J. Donald Capra, M.D., president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in Oklahoma City, is one of four immunologists who have written the medical textbook Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease, published by Current Biology Publications in London and Garland Publishing in New York. Co-authors include Charles A. Janeway, Jr., Yale University […]
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Novel Protein Discovery Provides Vital Clue to Cancer
Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, whose previous research on the tumor-suppressing von Hippel-Lindau gene was hailed as a “coup for cancer research” by the journal Science, have now linked their discoveries to a general mechanism for controlling cell growth. Defects in the von Hippel-Lindau gene are associated with most cases of clear-cell renal […]
Internationally Recognized Geneticist Joins OMRF
Brian Sauer, Ph.D., one of the world’s leaders in genetic engineering, has recently been appointed to head the newly-instituted Developmental Biology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, announced J. Donald Capra, M.D., president. The first new research program at OMRF in a decade, this program had been funded in part by a $3 […]
Worm Research Aids Gene Data Local Scientist IDs Roles
The recent completion of the genetic mapping of a common soil-dwelling worm is likely to put a companion research project in Oklahoma on the map for scientists around the world. The project could make the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City a high-tech worm farm. On December 11, an international research team lead by […]
For the Future of Oklahoma: $100 Million for Biomedical Research
Each year the federal government, through the National Institutes of Health, awards about $10 billion of research grants to the biomedical research efforts in colleges, universities and not-for-profit research foundations. Based on Oklahoma’s population, we should be receiving approximately $100 million in NIH grants each year. Currently, we receive only $31 million in funding from […]
National Conference on Sjogren’s Syndrome to be Held in Oklahoma City
Patients who suffer with this autoimmune disease, as well as physicians who treat it, will gather in Oklahoma City Saturday, October 31 for the Ninth Annual National Conference for Sjogren’s Syndrome (NSSA). Chairman of the symposium is Morris Reichlin, M.D., Head of the Arthritis and Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and […]
