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OMRF findings could improve individualized lupus treatment options

September 16, 2019

The findings will help push clinicians closer to personalized medicine for lupus sufferers.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune, guthridge, James, Joan, Joel, Judith, lupus, Merrill, news, newsok, NIAID, NIAMS, NIGMS, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, scientific reports, scientist-news, therapy

Discovery casts light on workings of the immune system

May 23, 2019

The discovery could lead to new therapeutic approaches to a wide range of illnesses, including asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alberola-Ila, asthma, biomedical, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, discovery, function, funding, grant, immune, immunity, Jonathan, José, newsok, NIAID, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, organ, Presbyterian Health Foundation, psoriasis, research, role, science, scientist-news, Sun, t-cells, thymus, Wren, Xiao-Hong, xiao-hong sun

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

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.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: allergy, approved, autoimmune, Axtell, Bob Axtell, brain stem, consequences, develop, disease, infectious diseases, interferon, interferon beta, lupus, multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health, neuromyelitis optica, new, news, newsok, NIAID, NIH, NMO, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, option, robert, Robert Axtell, scientist-news, therapy, treatment

OMRF secures $2.6 million flu grant

May 24, 2018

Alberola-Ila will investigate the role a type of white blood cell plays in mounting the body’s response against flu infection.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alberola-Ila, cells, federal, flu, funding, infection, influenza, investigate, José, jose alerberola-ila, mice, models, mutate, National Institutes of Health, newsok, NIAID, NIH, nkt, OKC, pepe, proteins, public health, researcher, scientist, scientist-news, symptoms, universal flu vaccine, vaccine, virus, white blood cells

OMRF researcher tests new approach for treating deadly blood infection

July 18, 2017

Lupu’s findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bacteria, biomedical, blood, Coggeshall, complement activation system, condition, damage, deadly, defense, drug, er, failure, Florea, Florea Lupu, hospital, immune system, journal, K., lab, Lupu, NIAID, NIGMS, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, organ, pathogens, pharma, PNAS, ra pharma, research, science, scientist-news, sepsis, therapy

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