The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation $8.132 million to study the influenza vaccine. The five-year project will examine why the vaccine does not protect certain individuals with compromised immune systems.”Influenza research is one of the most competitive and difficult arenas in which to secure funding,” said J. Donald Capra, […]
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OMRF’s Morgan tapped to lead national research association
At its 44th annual meeting in the nation’s capital last week, the Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI) named Mike D. “Chip” Morgan as its president-elect. Morgan is the vice president of business operations at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. AIRI is a nationwide association of 89 independent, not-for-profit research institutes, including two Oklahoma institutions: […]
Small business grant will fund work of OMRF scientist
Encore Pharmaceuticals Inc., a California-based biotechnology company, has received a $100,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institute on Aging. The grant will support collaborative research and development in the field of neuroinflammation between Encore and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Kenneth Hensley, Ph.D. The award will fund focused research […]
Couple leaves $700,000 for Alzheimer’s research at OMRF
Ten dollars here. Fifty dollars there. Since the mid-1980s, Byron and Kathy Strawn had supported the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Their gifts came regularly, and over the years they added up to $330. Still, those modest donations offered little clue as to the generosity the Norman couple would show to OMRF upon their deaths. Mrs. […]
A swashbuckling dream comes true at OMRF for Altus teen
It was just supposed to be a routine doctor’s appointment. But Kalyn Huey was suspicious. “I knew something was up because my mom kept telling me to dress up,” said Huey, 18, of Altus. Tuesday morning, in the middle of her regular appointment with Joan Merrill, M.D., of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Huey’s suspicions […]
$750,000 grant to biopharmaceutical company will fund work of OMRF scientists
Encore Pharmaceuticals Inc., a California-based biotechnology company, has received a $750,000 Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institute on Aging. The grant award will support continued collaborative research and development in the field of neuroinflammation between EncorePharma researchers and Drs. Kenneth Hensley and Robert Floyd, scientists at the Oklahoma Medical […]
