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OMRF wins $10 million grant to study lupus

August 13, 2009

OMRF has received a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the autoimmune disease lupus. The five-year award comes from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH. The grant will support research on the genetic origins of lupus, which affects up to an estimated 2 million Americans […]

Filed Under: Development News, Diseases, News Tagged With: Gaffney, Kathy, lupus, Nath, NIAID, NIH, patrick, scientist-news, sivils, Swapan

OMRF researchers link vitamin D deficiency with lupus

August 4, 2009

Vitamin D has long been renowned for its role in creating strong bones. But research from OMRF suggests that the vitamin could also play an early role in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. OMRF researcher Judith James, M.D., Ph.D., and Lauren Cole, a graduate student in James’s lab, have found that in people who are […]

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: Cole, James, Judith, lupus, scientist-news, sunlight, vitamin D

New lupus treatment shows promise

July 27, 2009

Researcher calls new drug “greatest thing in 50 years”

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: Benlysta, Courtney, FDA, Gaffney, James, Joan, Judith, Kathy, lupus, Merrill, Montgomery, Nath, patrick, scientist-news, sivils, Swapan

Oklahoma woman remembers OMRF with timeless gift

July 13, 2009

Every moment of every day, clocks were ticking in Frieda Fitzgerald’s home. Wall clocks, desk clocks, cuckoo clocks. They filled the walls and shelves of every room in her house. It was a collection Frieda and her late husband, H. Douglas, worked years to amass. When H. Douglas Fitzgerald’s days ran short—he died in 1989—Frieda, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: diabetes, Fitzgerald, kidney failure, muscular dystrophy

Obama health nominee has impacted state

July 10, 2009

Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., may not be from Oklahoma, but he’s made plenty of impact at OMRF. A world-renowned geneticist, Collins was nominated this week by President Barack Obama to run the National Institutes of Health and is a proponent of “big science,” said OMRF President Stephen Prescott, M.D. “Dr. Collins is smart, articulate and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Collins, human genome project, NIH, Obama

How I spent my summer vacation: Budding researchers forgo summer break for scientific discovery

July 7, 2009

For many students, summer marks a time for rest and relaxation. For sailboats and sunscreen, beachcombing and barbecues. But don’t tell that to a dozen of Oklahoma’s top high school and college science students. As Sir Alexander Fleming Scholars at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, they’ve opted to trade swimsuits for lab coats so they […]

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: education, Fleming, James, Judith, McEver, rodger, scholars, scientist-news, summer

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