John Saxon III, M.D., is an Oklahoma physician and OMRF Board member of more than two decades. He established the John H. Saxon Service Academy Summer Research Program to honor his father, a West Point graduate and career Air Force pilot who taught for five years at the U.S. Air Force Academy before passing away in 1996. Since the program’s inception in 2009, over 40 military students from West Point, the Naval Academy and Air Force Academy have been a part of the program.
OMRF partners with individual academies to select students to participate in this unique program that cadets with an opportunity to work side-by-side with OMRF’s senior scientists. Students work for three to four weeks OMRF laboratories on individual projects and are mentored by scientific staff. At the end of the program, the students give a formal seminar on their findings and write a scientific paper.
