OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

Cancer Today publishes a Q&A with science writer Jessica Hapner, who wrote a book about the scientific discoveries that transformed outcomes for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. She says: “It’s not my story. I just wrote about the discovery. If the book offers people strength, that’s because of Brian Druker and because of the patients and the drug developer. That’s very clear to me.”

Research by Jonathan E. Elliott, Ph.D., and Miranda M. Lim, M.D., Ph.D., found no sex-based differences in people with REM sleep behavior disorder.

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OHSU research helps explain how mitochondrial DNA — the distinct genetic code embedded in mitochondria, which serves as the powerplant of every cell in the body — is exclusively passed down by the mother.

Alan Teo, M.D., talks about a new diagnostic tool for extreme social isolation known as hikikomori. He says, “I’m very devoted to work on things like loneliness, which may be lower-grade (than hikikomori) but it deteriorates our health. … More social connection is good for our happiness but it’s also good for our health.”