A report released today concludes that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has an annual impact of $46 million on Oklahoma’s economy. The new study, authored by a pair of the state’s leading economists, also concludes that OMRF is responsible for an estimated 1,061 jobs in Oklahoma—543 directly employed by OMRF and 518 others created as […]
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OMRF receives $100,000 gift from Kerr-McGee to support education
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Kerr-McGee Corp. to establish the Kerr-McGee Biomedical Research Education Endowment at OMRF. The endowment will help fund a pair of educational programs — OMRF’s Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar Program and its Graduate Student Scholarship Program. “Our sons and daughters shouldn’t have to leave […]
Leading HIV researcher to visit OMRF
The doctor who co-discovered HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) will visit the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation on March 8 and deliver the keynote address at an OMRF dinner that evening. Robert Gallo, M.D., who made his watershed discovery in the early 1980s, will come to OMRF as part of the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund Endowed […]
ConocoPhillips donates to OMRF
The Ponca City office of ConocoPhillips has presented the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with a check for $10,000 to support medical research. ConocoPhillips presented the check to OMRF President J. Donald Capra, M.D., at a luncheon in Ponca City on February 10. “ConocoPhillips is pleased to be able to make this donation to OMRF because […]
Oklahoma among top 10 states in medical research grant growth
A newly released analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research awards shows that Oklahoma’s NIH grants and contracts grew by 97.74 percent from 2000 to 2004. This growth rate ranks Oklahoma 8th among all states. The analysis was conducted by the State Science and Technology Institute, an Ohio-based nonprofit. The analysis shows that Oklahoma’s […]
OMRF again tops $27 million in federal research awards
For the second straight year, the Oklahoma Medical Foundation topped $27 million in research grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health. In 2005, scientists at OMRF secured 48 individual research awards totaling $27.4 million. “For a biomedical scientist, there is no greater seal of approval than a grant from the National Institutes of […]
