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Home - OMRF News - Archives for Bob Axtell

Bob Axtell

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

Girl Interrupted

Leah Campbell lost her sight to an unknown illness. Then it stole her ability to move. Could doctors stop the mystery disease before it took her life?   Leah Campbell’s days begin about the time the sun rises. After waking and having breakfast, she answers dozens of emails. Often, she composes just as many new […]

OMRF receives $2.8 million grant to study rare disorder

August 23, 2018

The grant will provide Bob Axtell with $2.8 million to study NMO and investigate its similarities to other autoimmune diseases, particularly MS.

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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.

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OMRF scientist receives grant to study rare autoimmune disorder

September 19, 2017

The National Eye Institute will provide Bob Axtell with $2.8 million to study NMO.

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Autoimmune Disease

Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren’s syndrome and more than 80 other disorders known as autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system becomes unbalanced and turns on the body instead of protecting it. Many of these illnesses strike women at much higher rates than men. OMRF physicians and researchers are looking for the […]

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