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NIH BRAIN Initiative at Work at OHSU

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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Klaus Früh, Ph.D., left, Louis Picker, M.D., and Scott Hansen, Ph.D.

OHSU-developed vaccine shows promise for cancer prevention

Researchers discover vaccine originally created for HIV may also combat cancer.

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Leslie Hammer

OHSU researcher focuses on workplace well-being

Leslie Hammer developed the Workplace Mental Health Training for Managers.

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Hector Olvera Alvarez

The importance of our sense of smell in human health

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. 

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