OAHHS Fall/Winter 2018

20 » A magazine for and about Oregon Community Hospitals. HOSPITAL SPOTLIGHTS OHSU  KNIGHT CANCER RESEARCH BUILDING OPENS NEW ERA IN CANCER RESEARCH In September, OHSU announced the official completion of the Knight Cancer Research Building, a facility dedicated to the mission of ending cancer as we know it. The 320,000-square-foot building’s unique design will help scientists from different disciplines to work together toward advances in detection and treatment of cancer. The Oregon State Legislature provided $160 million of the total $190 million in funding for the seven-floor facility, with the remaining $30 million coming from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. The opening celebration takes place just five years after Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, issued a $1 billion fundraising challenge to OHSU which was successfully completed in June 2015, after 22 months. “We give thanks to the people who made this building possible. We thank Phil and Penny Knight, who issued the challenge of a lifetime. We thank the state of Oregon for its investment in this new building, and we thank the more than 10,000 donors in Oregon— and across the world—who believe in our mission,” said Brian Druker, MD, director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. “We pledge to use this facility to end cancer as we know it, and we will be reminded of our pledge each day as we work within these walls.” With a capacity of 650 occupants, the facility will house most of the Institute’s researchers. The building will house CEDAR—Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center —the first large-scale early cancer detection program of its kind. CEDAR is led by nanotechnology expert Sadik Esener, PhD.