At its annual Grand Chapter meeting Sunday, the Order of the Eastern Star presented the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with donations totaling more than $20,000. The gifts, from the Oklahoma Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and Eastern Star Chapter 77, will fund research on neurological diseases and multiple sclerosis. “The Eastern […]
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OMRF secures $9 million grant
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $9.16 million grant to train junior scientists and build research infrastructure at OMRF. The five-year award will fund the work of five junior scientists and provide operating support for core facilities at the foundation. “This is yet another important step in the […]
OMRF scientists receive $8 million award to study flu vaccine
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, […]
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. […]
