Posts Tagged ‘ONPRC’

Watch Jay Wright, Ph.D., scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), discuss a new treatment that has the potential to prevent ovarian cancer while preserving fertility for women who are at a high risk for the disease. Currently, the only way to prevent ovarian cancer in high-risk patients is to remove the ovaries, leading to a handful of unwanted side effects, including infertility. View the YouTube video, or read Dr. Wright’s recent publication … Read More

Last Sunday, the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) made national headlines when Kevin Grove, PhD, was featured on the front page of The New York Times. Dr. Grove’s research focuses on obesity and diabetes in “couch-potato” primates. Because they so closely resemble humans, these primates serve as excellent test subjects for weight-loss treatments. Read the full article.

Richard L. Stouffer, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Reproductive Sciences at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the OHSU School of Medicine, has received the 2010 Distinguished Research Award from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Stouffer is is credited with discoveries in the regulation of the menstrual cycle and reproduction in women. “It’s a great honor to receive this prestigious award … Read More

June 2010’s School of Medicine News features “Evasion of CD8+ T cells is critical for superinfection by cytomegalovirus” as its paper of the month. This month’s selection, published in Science, was led by Klaus Früh, PhD and Louis Picker, MD,  both faculty members at the OHSU Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute and Oregon National Primate Research Center. In the paper, Drs. Früh and Picker, explain how a common herpes virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), can outsmart the … Read More

Last week, we mentioned that OHSU has been awarded three new Shared Instrumentation Grants (S10s) from the NIH National Center for Research Resources. In addition to a new laser capture microdissection system, ONPRC will recevie a $500,000 grant to upgrade its Siemens 3T (Trio) MRI system system with a Total imaging matrix (Tim) console and hardware components. The upgrade will provide the ONPRC with the most up-to-date equipment, enhancing speed and image quality for several … Read More

OHSU has recently been awarded three new Shared Instrumentation Grants (S10) from the NIH National Center for Research Resources. One of these new instruments, housed in the Imaging and Morphology Core at the West Campus ONPRC/VGTI building, is a state of the art laser-based tool that offers efficient and precise dissection of single and small groups of cells. Specifically, tool will enable isolation of pure cell populations or microscopic-size anatomical areas out of complex tissues. … Read More

On May 19, Dr. Picker, Associate Director of the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) will speak about non-human primate models at a New York Academy of Sciences symposium titled “HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and Alternate Strategies for Treatment and Prevention.” According to the Academy, this meeting, which takes place one day after National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, will bring together researchers to discuss possible solutions to the challenges of HIV vaccine development. In addition to being … Read More

You are invited to a public tour of the Oregon National Primate Research Center Friday, August 7th, from 2-4 p.m. ONPRC/OHSU employees are welcome to invite their friends/family (minimum age 10 years old) to visit the Center and learn about the history, mission, current research interests of their scientists, and their exemplary animal care program. Following a presentation in the Montagna Auditorium, the tour will visit the sheltered breeding colonies of rhesus macaques and the … Read More