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Bodywork: Plasma treatment for critically ill Covid-19 patients

April 14, 2020

What are the chances that using plasma transfusion from COVID-19 survivors will work in treating the critically ill?

Filed Under: Bodywork, COVID-19 News Tagged With: adam, blood, body work, bodywork, cohen, coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, Ebola, news, newsok, obi, OKC, oklahoma blood institute, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, plasma, Prescott, stephen, steve, therapy, transfusion

OMRF receives $5.9 million grant to study bleeding

April 11, 2019

OMRF researcher Courtney Griffin received a seven-year grant to pursue novel research into blood vessel function and factors that lead to uncontrolled bleeding.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aneurysms, bleeding, blood, courtney griffin, federal, funding, grant, Griffin, national heart lung and blood institute, newsok, NHLBI, NIH, novel, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, program, r35, stephen prescott, uncontrolled

OMRF scientist honored with national aging award

December 18, 2018

OMRF scientist Bumsoo Ahn, Ph.D., has been awarded an Irene Diamond Fund/AFAR Postdoctoral Transition Award in Aging.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: afar, aging, aging and metabolism, award, blood, bumsoo ahn, funding, ghrelin, grant, Holly, Holly Van Remmen, hormone, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, program, research, sarcopenia, scientist-news, skeletal muscle mass, van remmen, weakness

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New hope in the fight against sickle cell disease

June 14, 2018

For Mary Long, the answer to her pain may, literally, be right around the corner.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: biology, biotechnology, blood, cell, disease, drug, mary long, McEver, news, newsok, novartis, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, option, P-selectin, pain, patients, rodger, Rodger McEver, scd, scientist-news, selexys, sickle cell, therapy

OMRF discovery could lead to new therapies for MS

March 19, 2018

OMRF researchers found that, in laboratory mice, a particular white blood cell seems to play a key role in MS.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, autoimmune, Axtell, B cell, blood, Bob Axtell, discovery, disease, health, james quinn, lab, laboratory, MS, multipl sclerosis, multiple sclerosis society, national eye institute, newsok, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, paralysis, research, robert, Robert Axtell, scientist-news, scientists, spasms, t-cells, tfh cells, therapies, treatment, tremors, vision loss

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