Over the course of three decades, Cecil Brown mailed dozens of letters to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Tucked inside the envelope were donations – perhaps $10 for heart disease research or, on occasion, a $100 check to help scientists find treatments for cancer. While his family and close friends appreciated Brown’s generosity, they also […]
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Seventeen students selected as OMRF Fleming Scholars
Seventeen Oklahoma high school and college students have been selected as Sir Alexander Fleming Scholars and will spend the summer working with senior scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The 11 high-schoolers and six collegians were selected from nearly 100 applicants for the program, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The students, […]
Mabee Foundation awards $150,000 grant to OMRF
The J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $150,000 grant to support the renovation and addition of new laboratory space on the OMRF campus. The project includes the addition of a microscopy suite to be built on the fourth floor west wing of OMRF’s Chapman building. The […]
Retired Clinton teacher leaves $5 million trust to OMRF, two others
For retired Clinton Public Schools teacher Wilma McElmurry, frugality was a way of life. She preferred not to spend money on herself, going so far as to collect promotional items such as hats and T-shirts to avoid having to purchase those items. Yet there was one area where the rural Custer County resident spent freely: […]
Stephen Prescott, M.D., named new OMRF president
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has named Stephen Prescott, M.D., president, effective May 1, 2006. Prescott, 58, comes to OMRF from the University of Utah, where he is a professor of internal medicine and holds the H.A. & Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair. An internationally recognized leader in the studies of the basic mechanisms of […]
OMRF President Capra to retire
J. Donald Capra, M.D., who led the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation during a nine-year period of unprecedented growth, will retire as OMRF’s president, effective May 1, 2006. “When I came to OMRF in 1997, I still vividly recall that several members of our board took me aside and told me, each in their own way, […]
