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Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | OMRF

OMRF is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institute dedicated to discoveries that make a difference.

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Autoimmune Disease

Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren’s syndrome and more than 80 other disorders known as autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system becomes unbalanced and turns on the body instead of protecting it. Many of these illnesses strike women at much higher rates than men. OMRF physicians and researchers are looking for the genetic basis of these and other conditions in hopes of identifying new ways to treat and even prevent them.

José Alberola-Ila, M.D., Ph.D.

Robert Axtell, Ph.D.

Umesh Deshmukh, Ph.D.

A. Darise Farris, Ph.D.

Patrick M. Gaffney, M.D.

Judith A. James, M.D., Ph.D.

Matlock Jeffries, M.D.

Susan Kovats, Ph.D.

Christopher J. Lessard, Ph.D.

Joan T. Merrill, M.D.

Courtney Gray Montgomery, Ph.D.

Swapan K. Nath, Ph.D.

Gabriel Pardo, M.D.

Robert H. “Hal” Scofield, M.D.

Ira N. Targoff, M.D.

Linda F. Thompson, Ph.D.

Cristina Arriens, M.D., MSCS

Harini Bagavant, Ph.D.

Joel Guthridge, Ph.D.

Melissa E. Munroe, M.D., Ph.D.

Narcis Popescu, Ph.D.

Kenneth Smith, Ph.D.

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OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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