Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have garnered an unprecedented $12.1 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants in 1999, Foundation officials announced today. In a typical year, OMRF receives $7.7 to $8.0 million in competitive grants from NIH. This year, however, the figure shot up by more than 50 percent. While the […]
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OMRF Kicks Off $100 Million Fundraising Campaign
The largest and most ambitious capital and endowment fundraising campaign in the history of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation kicked off today at a luncheon at Gaillardia Country Club in Oklahoma City. The five-year “For the Future of Medical Research” campaign for $100 million will push the 54-year-old private, non-profit biomedical research institute into the […]
Students Pledge to Raise $1 Million For Cancer Research
One of the most successful student fundraising efforts in the U.S. has moved up a considerable notch with a pledge that will further the fight against cancer. Since 1975, students in the Putnam City School System have raised nearly $1.5 million for cancer research — a dollar, five dollars and ten dollars at a time […]
OMRF Receives $1 Million Construction Grant from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently made a grant of $1 million to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for renovation of the Foundation’s main building, built in 1949. This grant is one of only 17 such grants awarded a biomedical research institution for construction purposes this year. The grant, noted OMRF president J. […]
OMRF Receives $1 Million Construction Grant from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently made a grant of $1 million to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for renovation of the Foundation’s main building, built in 1949. This grant is one of only 17 such grants awarded a biomedical research institution for construction purposes this year. The grant, noted OMRF president J. […]
Obesity Breakthrough: Lessons from Fat Yellow Mice
Scientists have produced severely overweight mice with dirty blonde coats and developed a treatment method designed to help them lose their excess weight, leading to new answers about human obesity and future treatments to arrest it. These genetically engineered mice, developed by Ute Hochgeschwender of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City and Miles […]
