About Research at OHSU

Research Highlights

Oregon Health & Science University offers a rich landscape for biomedical research. A major hallmark is the array of multidisciplinary approaches researchers take to the most intractable problems in human health--including diseases of the central nervous system, weight regulation, cancer, rare genetic disorders, and infectious disease.

Researchers at OHSU's Stem Cell Center, in collaboration with the Oregon National Primate Research Center, pioneered the first successful cloned nonhuman primate embryonic stem cells.

The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute is one of a small number of institutions invited to form, in partnership with the state of Florida, a cutting-edge infectious disease research institute.

OHSU was one of the first recipients of a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH (2006). This award created the Oregon Clinical & Translational Science Institute.

Quick Facts about Research at OHSU

• In 2007, OHSU was awarded $307 million in outside funding for research & education.
• OHSU was second in 2007 in NIH funding of neuroscience research and had the most NIH funded projects in neuroscience of any academic institution in the country.
• OHSU cancer researchers were the first to develop a successful targeted treatment for cancer: Gleevec, which attacks only the cancer cells and leaves the healthy cells alone.
• OHSU is the home of a 12-T magnetic resonance imaging system.