Scientists have produced severely overweight mice with dirty blonde coats and developed a treatment method designed to help them lose their excess weight, leading to new answers about human obesity and future treatments to arrest it. These genetically engineered mice, developed by Ute Hochgeschwender of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City and Miles […]
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Science Lectures at OMRF To Focus on Heart Disease, Lupus, and Germs
“From Bench to Bedside: Biomedicine at the New Millennium,” a series of free public lectures presented by scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, is scheduled to begin October 7 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. OMRF’s nationally and internationally recognized biomedical researchers will explain in easily understood terms the latest research being done […]
New Research VP Named at OMRF
Morris Reichlin, M.D., member and head of the Arthritis and Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), has been named vice president for research for the private, non-profit biomedical research facility effective July 1, announced J. Donald Capra, M.D., OMRF president. Reichlin, who is prominent in the medical and scientific communities for […]
Summer Research Scholarships Awarded
Twelve Oklahoma high school and college students and four high school science teachers have been named as 1999 summer scholars by the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. As Sir Alexander Fleming Scholars, the 12 students will spend eight weeks in June and July working in various laboratories throughout the Foundation. The 1999 Fleming Scholars, their hometowns, […]
OMRF President Co-Authors Book
J. Donald Capra, M.D., president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in Oklahoma City, is one of four immunologists who have written the medical textbook Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease, published by Current Biology Publications in London and Garland Publishing in New York. Co-authors include Charles A. Janeway, Jr., Yale University […]
Novel Protein Discovery Provides Vital Clue to Cancer
Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, whose previous research on the tumor-suppressing von Hippel-Lindau gene was hailed as a “coup for cancer research” by the journal Science, have now linked their discoveries to a general mechanism for controlling cell growth. Defects in the von Hippel-Lindau gene are associated with most cases of clear-cell renal […]