The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation $2.66 million to establish the Oklahoma Rheumatic Disease Research Cores Center. The grant, which will be awarded over a five-year period, will fund studies aimed at developing a better understanding of health problems characterized by pain in the muscles and joints. The project […]
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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 […]
HHS Secretary Leavitt brings American Indian health agenda to Oklahoma
At a symposium hosted by the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt underscored the federal government’s commitment to improving health care and delivery to American Indians. “American Indians are not immune to the chronic diseases sweeping the nation,” Leavitt told Oklahoma […]
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 […]
Students wrap up summer of research
While their peers may have spent much of June and July sleeping late and lounging by the pool, for a dozen of Oklahoma’s most talented science students, the summer of 2007 meant donning lab coats and safety goggles in laboratories at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The 12 students, chosen from approximately 100 applicants statewide, […]
Science teachers sharpen skills in OMRF program
A classroom can be a lonely place. Not for students, for teachers. But for eight Oklahoma science teachers, this summer has been anything but solitary. These eight educators were selected to participate in the Foundation Scholar Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. So for the last month, they have bonded as colleagues while learning […]
