News from the Oregon Marketplace
Oregon Health and Science University received funding from the NIH to further Cardiac Arrest Studies
According to OHSU News, “Oregon Health & Science University is participating in a multi-center clinical trial to determine whether two drugs commonly used to stabilize the heart during cardiac arrest actually improve survival rates and neurological function among cardiac arrest victims.”
Image Courtesy of Chris Wagner Image of Dr. Mohamud Daya
Courtesy of Division of Emergency Medicine
According to Mohamud Daya, M.D., the principal investigator and associate professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, "During cardiac arrest, the heart stops functioning, and unless restarted within minutes, the patient typically dies. Treatments applied by paramedics and first responders at the scene are based on what's been successful in non-human models of resuscitation, hospital-based therapies and expert opinion."http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2012/06-04-ohsu-leads-nih-funded-st.cfm#
The study is a part of the National Institutes of Health-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), which is funded by:
- The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (the lead Federal Government sponsor of this program)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- The Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Defense Research and Development Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- American Heart Association
http://www.ohsu.edu/emergency/research/roc/funding.htm
This study is being conducted in Oregon, as well as various states within the USA and Canada. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01401647
New Research Building at OSU
Image Courtesy of Oregon State University College of Public Health & Human Sciences
Oregon State University has just opened a new facility called the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition, and Preventive Health.
- Opened June 6
- The Moore family donated $5 million to build the facility
- This was the second largest gift OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences has ever received.
- The Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families was established in 2007 through from $8 million donation
- The Campaign for OSU has raised more than $800 million toward its $1 billion goal.
New Research Developments at OSU
At OSU there has been a breakthrough in viewing molecules, this has become tremendously important for X-ray crystallographers.
According to Nick Houtman, OSU's director of research communications and editor of Terra, “As X-rays pass through atoms, they reflect distinctive patterns. But, like a photocopy the edges are not as great and that data is thrown out."
Dilemma: There are too many random errors in the middle of a lot of background noise.
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2012/may/discarded-data-may-hold-key-sharper-view-molecules
Image Courtesy of University of Miami
However two scientists, Oregon State University biophysicist Andy Karplus and his colleague Kay Diederichs at the University of Konstanz in Germany, have figured out that there is useful information in this thrown out data.http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2012/05/x-ray-vision
Image Courtesy of Oregon State University
This discovery has been published in both in Terra Magazine as well as Science journal.
Importance: This study will further biology, medical diagnostics, nanotechnology and other fields. This will allow for more studies to be conducted, therefore more funding for the university.
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- Eugene Front Line™ event: 9/11/2012 on the University of Oregon campus
- Corvallis Bioresearch Product Faire™ event: 9/12/2012 on the Oregon State University campus
- Portland Bioresearch Product Faire™ event: 9/13/2012 on the OHSU campus
