When Chip Morgan met the first class of Polish biology students to come to OMRF for a year-long training program in 2013, he couldn’t help but notice something. “They were all women,” says the foundation’s long-time executive vice president and chief operating officer. The next year, the story was the same. Ditto in 2015. “I […]
Solving the mysteries of aging, one question at a time Dr. Holly Van Remmen asks lots of head-scratchers. Like why do some diseases only happen when we get older? And what can we do to slow the aging process? As the head of OMRF’s Aging and Metabolism Research Program, she’s well served by her […]
Dear Dr. C, I’ve noticed an increase in the number of stories on shingles lately. I’m glad to see it, because I’ve had shingles, and it’s a painful, miserable condition. My doctor had me take the vaccine, and now I tell everyone to take it so they can avoid what I’ve been through. But when […]
“It’s so important to help young people along when they’re just starting out … They need to know that they’re important in the world, and as Fleming Scholars at OMRF, they’ve started on the right journey, whether or not they pursue a career in science. My father only made it through eighth grade, and he […]
It may sound like the set-up to an old joke. But for Judith James, the question of how to extract venom from a fanged spider roughly the size of a tea saucer was no laughing matter. In zoology class at Oklahoma Baptist University, each student received an animal to study and care for throughout the […]
The earth, Don Gibson realized, was shaking. He had traveled to Florida to watch the space shuttle Discovery take off. The shuttle stood 10 stories tall, roughly the size of George Washington’s head at Mount Rushmore stacked atop Thomas Jefferson’s. Still, as it stood on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida […]
After medical school, Fleming Scholar Rivka Galchen took the road less traveled In its 60 years, OMRF’s Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar program has launched the careers of lots of physicians. But as far as we know, Rivka Galchen is the only one who’s also gone on to a career as an acclaimed novelist, short […]
A tractor accident severely damaged John Enns’ spine. We first met him after his injuries had healed and he was helping to establish the Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research at OMRF. When we caught up with him again this past fall, we found a man who refuses to let his injuries slow him down.
How one OMRF scientist’s refusal to give up on a failed stroke drug has yielded new hope for treating brain cancer and hearing loss
At each race he runs, Dan Brenden ends with a flare: He scoops up his girlfriend, Huguette White, and carries her across the finish line.
When a life-threatening infection took this basketball star’s arms and legs, she had every reason to quit on life. Instead, she did the opposite.
There’s no one who’s appeared more often in the pages of Findings than Dr. Jordan Tang. So how could our 25th anniversary issue be complete without a visit from Dr. Tang?
