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Conrad Lab receives KCI Pilot Award

We are excited to receive a Knight Cancer Institute Quantitative Oncology Program Pilot Award, funded by the NCI P30 Cancer Center Support Grant, for our project, Germline and Microenvironmental Determinants of Testicular Cancer Progression. Our first cancer-focused grant, this is an exciting opportunity to bring our expertise in male infertility and testis biology to understanding […]

MCC grant gets renewed by the NIH

Don is the lead investigator on this grant titled Coordinating center for collaborative marmoset research. The grant was originally awarded in 2020 and has now been renewed for another five years. Congratulations! PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has emerged as a critically important and tractable non-human primate (NHP) model for neuroscience research accommodating […]

NCTRI grant gets renewed by the NIH

Don is the lead investigator on Project I of the National Center for Translational Research in Reproduction & Infertility (NCTRI) grant entitled Genetics of Infertility: Accelerating the pace of discovery. The grant was originally awarded in 2019 and has now been renewed for another 5 years. Congratulations! Overall Abstract: Overall Azoospermia impacts 1% of men […]

Caitlin wins graduate student service award

The Associate Dean’s Award for Exemplary Contributions to the Graduate Community is awarded by leadership to a person for outstanding service to the graduate community. Caitlin is the 2024 recipient of this award for her active involvement and leadership in the Graduate Student Organization (GSO). She has lead the GSO through an extraordinary but painful […]

GEMINI grant gets renewed by the NIH

The first grant entitled Genomics of spermatogenic impairment was first awarded in 2014 and it has now been renewed for another 5 years. Don is the lead investigator on this grant along with Ki Aston from the University of Utah. Congratulations! PROJECT SUMMARY: This is a renewal application to the NICHD-funded Genetics of Male Infertility […]

NIH chooses OHSU for multispecies NHP dGTEx Research Center

Don is the project leader on this $3M grant which is a collaboration with MIT, the Broad Institute and Yale University. The center will provide a vital resource to the NIH dGTEx program by generating a two-species NHP resource with numerous benefits, including access to prenatal developmental stages and a basis for evolutionary analysis of […]

Eisa receives LRP grant from the NIH

The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) were designed to repay educational debt of highly qualified researchers in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research. Eisa’s project will use single-cell technologies in human and animal models to investigate testicular pathologies, including infertility, from the context of the immune system. Congratulations Eisa on this […]

NIH selects OHSU to coordinate national neuroscience research involving marmosets

Oregon Health & Science University has been selected along with two other institutions to coordinate neuroscience research across the country involving marmosets, a nonhuman primate that’s ideally suited as a model for human neurological disorders and new treatments. Congratulations to Don who is the leading PI on this grant. Read the news article.

Ana is selected for the trainee merit award competition at SSR2020

This is Ana’s second time being selected for this prestigious competition put on by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR). She will be presenting her work on the spatial dynamics of protein translation in Sertoli cells on July 9th at this year’s virtual meeting. Registration for the meeting is free (https://community.ssr.org/news-events/ssrvirtual2020) so be […]