At its board meeting yesterday, the Presbyterian Health Foundation approved a $500,000 grant to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The award will provide start-up funds for a new OMRF scientist, Dario Ramirez, Ph.D., who will join OMRF from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this winter. “We are extremely fortunate that the Presbyterian Health Foundation […]
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OMRF selected for international research network
A $6 million grant is helping researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation participate in an innovative transatlantic network linking scientists who study blood-clotting disorders. OMRF is one of only three U.S. institutions selected to participate in this collaboration, which also includes three European universities. The five-year grant is among a series of Transatlantic Networks […]
OMRF offers scholarships for science teachers
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is offering scholarships for Oklahoma science teachers to participate in OMRF’s 2008 Foundation Scholar Program. For two decades, OMRF’s Foundation Scholar Program has helped Oklahoma science teachers build their classroom curriculum through hands-on laboratory work and interaction with scientists and other educators. Scholarships provide a $2,000 stipend plus housing (if […]
The mice that roared
How do complex networks of genes control obesity, cancer and heart disease? The unique rodents of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation may hold the answer. Their small size and short gestation periods make mice ideal models for studying human disease. Although garden-variety rodents don’t make the cut for research, technological advances have made it possible […]
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 […]
Parkinson Foundation makes $10,000 grant to OMRF
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 […]
