Edgar Murray Burns chronicles the medical service as the United States entered World War II, beginning with preparations in Portland, moving on to set up facilities acros [...]

This text chronicles the early implementation of western medicine from settlers coming across the United States who made their home and built their practices in Oregon be [...]

Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and mortality among patients with hematologic malignancy and/or hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), yet their hospit [...]

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that are responsible for post-transcriptional gene silencing.These miRNAs are associated with the RISC (RNA-Induced Silencing [...]

This dissertation uses nonhuman primate models to define how emerging arboviruses disrupt placental function and threaten fetal health. Through comparative studies of Zik [...]

This dissertation characterizes B-cell mediated immune responses to RNA viruses of clinical importance. Specifically, I examine the responses to dengue virus (DENV), chik [...]

Daniel Labby, M.D., was a distinguished physician and educator who began his faculty tenure at the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS) in 1947, following his gradu [...]

LC8 is a key molecular hub protein involved in a wide array of cellular processes (e.g., apoptosis, viral interactions, signal transduction). LC8 interacts with over 100 [...]

Malaria: how it conquered civilizations and marched over all who interfered with its destruction, only to be in its turn conquered by a handful of scientists and finally [...]

Malaria infection during pregnancy remains a major public health concern in the WHO African Region, with an estimated 13 million pregnancies affected by malaria across 33 [...]