thanks to Pat Elliot for sharing this link. There is a great photo of Brian Druker ;o)
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How OHSU will use big money, brand new labs, and all-star researchers to launch bold new cancer treatments.
Published Nov 17, 2012, 10:37am
By Jennifer Abbasi
"......Four years ago, Phil Knight, the Portland-born founder of Nike, and his wife, Penny, gave OHSU $100 million for cancer research—at the time, the largest gift in the school’s 125-year history. (The Knights later topped it with $125 million for heart research.)
The gift launched OHSU and Druker on a campaign of recruiting coups, scooping up top-tier researchers from elsewhere for the newly renamed Knight Cancer Institute. “We can attract the best ‘athletes’ at the peak of their careers to work here,” Druker says. “This attracts more talent, including the young stars of tomorrow, to move here to learn from the best and make their own contributions.”
Druker’s first two major scores are Gray, a pioneer in cancer imaging and genetics, and Lisa Coussens, a biologist who studies the environments in which tumors grow. While OHSU doesn’t disclose exact details, each such recruitment costs about $20 million in salaries, relocation money, and promised budget for researchers who will work with Gray and Coussens. Each brings a handpicked team of other top scientists with them, essentially moving whole labs (and millions in research budgets) to Portland from former employers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, respectively.
“Cancer is complex,” Druker says. “It’s not going to be one person or even one individual lab that solves the problem.”
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http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/news-and-profiles/business/articles/oh...
