Dr. James Korkola and Dr. Kimberly Beatty are honored to receive a research grant from the OHSU Women's Circle of Giving. This generous support will enable Jim and Kimberly to use a new technology to investigate drug resistance mechanisms in HER2+ breast cancers. The technology will allow them to tag and track the locations and interactions of breast cancer receptors in cancer cells. A press release for this award can be found here:
https://news.ohsu.edu/2017/08/16/women-can-die-if-doctors-treat-them-like-men
(From left to right) Circle of Giving Co-Chair Teri Oelrich, James Korkola, Ph.D., Kimberly Beatty, Ph.D., Circle of Giving Co-Chair Patti Warner, and Renee Edwards, M.D., M.B.A., OHSU Center for Women's Health co-director. (OHSU)