For five years, Jeannine Tuttle Rainbolt battled valiantly against cancer. Although she ultimately succumbed in October at the age of 77, her fight against the deadly disease will live on in a new endowed chair at OMRF. The Rainbolt family has made a $1 million gift to OMRF to create the Jeannine Tuttle Rainbolt Endowed […]
Rainbolt family endows $1 million chair at OMRF
Presbyterian Health Foundation awards $500,000 to OMRF
At its board meeting yesterday, the Presbyterian Health Foundation approved a $500,000 grant to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The award will provide start-up funds for a new OMRF scientist, Dario Ramirez, Ph.D., who will join OMRF from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this winter. “We are extremely fortunate that the Presbyterian Health Foundation […]
OMRF selected for international research network
A $6 million grant is helping researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation participate in an innovative transatlantic network linking scientists who study blood-clotting disorders. OMRF is one of only three U.S. institutions selected to participate in this collaboration, which also includes three European universities. The five-year grant is among a series of Transatlantic Networks […]
OMRF offers scholarships for science teachers
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is offering scholarships for Oklahoma science teachers to participate in OMRF’s 2008 Foundation Scholar Program. For two decades, OMRF’s Foundation Scholar Program has helped Oklahoma science teachers build their classroom curriculum through hands-on laboratory work and interaction with scientists and other educators. Scholarships provide a $2,000 stipend plus housing (if […]
The mice that roared
How do complex networks of genes control obesity, cancer and heart disease? The unique rodents of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation may hold the answer. Their small size and short gestation periods make mice ideal models for studying human disease. Although garden-variety rodents don’t make the cut for research, technological advances have made it possible […]
OMRF’s James receives national honor
The American College of Rheumatology has awarded Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation researcher Judith James, M.D., Ph.D., the 2007 Edmund L. Dubois Memorial Achievement Award. The prize is presented each year to an outstanding investigator in the field of lupus research. James was honored as a result of her groundbreaking work in predicting lupus, a disease […]
