The Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland has awarded $10,000 to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation to fund Parkinson’s disease research. Jim Keating, director of the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland, presented the $10,000 award this month to Kenneth Hensley, Ph.D., an associate research scientist in OMRF’s Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program. Parkinson’s disease […]
Diseases
An Alzheimer’s vaccine?
OMRF study shows that immunization could slow or prevent the disease
OMRF uncovers on-and-off switch for adult stem cells: Discovery holds “a great deal of therapeutic potential” for cancer treatment
Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have discovered a protein that acts as a gas pedal and brake for so-called “adult” stem cells. The findings, which appear in the current issue of the scientific journal Blood, could have important treatment implications for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. “This work has a great deal of […]
Scientists discover that protein may block cell death: Findings hold promise for treating heart disease, brain diseases and cancer
Findings hold promise for treating heart disease, brain diseases and cancer
Researchers identify protein that may predict lupus
Certain families produce higher levels of a protein that may prime the body’s immune system to attack itself, according to a new study from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The findings could lead to new methods of predicting who may be at risk to develop the […]
OMRF scientist blazes new path for predicting disease
Growing up, Judith James rarely passed up an episode of Star Trek. From her living room in Pond Creek, the future M.D./Ph.D. sat transfixed as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise boldly went where no man had gone before. For the future physician and medical researcher, the workings of the […]
