Pacific NW Research Institute

Decoding the Genetics of Stress

Did you know up to 90% of all doctor’s office visits are now related to stress-related ailments and complaints? The Decoding Stress Study aims to change that

What is the Decoding Stress Study?

The Decoding Stress Study is a groundbreaking project led by two of PNRI’s internationally renowned geneticists, Dr. Lisa Stubbs and Dr. David Galas . It aims to answer some of the biggest questions about the role of people’s genes in determining how they respond to chronic stress.

Chronic stress is linked to chronic conditions such

Dr. Galas Discovery at Core of 5-Minute COVID-19 Test

A technology discovered 20 years ago by PNRI scientist David Galas has been used by Abbott Labs to develop its rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19

Bioinformatics Holds the Promise of Developing Personalized Treatment for Cancer Patients

In May 2016, Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) and Indivumed GmbH (Indivumed), based in Hamburg, Germany, entered a strategic collaboration led by PNRI’s David Galas, PhD. The collaboration is designed to harness the power of molecular and clinical cancer data for tailoring successful treatments for individual cancer patients.

Indivumed’s global Cancer Database and Biobank contains more than 4.5 million biological data

Information Theory: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Dataset? Not Us.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offered a grant for the Galas Lab to use the new approach to analyze large sets of childhood development data

ExRNA: Mom Said, “You Are What You Eat.” She Was More Right than She Knew

Some of our exRNA is human, but some of it is from corn, rice, and other foods we eat

Decoding the Genetics of Stress

What is the Decoding Stress Study?

Dr. Galas Discovery at Core of 5-Minute COVID-19 Test

Bioinformatics Holds the Promise of Developing Personalized Treatment for Cancer Patients

Information Theory: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Dataset? Not Us.

ExRNA: Mom Said, “You Are What You Eat.” She Was More Right than She Knew

“Your gift helps make today’s potential tomorrow’s healthier reality. Research is the key.”

“If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.”

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

“I believe in innovations and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”

Support our innovative genetic research. Become a donor today.