OMRF to host international research conference

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded OMRF scientist Xiao-Hong Sun, Ph.D., a five-year, $2.76 million grant to investigate a recently discovered immune cell involved in asthma. The role of the new cell, called an innate lymphoid cell, is to protect the body from parasitic infection. However, when too much of this […]

In 1946, DNA was just a collection of letters. Genes were nicknames for those with the given name Eugene. And the first biotechnology company wouldn’t be born for another three decades. But in Oklahoma, a group of physicians and business leaders saw the potential that biomedical research held. This Sunday, Aug. 28, will mark the […]