About Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Our Vision
Our Mission
- Conduct innovative, collaborative biomedical research that enables the prevention and cure of infectious diseases.
- Provide world class training for the next generation of scientific leaders
- Build global partnerships to advance scientific discovery.
- Promote public awareness of infectious disease research.
The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, established in 2001, is located on OHSU's West Campus, adjacent to the Oregon National Primate Research Center. We are a free-standing facility that includes access to biosafety level 3 laboratories, state of the art core technologies such as spatial profiling and transcriptomics, single cell transcriptomics, and flow cytometry.
VGTI has successfully assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists to respond to serious viral disease threats including HIV/AIDS, Herpes family viruses, tuberculosis, malaria, emerging viral diseases, and infectious diseases of the elderly.
Our programs are intended to span the continuum between basic and clinical science, in which discoveries are rapidly advanced from the level of molecular and cellular biology through animal models moving ultimately into clinical testing.