Posts Tagged ‘conference’

If you miss Howard Fields, MD, PhD, give his Brain Awareness Lecture on “Pain and the Brain” at the Newmark Theater, be sure to catch him for free on Tuesday, February 22 as part of the inaugural OHSU Pain Awareness and Investigation Network event. The event, which will take place from 12:15 to 5 p.m. in the School of Nursing Founders Auditorium, will also include a presentation by Melanie Thernstrom (author of The Pain Chronicles) … Read More

Join more than 600 researchers, department administrators, faculty, and graduate students at the next NIH Regional Seminar, April 27 – 29, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The conference is described in a recent NIH Notice (NOT-OD-11-038): Have you been looking for a comprehensive program that provides valuable information about the NIH grants process, including such topics as peer review, grant writing for success, pre-award and post-award issues for administrators and investigators, compliance, how to interact electronically with … Read More

The 2011 Northwest Regional Cytometry Meeting will be held March 24-26 in OHSU’s Old Library. Joe Gray, PhD, Gordon Moore Professor of Biomedical Engineering, will give the dinner reception talk: “Spatial systems biology – the central role of cytometry in the interpretation of the genome.” The meeting’s roster also includes Gary Nolan, Norman Dovichi, Manfred Auer, Masanobu Yamamoto, Gregory Kaduchak, J. Paul Robinson, Ed Walker, Maria Jaimes, Ryan Brinkman, Ger van den Engh, Bob Zigon, … Read More

FACT:  Pain affects everybody—it is the number one reason that people seek medical attention. OHSU PAIN Day Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Noon to 5 p.m. OHSU School of Nursing This event will launch the OHSU Pain Awareness and Investigation Network, which brings together scientists and clinicians across the OHSU Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Dentistry with the goal of fostering collaborations and supporting research efforts related to pain. OHSU PAIN Day will feature national pain … Read More

Do you  know an outstanding graduate student supported by a National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, or U.S. Department of Energy grant? Nominate them for an opportunity to meet Physiology or Medical Nobel Laureates at this summer’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany (June 26 – July 1, 2011). Students nominated to participate must: Be U.S. citizens; Be currently enrolled as full-time graduate students; Be currently sponsored by or working on and supported by … Read More

In mid-November, Daniel Dorsa, PhD, Vice President for Research, and David Dilts, PhD, MBA, Director of Clinical Research at the Knight Cancer Institute, will be speaking at a conference on the management and use of core facilities at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. At the conference, Dr. Dilts will be participating in a discussion about business training and education for clinical core directors, and Dr. Dorsa will describe how OHSU has used Recovery Act … Read More

OHSU neuroscience faculty, researchers and students are invited to attend the Society for Psychophysiological Research’s 50th anniversary meeting in Portland from September 29 to October 3, 2010 at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel. Attendees will hear presentations about cutting-edge research being conducted on interactions between the brain and human behavior, and learn about the long-term impact these findings. For more information, visit the society’s web page.

OHSU researchers who are interested in aquatic models are invited to the 5th Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference at Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Oregon. At the conference, taking place September 20-22, 2010, investigators will have opportunities to exchange scientific information with other researchers and industrial leaders, identify new research tools, and learn about recent advances in using aquatic models in translational research. Sessions and workshops include: Environmental Health Science in the 21st … Read More