Hello Bio features 10 science conferences to attend in 2023, noting that Ana Quiñones, Ph.D., will be one of the plenary speakers at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July in Amsterdam.

The first cohort of a joint OHSU-St. Charles Health family medicine residency program based in Central Oregon will begin their medical training at OHSU in summer 2024 and arrive in Central Oregon for the remainder of their training in summer 2025. Applications for the program will be accepted in September.

Maria Fleseriu, M.D., is a new member of the Endocrine Society’s Board of Directors.

Rita Parsiani, D.Pharm., is interviewed by KGW about Eli Lilly’s decision to cap the cost of insulin for treatment of diabetes to $35 a month.

Becker’s Spine Review reports that OHSU is among 69 hospitals and health systems nationwide to receive advanced certification for hip and knee replacements from DNV Healthcare.

Biological Dynamics announces a collaboration with OHSU on an early-stage pancreatic cancer study. Rosie Sears, Ph.D., says “Finding tumors at an earlier stage will provide the opportunity for prompt neoadjuvant therapy followed by targeted interception with potentially curative minimally invasive surgical techniques to optimize survival and quality of life”

Stories explaining recent social media hype about the herbal supplement ashwagandha quote Amala Soumyanath, B.Pharm., Ph.D., who says: “While more confirmatory studies are needed, research in humans and preclinical models suggest that ashwagandha can improve sleep and reduce, stress, anxiety and depression.”

A team of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute researchers, led by Jeff Tyner, Ph.D., offers advice on best practices for data collection and analysis to the Portland Police Bureau regarding their stolen vehicle operations. Tyner says: “Police are collecting and using data to make their process more precise and more efficient. That’s exactly the same thing we do here in cancer research.”

In an interview with the OHA’s Oregon Health News, featuring Oregonians reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, George Keepers, M.D., provides tips and perspective about the impact on our mental health and social skills; he says, “I’m quite optimistic about our ability to recover from COVID-19; it just takes a while for people to get comfortable again.”

GenomeWeb profiles research led by Andrew Adey, Ph.D., which aims to improve their capability to perform combinatorial indexing-based single-cell assays for chromatin accessibility and methylation.