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Public Events

  • DSC_0073Brain Awareness Lecture Series

    The Brain on Fire: Can inflammation cause diseases that destroy the brain?

    Story Landis, Ph.D.
    Director, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda

    Inflammation is part of the body’s natural immune response to tissue damage. However, chronic inflammation is associated with many diseases. Why does the brain “turn on itself?” What is neuroinflammation? In the brain, it’s thought to play a role in aging and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. 

    By linking so many illnesses to inflammation, researchers are now rethinking their assumptions about what makes us sick and looking for ways to treat inflammation—and perhaps avoid these outcomes. Much of the scientific work that is discovering the causes and potential treatments for such neuroinflammatory diseases is being done by The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

    Monday, June 25, 7 p.m. at the Newmark Theater, 1111 S.W. Broadway, Portland
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  • Marquam Hill Lectures

    Since 1981, the OHSU Marquam Hill Lecture Series has brought together leading members of the OHSU faculty with the public to feature innovative and cutting edge biomedical research and clinical advances that will form the basis of tomorrow's cures and treatments. The Marquam Hill Lecture Series is one of the most popular and long-standing lecture series about science by scientists in Oregon.

    If you were unable to attend any lectures from 2011-2012, they are all available to stream on the Marquam Hill Lectures homepage.