Posts Tagged ‘child health’

Research for a Lifetime: A Scientific Colloquium in Honor of the NICHD’s 50th Anniversary OHSU’s Lynn Loriaux, M.D., Ph.D., interim chair of the department of medicine, heads to Washington, D.C. this week to participate alongside some of the nation’s most accomplished researchers at this year’s National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) Scientific Colloquium. The conference will be held at the NIH Clinical Center on the NIH Main Campus, Wednesday, December 5, 2012. … Read More

The Macy Easom Cancer Research Foundation has partnered with world-class cancer and stem cell physician-scientists to bring together some of the best minds in the field in hopes of stimulating hepatoblastoma and other pediatric cancer research. OHSU is proud to host the Macy Easom Memorial Lectureship, which will be held in the OHSU Hospital’s eighth-floor auditorium on Tuesday, June 5th at 4 p.m. Dr. Stefano Cairo, Ph.D., a human geneticist at XenTech in Paris, France has … Read More

Your child brushes, flosses, and rinses with fluoride—but is it enough to prevent all cavities? According to new research at OHSU’s School of Dentistry, multiple strains of the cavity-causing bacteria may remain in the mouths of children even after undergoing six months of full-mouth caries restorative therapy. For the study, plaque from seven children, ages 3 to 12, who visited the dentist with severe early childhood caries, was collected at three appointments: prior to oral … Read More

For the past thirteen years, the Friends of Doernbecher have funded a grant program that awards $100,000 annually to Doernbecher faculty or staff to pursue research or develop projects and programs at the hospital. In many cases, this kind of initial funding provides seed money to get projects underway and provides a platform and track record, which will assist in securing longer-term funding from the NIH or other sources. Congratulations to the following recipients of … Read More

Friends of Doernbecher, a volunteer organization that raises funds for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU, seeks proposals for pediatric-related research projects and programs. The grant program, which provides up to $100,000, is open to any employee of OHSU or Doernbecher proposing research related to children’s health. This includes, but is not limited to, OHSU and Doernbecher faculty, clinical and research staff, graduate students, medical students, fellows, and postdoctoral fellows. Grant applications are due February 3, … Read More

Monday, August 15 is your last chance to register for the 7th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), a conference to be hosted by OHSU,  September 18–21, 2011. This international conference will feature researchers from OHSU and around the world, all of whom concentrate on discoveries related to developmental programming. Participants can expect to receive updates on traditional areas in the field and also to receive information on newly emerging areas, … Read More

OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute is offering two internal funding mechanisms for young cancer researchers who are generating preliminary data for peer-reviewed national funding and career development proposals. Type types of funding are available. The deadline for both opportunities is August 29, 2011. Cancer Research Development Awards – Provides $10,000 in direct costs to support clinical, basic, or population-based research that is cancer focused. Interdisciplinary research, in which investigators from disparate scientific areas collaborate to bring … Read More

Join the Department of Pediatrics for a research seminar featuring Nancy Braverman, MS, MD, associate professor at McGill University-Montreal. Dr. Braverman will be giving a talk on “Rhizomelic Chondrodyspalsia Punctata: Study of Pathophysiology Using Mouse Models” on Tuesday, June 21, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital 11th floor Vey Auditorium. For more information about the seminar series, visit the Department of Pediatrics website.

An estimated one in three adults in the U.S. is obese, but its treatment may be more complex than you might think, according to OHSU’s Kevin Grove, PhD, who has been featured in the New York Times and on ABC’s Nightline for his research on obesity and diabetes in “couch-potato” primates. Since we blogged about Dr. Grove’s research back in February, OHSU’s communications team has created a fact sheet about obesity and OHSU’s research on … Read More

Bernard Séguin, DVM, DACVS, Associate Professor of Small Animal Surgery/Surgical Oncology at Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, will be visiting OHSU on Tuesday, May 3 to give a presentation on: “Why Treating Man’s Best Friend Benefits Everyone – The Osteosarcoma Story.” The seminar will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital 11th floor Vey Auditorium. Other presenters lined up for this spring include: June 14 – James Ford, … Read More