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Home - OMRF News - Archives for autoimmune disease

autoimmune disease

Changing The Odds

March Today, just 1 in 5,000 experimental compounds proves safe and effective enough to reach patients. For new drugs, the road to hospitals and clinics is steep and long. Researchers screen countless promising compounds, but they choose only a few to begin clinical trials. Of those selected, roughly 9 out of 10 will fail. For that […]

Protecting Oklahomans From the Virus

New OMRF grant to study Covid-19 in state’s different ethnic populations

A Battle That Never Ends

Renita Lewis fights lupus, which takes an outsized toll on African Americans.

Searching for light in the darkness

February 25, 2020

Mustang woman lives with rare autoimmune disease

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune disease, blindness, Bob Axtell, Gabriel Pardo, Leah Campbell, multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, NMO, paralysis

New OMRF findings pave way for more effective lupus treatments

May 2, 2019

New research from OMRF is taking physicians closer to personalized treatment solutions for patients suffering from lupus.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune disease, blood markers, cellcept, drug, guthridge, heart, immunity, James, Joel, Judith, Judith James, kidney, liver, lupus, medicine, mmf, newsok, NIAID, NIAMS, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, personalized, science, scientist-news, therapy, treatment

New OMRF grant will focus on autoimmune condition

October 24, 2018

The project will focus on comparing certain immune cells in patients with Sjögren’s to those of healthy controls.

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