2019 Summer Intern applications open
We have opened our applications for the Occupational Health Sciences' 2019 Summer Student Research Awards. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2019. Occupational Health Sciences' Summer Student...
Category: Basic Research
Welcoming new faculty: Caren Weinhouse
We wanted to send a warm welcome and feature one of our new faculty members, Dr. Caren Weinhouse, Ph.D., M.P.H. She is an environmental toxicologist studying how environmental pollutants can modify...
Sleep podcast episode
Have you ever gone to work after a bad night of sleep? How productive were you at work that day? Did it make you eat any differently? Drink more coffee? How about more than one night of bad...
Our new podcast: What’s Work Got To Do With It?
At the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, we are excited to announce the launch of a new podcast, "What's Work Got To Do With it?". Geared toward...
New president and faculty: welcome Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Rao
Yesterday was a big day here at OHSU as we welcomed OHSU's next president, Dr. Danny Jacobs. All of us here at OccHealthSci thank Dr. Robertson for his leadership, and welcome Dr. Jacobs to OHSU....
Welcome 2018 Summer Research Interns!
We welcome our 2018 Institute interns: Claire Boenisch, Oregon State University, Ryan Olson Lab Lev El-Askari, Willamette University, Leslie Hammer Lab Adeline Fecker, University of...
OccHealthSci visits workers’ comp division
Drs. Steven Shea, Stephen Lloyd and Kent Anger met with the Workers' Compensation Division (WCD) management team on April 5, at WCD Director Lou Savage's invitation, to describe the Oregon Institute...
Four from Occupational Health Sciences receive TTBD licenses
Technology Transfer and Business Development (TTBD) at OHSU granted licenses for discoveries to four Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences faculty members in the 2018 ceremony at OHSU last...
From fruit flies to Alzheimer’s
My group is studying Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We all want to live a long and healthy life, but unfortunately, with aging comes the risk of developing diseases like AD. At 75 about 5% of us have AD...
Institute scientists develop technologies to reduce the severity of skin cancers
In a recent paper in Nature Scientific Reports, Drs. McCullough and Lloyd report findings on prevention of skin cancer with DNA repair enzymes. These enzymes, normally produced in yeast, were...