OHSU celebrates the official opening of the Center for Health and Healing Building 2 and the Gary and Christine Rood Family Pavilion.

An essay by Mitchell Brinks, M.D., M.P.H., outlines OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s efforts to improve eye care in Myanmar.

Ajit Jetmalani, M.D. has been appointed to Governor Kate Brown’s Child Welfare Oversight Committee aimed at improving the states care of foster children.

Tom Scanlan, Ph.D., and Dennis Bourdette, M.D., are quoted in news coverage of collaborative research that stimulates repair of the protective sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord in mice.

Elizabeth Eckstrom, M.D., M.P.H., discusses common dietary challenges for aging individuals. She says, “a wide variety of factors can impact an older adult’s ability to eat healthfully, ranging from lack of appetite to chewing and swallowing troubles to having conditions such as depression and dementia.”

A profile of Beverly Emerson, Ph.D., and others who filed gender-discrimination lawsuits against the Salk Institute.

Mark Slifka, Ph.D., is quoted as saying “for the hard ones to vaccinate against—TB [tuberculosis], malaria, HIV—antibodies play some role, but you need T cells,” in a story about how long vaccines last.

In a Science News article regarding vaccine durability, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., says “For a lot of the things we have vaccines against, antibodies are probably the protective mechanism.”

A feature article in Portland Business Journal outlines OHSU’s exploratory process for a new hospital expansion. Lawrence Furnstahl says, “Because we’ve been developing more and more services over time, and because the population is growing in Oregon and aging and increasing demand, we continue to see very high occupancy of inpatient beds and the complexity of care continues to increase. What we’ve tried to do is bring on capacity in stages to match the demand and needs of Oregonians at the state’s academic health center.”

Aleksandra Sikora, Ph.D., receives a $10.7-million grant from the NIH to develop a gonorrhea vaccine.