U.S. Rep. Norma Torres secures $100,000 in federal funding for WesternU’s Health Career Ladder programs

U.S. Rep. Norma Torres presented a $100,000 check to Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) to benefit WesternU’s Health Career Ladder programs, which provide support, linkage and mentorship to students interested in pursuing health professions.

WesternU welcomed Torres and her team to the Harriet K. and Philip Pumerantz Library on the University’s Pomona, California campus March 15, 2023.

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COMP-Northwest Professor Glen Kisby, PhD, and his OHSU colleague Dr. Jacob Raber were interviewed on "London Live with Mike Stubbs" on radio station 980 CFPL about the dangers of second-hand cigarette smoke.

980 CFPL is a Global News radio station in London, Ontario, Canada. The article Secondhand Smoke World Map - HouseFresh estimates the number of cigarettes a person indirectly smokes while living in various cities due to poor air quality. London is sixth on Canada's list, with 110 cigarettes per year. The producer of the show contacted Drs. Kisby and Raber because she saw their research on second-hand smoke last year. You can find a recording of the interview on the show page: Megaphone.

CHS-Northwest Assistant Professor Zipporah Brown, OTD, MS, OTR/L, CNS, DipACLM, collaborated with neurodiverse occupational therapy colleagues across the nation on an article published in Neuroscience Research Notes.

Wong, B., Boheler, G., Hernandez, S. S., McGinley, K., Nguyen, A. T., Reyes, R. L., & Brown, Z. (2023). The importance of neurodivergent mentorship for the development of professional identity. Neuroscience Research Notes, 6(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.31117/neuroscirn.v6i1.167  

A team led by College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Dr. Yiling Hong (left) and College of Dental Medicine Professor Dr. Q. Quinn Li (below, right) recently published a paper in iScience titled “Microglia-containing cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurological diseases." The authors include two former and current MSBS program students Lawrence Chang and Jimmy Lin, research associates Chen Xie, Mariann Chang, Jose S. Aguilar and visiting scholars Xu Dong and Juncheng Lin.

The paper reports a new approach for generating microglia-containing cerebral organoids (or mini-brain) derived from human pluripotent stem cells.