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Home - OMRF News - Archives for chris schafer

chris schafer

More Than Meets the Eye

Researchers studying vision loss make a surprising discovery about the lungs.

OMRF discovery points to cause of deadly lung condition

August 31, 2023

The work could lead to a medication that prevents or treats ARDS before a patient requires a ventilator.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: acute respiratory distress syndrome, and Vascular Biology, ARDS, Arteriosclerosis, chris schafer, Courtney, erg, Griffin, scientist-news, thrombosis

2020 Annual Report: New Hope for Treating Vision Loss

The calls and emails came almost immediately. Within days of publishing a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about a novel compound that could reverse vision loss in premature infants and adults with diabetes, Dr. Courtney Griffin’s inbox and voicemail began to fill. The messages came from Michigan, Washington and Texas, […]

OMRF testing new drug that could reverse some types of vision loss

October 7, 2020

Vision loss plagues millions of Americans each year. Right here in the Sooner State, a team of researchers is working to fight it.

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OMRF discovery holds potential for reversing vision loss

October 6, 2020

OMRF scientists have identified a compound that could give birth to therapies for a host of eye diseases.

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