The Wall Street Journal has recognized Oklahoma City among 20 “Up & Comers” on its list of the most inventive towns in America, citing, in particular, the work of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The article, which appeared in the July 22-23 edition of the Journal, sought to identify “small-town patent hubs” by seeking to […]
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President Bush to nominate OMRF president to foundation board
President George W. Bush announced this week that he will nominate Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation President Stephen Prescott, M.D., to serve on a board within his administration. The President announced that he will nominate Prescott to the board of trustees for the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation. Established by […]
Retired Clinton teacher leaves $5 million trust to OMRF, two others
For retired Clinton Public Schools teacher Wilma McElmurry, frugality was a way of life. She preferred not to spend money on herself, going so far as to collect promotional items such as hats and T-shirts to avoid having to purchase those items. Yet there was one area where the rural Custer County resident spent freely: […]
Stephen Prescott, M.D., named new OMRF president
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has named Stephen Prescott, M.D., president, effective May 1, 2006. Prescott, 58, comes to OMRF from the University of Utah, where he is a professor of internal medicine and holds the H.A. & Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair. An internationally recognized leader in the studies of the basic mechanisms of […]
OMRF President Capra to retire
J. Donald Capra, M.D., who led the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation during a nine-year period of unprecedented growth, will retire as OMRF’s president, effective May 1, 2006. “When I came to OMRF in 1997, I still vividly recall that several members of our board took me aside and told me, each in their own way, […]
Four new scientists boost OMRF’s research programs
Four scientists from some of the nation’s leading research institutions have joined the faculty of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The new researchers bring additional strength to OMRF’s research in cancer, genetic disorders and immunology. Susannah Rankin, Ph.D., and Dean Dawson, Ph.D., come to OMRF from Boston, where Rankin studied cell division in the Systems […]
