Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’

Here’s the final video in our five-week series of Getting to Know SciVal Experts. In this video, learn how to find potential collaborators for a funding opportunity by conducting a full text search in SciVal Experts. Learn more about SciVal Experts, or watch other videos in the series.

This week’s video shows you how to look up an OHSU researcher’s publication history in SciVal Experts. Learn more about SciVal Experts, or watch last week’s tutorial.

This week’s video shows you how to identify other experts at OHSU who focus on related topics by using the Similar Experts feature in SciVal Experts. Similar Experts lists both researchers you’ve worked with in the past and others who you haven’t worked with yet. Learn more about SciVal Experts, or watch last week’s tutorial.

Learn how researchers across a wide range of disciplines are coming together to help our aging population stay healthy and maintain independence. View the new Healthy Aging Alliance website.

Interested in collecting samples from one of the largest local health systems? This is an opportunity to collaborate with the NW  Biobank at Kaiser Permanente to enhance your research. The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR), in collaboration with OCTRI, is offering another opportunity for OHSU investigators to guide a specimen-collection effort. The NW Biobank at Kaiser Permanente is currently collaborating with OHSU investigators  to collect cases in these research areas:  prostate cancer, lung cancer, depression, risk biomarkers of … Read More

The Department of Defense (DoD) has released RFAs for its highly anticipated Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Programs. Deadlines vary—find the full program announcements below for more information.

Tai Chi has been shown to improve balance and decrease risk for falls in Parkinson’s patients, according to research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team of Oregon scientists. Elizabeth Eckstrom, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor and director of geriatrics at OHSU, was part of the collaboration, which was led by a scientist from the Oregon Research Institute. The study was one of the first large-scale clinical trials to test the … Read More

Check out this nifty webcam that lets you view live footage of construction on the OHSU/OUS Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB). When complete, CLSB will be home to lecture halls, classrooms, labs, specialty research centers, and more—bringing OHSU, Oregon State, and Portland State together under one roof. The building will also include a new state-of-the-art lab space for OHSU’s Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine. Learn more about the project or watch the live webcam.

On Monday, November 21, 2011, a panel of OHSU Native American faculty members will participate in a panel discussion on their roles in community, research, education and collaborative activities. The panel will take place from 12 to 1:15 p.m. in the OHSU auditorium. An OHSU/Tribal Exhibit Fair will run concurrently from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium foyer. Panelists will include: R. Dale Walker, MD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, and Public Health and … Read More

The NIH Clinical Center seeks collaborative applications from intramural and extramural investigators for its 2012 Bench-to-Bedside Awards. Up to $135,000 per year for two years is up for grabs. Extramural PIs with an existing NIH grant are invited to initiate proposals in one of two ways: Extramural investigators may seek an intramural partner at NIH who would function as the project leader and serve as the point of contact. To identify an intramural collaborator, extramural … Read More