the OHSU Brain Institute’s celebration of Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a stalwart advocate for federal funding of neuroscience research.
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OHSU-developed vaccine shows promise for cancer prevention
Researchers discover vaccine originally created for HIV may also combat cancer.
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OHSU researcher focuses on workplace well-being
Leslie Hammer developed the Workplace Mental Health Training for Managers.
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The importance of our sense of smell in human health
A paper published May 15 in Science Advances from an interdisciplinary team of researchers provides a conceptual framework for showing how the olfactory pathway, or sense of smell, impacts human well-being.
Research News
- Supporting cancer needs at the community level
- French model shows better access to methadone in U.S. could save lives
- New study establishes best practices for supervised psilocybin
- Study finds people of color disproportionately dropped from Medicaid
- Crisis intervention program leverages social media to reduce suicide risk
Research Blog Posts
- OHSU partners with Jubilant Radiopharma to advance CRR manufacturing capability
- OHSU Funding Alerts: Week of June 27, 2024
- Three researchers receive Biomedical Innovation Program Drug Discovery awards
- Mary Heinricher, Ph.D., named senior associate dean for research
- OHSU researcher and colleague receive PMedIC Innovation award