Staff Spotlight: Sam Greenspan

In our Staff Spotlight posts, we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas,...

Staff Spotlight: Ivanna De Anda

For our final “Staff Spotlight” of 2021, we interviewed Ivanna De Anda. Ivanna joined the Olson Lab at the Institute this Summer as a Research Assistant for the Tech4Rest and SHIFT...

Staff Spotlight: Aanu Ayeni

In our Staff Spotlight posts we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes look to learn more about their research areas, career path and goals, but most...

Institute and OR-FACE Staff Spotlight: Jackie Boyd

In recognition of Construction Safety Week, an annual industry-wide education and awareness week that started in 2014, we want to highlight Staff Spotlight featuring a team member from the Oregon...

Staff Spotlight: Sami Moellmer

In our Staff Spotlight posts, we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas,...

Staff Spotlight: Dr. Sean Rice

Each month, we feature an Institute Staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas, career path and...

Research Staff Spotlight: LaTroy Robinson

Each month, we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas, career path and...

Research Staff Spotlight: Omar Ordaz

The "Institute's Staff Spotlight" is new for 2021. Each month, we will feature an Institute Staff member and share with the community a behind the scenes through a question and answer session to...

Research Staff Spotlight: Nicole Chaudhary

Each month, we feature an Institute Staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas, career path and...

Oregon Occupational Public Health Program Staff Spotlight: Alan Martinez

On our Staff Spotlight today, we feature Alan Martinez, program coordinator for Oregon Health Authority's Occupational Public Health Program. Alan is a collaborator and partner for the Institute's...

Research Staff Spotlight: Elisa Rega

For this month's “Staff Spotlight”, we interviewed Elisa Rega, Project Specialist (she/her), in the Emily Huang, Ph.D. Safety Climate Lab. Each month we feature an Institute Staff member and...

Research Staff Spotlight: Shelby Watkins

For our May 2021 “Staff Spotlight”, we interviewed Shelby Watkins, M.P.H., C.P.H. (she/her), a research associate in the Nicole Bowles, Ph.D. Lab. Each month, we feature an Institute Staff...

Oregon OSHA and CROET win Spotlight Award

You've heard a lot from us in the past year about hair smoothing products and formaldehyde. Frankly, we're all a bit tired of it, and we didn't plan to weigh in again about it. But last week, the...

Melanoma event to spotlight latest research and survivor stories

By Matt Wastradowski Shon Ramey began his seven-year fight against skin cancer in 2007, when he was first diagnosed with melanoma. Growing up in Washington State, he never used sunscreen and...

Spotlight: Graphic Medicine

Explore our growing collection of graphic novels with our newest display! Graphic medicine, as it’s commonly referred to, employs comic-style art and storytelling to recount compelling narratives...

Smarter brain ‘glue’ — glia cells take the spotlight

Many neuroscientists will tell you that nerve cells in the brain (called neurons) are the most important part of the nervous system. They are, after all, the primary cells of the nervous system,...

Volunteer spotlight: Meet Gloria

The OHSU Doernbecher lobby is a busy place. It's where visitors and employees go to fuel up on coffee, where colleagues convene, where students study and, often, where families and friends meet to...

Volunteer spotlight: Meet Chemo Pal mentors Jennifer, Allie and Jen

Meet Jennifer Thornton, Allie Busby and Jen Peckham, three OHSU employees who volunteer as Chemo Pal mentors, a Children's Cancer Association program that matches adults with kids undergoing cancer...

TTBD Innovator Spotlight: Yali Jia, Ph.D.

Yali Jia, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology at OHSU’s School of Medicine, has been making great strides to create breakthrough optical imaging technologies that may transform the way...

TTBD Startup Spotlight: NeuraMedica LLC

Watertight closure of the dura mater - the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord - is a difficult and time-consuming procedure. It is typically performed using fine suture down narrow working...

TTBD Innovator Spotlight: Bill Rooney, Ph.D.

In the coming year, patent-pending imaging software developed by OHSU scientists will be used to validate, for the first time in humans, a new imaging approach to map brain metabolism at high...

TTBD industry spotlight: Welch Allyn engineering rounds

Updated on 9/15 to reflect the origins of the program. The Welch Allyn-OHSU engineering rounds is a new platform at OHSU that allows medical equipment design engineers the chance to engage with...

TTBD Industry Spotlight: Michael Cohen and Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Whether it’s finding an effective vaccine approach to protect against human pathogens, or developing a technology that allows physicians to detect blood vessel abnormalities in the eye,...

TTBD Innovator Spotlight: Xiangshu Xiao, PhD

Xiangshu Xiao, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology in OHSU’s School of Medicine, has been at the forefront in the field of cancer chemical biology. The goal of his research is...

TTBD innovator spotlight: Carmem Pfeifer, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Carmem Pfeifer, D.D.S., Ph.D., assistant professor of biomaterials and biomechanics for the OHSU School of Dentistry, became an inventor without intending to. “When you get removed from your...

Technology Transfer Innovation Spotlight: Luiz Bertassoni

Every year, approximately 4,000 new cases of bone or joint-related cancer are diagnosed in the United States. Treatment and recovery can be painful — often requiring surgical removal of the...

TTBD Innovator Spotlight: Perry Gliessman

Perry Gliessman has a long, innovative history at OHSU. For over 20 years, he developed technologies for medical research and data acquisition at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC)....

OHSU Startup Spotlight: Nzumbe, Inc.

Launched in 2013, Nzumbe, Inc., is an OHSU startup company providing research services to accelerate the development of breakthrough therapies in challenging diseases, such as cancer. Nzumbe focuses...

TTBD Startup Spotlight: Gobiquity Mobile Health, Inc.

Of the 25 million children between the ages of six months and six years old, more than 15 percent show risk factors for amblyopia, the leading cause of visual impairment in children. In addition,...

TTBD Startup Spotlight: ReelDx, Inc.

ReelDx, Inc. is an OHSU startup company developing secure, HIPAA-compliant medical video platforms for educational and clinical use. Launched in 2013, the company’s initial goal was to improve...