Posts Tagged ‘School of Medicine’

The Tartar Trust Fellowships grant $2,000 for one year to students, postdocs, and faculty in the OHSU School of Medicine. Fellowships are offered annually by the OHSU Foundation and support research endeavors and research career development. Projects that are likely to enhance the applicant’s career development are of particular interest. Fellowship funds may be used to: Assist qualified graduate students in their research programs. Provide released time for a graduate teaching assistant for purposes of … Read More

Perhaps because of the way she can explain complex, biological mechanisms in a way that makes sense to the rest of us, Allison Fryer, PhD, professor of medicine and associate dean for graduate studies, has been chosen to kick off this year’s Marquam Hill Lecture Series, a series designed to share cutting edge research with the general public. Dr. Fryer’s talk, “The Hunt for Biological Mechanisms in Asthma,” will take place Thursday, October 20, 2011 … Read More

Next Thursday and Friday, May 12-13, 2011, is your once-a-year opportunity to check out student research from across OHSU’s schools and disciplines. The 28th Annual Student Research Forum will include oral and poster presentations from students in nursing, dentistry, medicine, and pharmacy—making it a rare opportunity for students, faculty, and staff (as well as members of the local community) to learn about the wide array of researching happening here at OHSU. In addition to the … Read More

The School of Medicine invites you to a lecture by Joe Gray, Ph.D., Gordon Moore professor and chair of Biomedical Engineering; director of the OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine; and associate director for translational research at the Knight Cancer Institute. The lecture, “Genomics and Beyond – a Rationale for Spatial Systems Biomedicine,” will take place Thursday, April 21 at 5 p.m. in the OHSU Auditorium. Dr. Gray, a physicist and an engineer, is one … Read More

Nominations are due Friday, March 25, for the School of Medicine (SOM) Faculty Senate Award for Research. The purpose of this award is to recognize a faculty member for his or her excellence based upon evidence of sustained research productivity spanning a period of at least five years. The awardee must have evidence of local, national or (preferably) international recognition of excellence in research. Tangible forms of evidence may include the nominee’s publication record, research … Read More

September 2010′s School of Medicine News features “Soluble repulsive guidance molecule c/hemojuvelin is a broad spectrum bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) antagonist and inhibits both BMP2- and BMP6-mediated signaling and gene expression” as its Paper of the Month. This month’s selection, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, is based on research by Mahta Nili, Doctoral Student, Ujwal Shinde, PhD, Associate Professor, and Peter Rotwein, MD, Professor, from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The … Read More

Starting this month, the School of Medicine will highlight a recently published  paper to call attention to exemplary research at OHSU. This month’s paper is titled Aldosterone mediates activation of the thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter through an SGK1 and WNK4 signaling pathway (Journal of Clinical Investigation). The authors are: David J. Rozansky – MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics Tonya Cornwall – Research Associate, Pediatrics Shaunessy Rogers – Research Assistant, Nephrology & Hypertension Yong-Feng Yang – Senior Research … Read More