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Oregon Health and Sciences University was founded in 1887 and is located in Portland Oregon. OHSU is the premier tertiary care medical facility, academic research center and institution for higher learning and health sciences in the Northwest serving the region between San Francisco, California and Seattle, Washington. VGTI - Vaccine & Gene therapy... Institute - The VGTI was established as an OHSU institution March 2001, based on the recognition that progress in virology, molecular biology, immunology, animal models, pathology and clinical infectious diseases requires a high level of expertise and experience that is rarely found in a single investigator. The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University has assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists to respond to serious viral disease threats, including AIDS, chronic viral infection-associated diseases, newly emerging viral diseases and infectious diseases of the elderly. Our programs are intended to span the continuum between basic and clinical science, in which discoveries are rapidly advanced from the level of molecular and cellular biology through animal models and ultimately into clinical testing. The development of this unique program in immunology and virology provides an important training opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at OHSU. The VGTI strives for excellence by assembling a multidisciplinary team dedicated to developing research and teaching programs, maintaining expertise in and scientifically utilize NHP models of immunity and infection to respond to the increasingly serious infectious disease threats facing the people of Oregon, and beyond, including AIDS, chronic viral infection-associated diseases, newly emerging viral diseases, and infectious diseases of the elderly. The VGTI is a free 60,000 sq. ft. standing facility: 4 biosafety level 3 (BSL3) and 2 animal biosafety level 3 (ABSL3) laboratories, several core services, including the gene microarray shared resource, a clinical vaccine ...Read More