A bill in the Oregon legislature would provide free tuition and fees through OHSU to aspiring Native American students in rural, tribal communities across the state.
OHSU dedicates the skybridge connecting CHH and soon-to-be-opened CHH2 to a former cancer patient who advocated to the city of Portland to ensure the new building was centered around the needs of patients.
Profiles of several OHSU physicians, and a patient who has experienced an exceptional response. Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., says: “I came and gave a presentation on how we wanted to change the way we treated cancer. The people here embraced that so thoroughly, that I literally had no choice but to come.”
A conference presentation on the topic of genetic testing to increase early detection of melanoma. Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., says, “This isn’t testing of the tumor, this is genetic testing of the individual to see if they are predisposed.”
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh collaborate to create Grady, the first nonhuman primate born from juvenile testicular tissue. “Grady represents an important step toward ensuring that children [at risk of medically induced infertility] maintain their opportunity to have a family later in life,” says Carrie Hanna, Ph.D.