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 […]
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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 […]
Volunteers needed for OMRF Sjögren’s research studies
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is seeking participants for Sjögren’s syndrome research studies. Scientists are seeking healthy individuals as well as those who have been diagnosed with or have symptoms of Sjögren’s syndrome. Sjögren’s syndrome is an “autoimmune” disease in which the immune system attacks a person’s own moisture-producing glands, such as those that produce […]
Golf tournament supports OMRF grad students
The Presbyterian Health Foundation presented a check for $10,000 to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation to support graduate research scholarships at OMRF. The funds represent the proceeds of the second annual Presbyterian Health Foundation/Research Park golf tournament, which took place last month at the Twin Hills Golf and Country Club. “Raising scholarship funds is consistent […]
OMRF honors scientist, board members
At its semiannual board meeting Wednesday, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation honored scientists Patrick Wilson, Ph.D., and Lijun Xia, M.D., Ph.D. The foundation also honored three long-time board members. The board presented the Merrick Award for Outstanding Research to Xia and Wilson. Established in 1981 by Elizabeth Merrick Coe through the Merrick Foundation of Ardmore, […]
