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” […]
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OMRF Receives Hearst Grant
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation announced today that it has received a $200,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. The funds from the San Francisco-based foundation will fund five core biomedical research facilities at OMRF used to support cancer research. “This generous gift is very important to OMRF for two reasons,” said OMRF President […]
OMRF Researcher Takes the Helm of America’s Largest Coalition of Biological Scientists
In a news conference this morning at the National Press Club, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) welcomed Paul W. Kincade, Ph.D., as its 89th President. Kincade heads the Immunobiology and Cancer Research Program and holds the William H. and Rita Bell Chair of Biomedical Research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. […]
Istook, NIH Director Announce $30 Million for OK Biomedical Research
Congressman Ernest Istook (R-OK) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni today announced two major grants for Oklahoma medical research totaling almost $30 million. A $17.95-million grant was announced for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), plus a$12-million grant for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). These grants will involve researchers […]
OMRF Welcomes 49th Class of Fleming Scholars
This week, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation welcomes 14 of the state’s most gifted high school and college science students to its 49th class of Sir Alexander Fleming Scholars. The students, who hail from across the state, will spend the next eight weeks in OMRF’s labs, working under the direction of senior OMRF scientists. The […]
OMRF patents potential treatments for diabetes, obesity
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has patented a method of reducing insulin resistance that could lead to treatments for the most common form of diabetes. OMRF has also received a related patent for showing how a hormone causes fat to metabolize, triggering weight loss. The first patent, jointly issued to OMRF and to the Eleanor […]
