OMRF researchers seeking clues to a variety of cancers Cancer has many faces and can present itself at almost any location in the body. Scientists at OMRF are studying a wide variety of cancers in hopes of finding ways to treat or prevent them. Starting at the top Dr. Robert Floyd’s most recent work centers […]
Jim Chapman’s generosity helped build OMRF.
An Oklahoman suffering from a life-threatening disease.
At age 67, Bob Floyd, Ph.D., isn’t slowing down. Some would be content to leave work behind and pursue a pastime—like singing, which Floyd does with the All Souls Episcopal Church choir. It’s a hobby he cherishes, though it does require devotion and focus. But then again, when you’re the head of the Experimental Therapeutics […]
Technically, Greg Watkins was born on August 10, 1949. But if you ask the McAlester dentist his birthday, he might give you another answer. “I tell people that April 20 is my new birthday of a new life,” he says. That’s the day in 2007 that doctors began treating his PNH with Soliris—a drug born […]
We’ve known each other for years, but Alzheimer’s disease brought us closer together. Each of us lost our husband to Alzheimer’s—one in 2002 and one in 2003. Both of them were wonderful, thoughtful family men. Good daddies and grandpas. Thank God they didn’t know everything that was happening to them. That’s the only forgiving grace […]
It turns out I have a lot more in common with a banana than I first thought. No, I don’t have yellow skin. I don’t bruise easily. And nobody waits until I am over-ripe to bake me into delicious bread. But under my skin, inside it even, I share one very important thing with bananas: […]
By Greg Elwell Born on the outskirts of New York City in 1885, Tom Little was the third of four children in an Irish family that was long on discipline and short on affection. The family wasn’t rich, but as a mechanic, his father brought in a stable income and no one went hungry. Tom […]
When I pick a movie, it’s always a mystery, because I love having something to solve. It’s no wonder Sjögren’s syndrome fascinates me. I imagined I’d be a ballerina or a piano teacher. But in a college immunology class, I found a real-life mystery to tackle when I learned how much can go wrong in […]
