The Academic Difference

Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSU
Brian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

Phil and Penny Knight made a record-setting $2 billion gift to OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.Phil and Penny Knight with Brian Druker, right.

August 14, 2025

By Paul Goldberg and Sara Willa Ernst

Podcast

In The Headlines: Late poet Andrea Werblin Reid’s husband talks about publishing her final collection about dying from ovarian cancer

In the last three years of her life, Andrea Werblin Reid wrote 150 poems on living with ovarian cancer and end of life. Werblin Reid died of ovarian cancer in 2022. Her third collection of poetry, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published Sept. 9.

August 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five states
Honoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Mary Beckerle, a whitewater kayaker, has advice for all the folks in the cancer field: never catastrophize, never panic.

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and loss
Her collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

I always liked poetry, but I was never a poet. I had to marry into that.

Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust

I write a weekly blog for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community. Here I share an updated version of a blog post I wrote in September 2024, now supplemented by some poems I have written over the years that inspired paintings by my wife Harriet Weiner, who is a much better artist than I am a poet or writer.

When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?
Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025

Earlier this year, amid efforts by the Trump administration to reduce the federal workforce, Lakshmi Grama decided to take early retirement from NCI.

August 08, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

By Sara Willa Ernst

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Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSUBrian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

In The Headlines: Late poet Andrea Werblin Reid’s husband talks about publishing her final collection about dying from ovarian cancer

The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five statesHonoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and lossHer collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust

When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025

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Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSU
Brian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five states
Honoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and loss
Her collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?
Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025