$5 suggested donation at the door.
The Science of Measurement in Biology and Medicine: Measuring Better to Understand Better
Featuring
Joe W. Gray, PhD, chair of the OHSU department of biomedical
engineering; director of the OHSU Center for Spatial Systems
Biomedicine; and associate director for translational research at the
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Our understanding of diseases like
cancer has improved dramatically in recent years as technologies have
been developed to map their molecular compositions and structures.
These technologies combine aspects of physics, engineering, chemistry,
biology and computer science to “see” features ranging in size from
single genes and proteins to complex tissues and organs. These
measurements show how diseases differ from normal and between
individuals, and are being used to develop new therapeutic approaches
that are being used to “personalize medicine” in which treatments are
tailored to the individual.
In this talk, Dr. Gray will review
his personal experiences in developing measurement technologies that are
now routinely used in disease diagnosis. He will also talk about
efforts to develop technologies that will lead to “Google earth” like
views of cells and tissues that are intended to provide better
strategies to manage treatments of human diseases like cancer. He also
will talk about the challenges of dealing with the vast data sets that
emerge.
Joe Gray, Ph.D. was trained as a nuclear physicist at
Kansas State University but evolved into a biomedical scientist and
engineer as he began to apply techniques from physics to problems in
biology and medicine. He has described his work in over 400 scientific
papers and more that 80 issued US Patents. He has received major awards
and recognition the US Department of Energy, the American Society for
Human Genetics, the National Cancer Institute and the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He currently holds the
Gordon Moore endowed chair at the Oregon Health & Science University
and serves there as Chairman of the Department of Biomedical
Engineering, Director of the Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine and
Associate Director for Translational Research in the Knight Cancer
Institute.
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