Science education doesn’t get much more “real world” than a day at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. That was the experience of 33 elementary, middle and high school students from Putnam City Schools during OMRF’s annual Junior Scientist Day. Outfitted with goggles and lab coats, the science-minded students spent time Friday and Monday working with […]
Diseases
OMRF provides glimpse of future for UCO students
It was crystallography, not a crystal ball, which gave some University of Central Oklahoma students a look into the future. A group of UCO chemistry students toured the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Friday and found their current studies might be a sign of careers to come. Senior members of the Chemistry Club got an up-close […]
OMRF scientist finds genetic link between X chromosome and lupus
Scientists have long known that the autoimmune disease lupus disproportionately strikes women. And though they have searched for a genetic link between the disease and the X chromosome—women carry two, while men carry only one—they’ve not found one. Until now. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Amr Sawalha, M.D., has discovered an association between a gene […]
It’s in the genes: OMRF leads international effort that unmasks potential genetic roots of lupus
An international consortium of scientists led by OMRF investigator John B. Harley, M.D., Ph.D., has identified multiple genes linked to lupus, a devastating autoimmune disease that affects as many as 2 million Americans and 15 million people worldwide. The group’s findings appear online in two related articles in the Feb. edition of the journal Nature […]
OMRF Alzheimer’s drug completes first stage of clinical testing
Scientists now one step closer to drug for Alzheimer’s disease
OMRF’s James receives national honor
The American College of Rheumatology has awarded Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation researcher Judith James, M.D., Ph.D., the 2007 Edmund L. Dubois Memorial Achievement Award. The prize is presented each year to an outstanding investigator in the field of lupus research. James was honored as a result of her groundbreaking work in predicting lupus, a disease […]
