The Hille Foundation of Tulsa has made a significant gift to support research on diseases of aging at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. OMRF will use this gift and matching dollars to fund an endowed research position, the Hille Foundation Endowed Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease Research. The holder of the chair will focus on researching […]
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Eastern Star Donates $25,000 to OMRF
On Sunday, October 17, the Order of the Eastern Star presented the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with checks totaling more than $25,000. 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 Star has been a […]
OMRF Secures Record $27 Million In NIH Funding in 2004
The National Institutes of Health awarded a record $27.7 million in research grants and contracts to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 2004. This total tops OMRF’s previous best of $25.6 million, set last year.“The NIH is the leading supporter of biomedical research in the world, and an NIH grant is the ultimate seal of […]
OMRF Unveils State’s First Small Animal MRI Facility
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation unveiled Oklahoma’s first small animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. With a 10,000-pound magnet that is 140,000 times stronger than the earth’s magnetic field, the facility – one of only about a dozen in the U.S. – will allow scientists to study the cells and […]
OMRF Receives Record Bioterrorism Grant
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has received a $13.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the toxin that causes anthrax. The grant will pay $2.76 million a year through 2009 and is the largest ever awarded to an Oklahoma institution to fund bioterrorism research.With this grant, nine scientists will explore natural […]
New company explores novel therapeutic uses for aspartame
HealthAide, Inc., a newly formed Oklahoma City drug development company, announced today that it has exclusively licensed six patents and two provisional patents from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Building on work first done at OMRF, HealthAide will explore possible therapeutic and health-related uses for the sweetener aspartame, widely known by the brand names “Nutrasweet” […]
