Oregon Life Science E-History made daily...
May 2017
Oregon Life Science E-History made daily...
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May 3, 2008 - A major expansion of Oregon State University's College of Veterinary Medicine's large
animal clinical and diagnostic imaging facilities was opened. The project was made possible by a generous
gift from the Valley Foundation and the estate of Lois Bates Acheson.
The Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital opened in 1981 to provide education and training to veterinary
students and health care for large animals through the primary care Rural Veterinary Practice group in the Corvallis
and Benton County area. Today, the Hospital offers state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging services for all species of
animals, including companion, large and exotic animals.
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May 4, 2006 - A multidisciplinary OHSU/Dotter Interventional Institute team including John A. Kaufman, M.D.,
an interventional radiologist, and Timothy Liem, M.D. and Gregory Landry, M.D., vascular surgeons, permanently
implanted, for the first time in the Northwest, small wireless pressure sensors designed to permit lifelong remote
monitoring of stent grafts used to prevent the potentially lethal rupturing of abdominal aortic aneurysms.
The stent graft works by providing a new, reinforced channel for blood flow that takes pressure off the aneurysm.
The sensors, approved by the FDA in 2005 for use in the U.S., had not been utilized anywhere in the Northwest until
this surgery. More...
May 5, 1907 - The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) was founded when eleven laboratory scientists
and clinicians met at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. to discuss the rapidly emerging field of cancer research.
The group of 23 Charter Members and 10 Charter Associate Members included some of the most famous physicians of the era.
Today, the AACR has more than 37,000 members residing in 108 countries, and its membership includes 178 Fellows of
the AACR Academy; 42 are Nobel laureates. The AACR funds research directly, as well as in cooperation with numerous
cancer-focused organizations. More...
May 6, 2015 - OHSU and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland,
Washington, announced a memorandum of understanding whereby the institutions formed the OHSU-PNNL Northwest Co-Laboratory
for Integrated ‘Omics, sharing their research programs and leading-edge technology for biological mass spectrometry in
pursuit of disease markers for new therapies.
OHSU and PNNL hope to create a technologically state-of-the-art mass spectrometry facility on the OHSU campus
equipped with the most capable commercial instrumentation designed for targeted mass spectrometry and the latest
in PNNL technology.
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May 10, 2001 - The FDA approved Gleevec, the world’s first targeted cancer therapy. Brian J. Druker, M.D. of OHSU
and B. Lydon, Ph.D., formerly of Novartis developed Gleevec, the critical reagents that helped identify imatinib,
or Gleevec, as a drug that inhibits cancer cell growth, and were responsible for moving the drug into clinical trials;
and Charles Sawyers, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center determined how to overcome resistance to the drug.
The molecular targeted drug Gleevec works by turning off the signal generated by an abnormal cancer-causing
protein, thereby shutting down the growth of leukemia cells. Gleevec was later approved for nine more cancers.
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May 21, 2007 - OHSU annunced that Grover Bagby, M.D., after 15 years as the founding director of the OHSU Cancer
Institute, has retired and that Brian Druker, M.D., the world-renowned cancer specialist who helped develop the cancer
pill Gleevec will be the new director of the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute.
Druker has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Warren Alpert Prize from Harvard Medical School,
the Lasker-DeBakey Award for Clinical Medical Research, and the Japan Prize in Healthcare and Medical Technology.
He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. More...
May 25, 2004 - Researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and the Oregon National Primate
Research Center at OHSU announced receipt of a $3.5 million grant from the NIH to develop new methods for vaccinating
humans against human immunodeficiency viru, the virus that causes AIDS.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded the research. Additional research collaborators
for this project included Duke University and the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
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Science Quote
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician:
he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
Marie Curie, French chemist and physicist (1867-1934)
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