American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at OHSU
ARRA funds will spur discovery
OHSU researchers are using their ARRA funds to study. . .
- Returning limb movement for stroke victims who have suffered paralysis.
- New tools that accelerate the time it takes a physician to diagnose of leukemia
- Improving health and wellness conditions for children and adults undergoing chemotherapy, a treatment that while often successful, causes severe sickness and exhaustion.
- Creating a database of gene information to help researchers better understand the genetic influence of alcoholism
- Developing new ways to study and treat brain tumors
- Combating disease epidemics
- Improving alcohol treatment for Native Americans
- See other studies here.
ARRA Job Creation at OHSU
ARRA funds will create jobs at OHSU in the short term and in the long term--jobs in research and construction, as well as training people for careers in biomedical research, health information technology, and other fields. The early results are now in.
Selected ARRA Awards at OHSU
Challenge Grant Awards
- IGNITE Investigation to Guide New Insights for Translational Effectiveness - Diane Elliot, MD
- Development of an Instrumented System to Measure Mobility in Parkinson's Disease - Fay Horak, PhD
- Cognitive Interventions Delivered to Elders in the Home via Coaching Technology - Holly Jimison, PhD
- Microfibril Fragments: Biomarkers of Aortic Disease - Lynn Sakai, PhD
- MicroRNA networks in synaptic plasticity - Richard Goodman, MD, PhD
- Molecular Imaging of Ischemic Memory with Ultrasound - Transition to Humans, Jonathan Lindner, MD
- Pre-clinical Testing of a Novel immunotherapy [recombinant T cell receptor ligand] - Jennifer Loftis, PhD
- Reagents for Detection and Isolation of Pulmonary Progenitor Cell Populations - Philip Streeter, PhD
- Accelerating target identification and validation in leukemia: Integrating siRNA - Brian Druker, MD
- GWAS in MrOS and SOF - Eric Orwoll, MD
