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Congratulations to 2019 ARCS Foundation Oregon scholars!

Biochemists find that the brains of people with congenital deafness may be rewiring themselves in ways that affect how those people learn.

Physicist Bo Sun had a breakthrough discovery that remove bottlenecks to making more effective metastatic cancer treatments a reality with tremendous social impact.

Biochemists Alvaro Estevez and Maria Franco discover an important breakthrough toward understanding why certain cells in the nervous system are prone to breaking down and dying.

Faculty and student researchers in biochemistry uncover protein modifications that may lead to potential new cancer therapies that spare healthy cells.

Biophysicists have opened up a possible avenue for new cancer therapies with reduced side effects.

Doctoral student Patrick Morar is the 2019-20 Christopher and Catherine Mathews Graduate Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Science students organize a very successful biomedical ethics conference.

A compound with potential as a treatment for ALS has gained further promise in a new study by biochemist Joe Beckman.

Biochemist Joe Beckman has found a new molecule fragmentation technology to allow scientists to conduct research in new ways and across many diverse fields.

Four College of Science students and alumni have received prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in 2019.

The hops plant produces a compound that thwarts cancer cells, and two key derivatives of the compound are even more effective.