About Us
HOP is currently funded by the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR). CEDAR is a research institute dedicated to identifying those at risk for cancer, detecting cancers early, and developing treatments that treat those early cancers. CEDAR was founded in 2017 and has earned a reputation as a world leader in early detection.
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center between Sacramento and Seattle—an honor earned only by the nation’s top cancer centers. It offers the latest treatments and technologies as well as hundreds of research studies and clinical trials.
HOP is also supported by a growing network of collaborators including:
- University of Oregon Center for Science Communication Research
- Providence Cancer Institute
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
- Oregon Health Authority (OHA)
Are you a researcher and interested in collaborating with HOP?
Meet the Healthy Oregon Project Team
The Healthy Oregon Project, or HOP, is supported by a team of geneticists, community outreach specialists, scientists, and genetic counselors at Oregon Health & Science University dedicated to understanding why some people get cancers and others do not, and how to identify cancer much earlier. The project is led by two Knight Cancer Institute investigators:
Jackie Shannon,
Ph.D., R.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Shannon is associate director of community outreach and engagement in the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. She directs the Institute’s Community Engaged Research Program and co-directs the Community Partnership Program. She is a professor in the OHSU School of Public Health and serves as associate director of OCTRI, the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute.
Jonathan Brody,
Ph.D.
Dr. Brody is the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Surgery and is the Assoc. Director of the Brenden-Colson Pancreatic Center for Patient Care. His lab focuses on aspects of pancreatic cancer, including developing ways to optimize targeted therapies used in clinics for pancreatic cancer. He is also a co-leader in a new research program that focuses on addressing disparities in pancreatic cancer in the Native American community in Oregon, including trying to set up a genetic registry for the Native American community. He was part of the initiative to democratize personalized medicine for pancreatic cancer, where the Know Your Tumor program sequenced individuals with pancreatic cancer in every state in the country. They showed that outcomes dramatically changed when patients’ tumors were sequenced and matched with personalized therapy.
Contact our study team at [email protected] with any questions.
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