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 […]
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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” […]
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 […]
