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OMRF, OBI partner to fight rheumatoid arthritis

May 3, 2017

OBI’s new software system, Bio-Linked, will be used to match willing blood donors with researchers at OMRF to build a volunteer group for StopRA.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: antibody, autoimmune, bio-linked, blood, blood donors, ccp, charles mooney, disease, donor, healthy, James, john armitage, Judith, Judith James, naiad, National Institutes of Health, newsok, NIAID, NIH, obi, OKC, oklahoma blood institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, pain, participation, people, prevention, ra, rheumatoid arthritis, scientist-news, screening, stephen prescott, stiffness, StopRA, swelling, technology, test, trials

Blood test identifies people at high risk for lupus

April 6, 2017

New research will help physicians better identify blood relatives of lupus patients at risk for developing the disease.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: anti-inflammatory, autoimmune, biomedical, chair, clinic, clinical trial, develop, disease, drug, guthridge, healthy, high risk, iowa, James, Joel, Judith, Judith James, lupus, m.d., Melissa Munroe, NIAID, NIH, nonprofit, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, ou, OUHSC, paper, partner, patients, ph.d., population, prevent, prevention, published, relative, scientist-news, smile, staff, study, symptoms, therapy, trial

New OMRF grant to investigate rare autoimmune disease

December 8, 2016

OMRF has received $646,000 to study the genetic origins of NMO.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune, Axtell, blind, Bob Axtell, Chris Lessard, christopher, disease, eye, funding, Gabriel Pardo, grant, Lessard, MS, MS Center of Excellence, multiple sclerosis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, neuromyelitis optica, news, newsok, NIAID, NMO, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rare, research, robert, science, scientist-news

New OMRF grant will study immune cell linked to asthma

August 4, 2016

The role of the new cell is to protect the body from parasitic infection.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: asthma, bone marrow, CDC, discovery, funding, grant, immune cell, infection, innate lymphoid cell, National Institutes of Health, newsok, NIAID, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, r01, research, science, scientist-news, Sun, t-cells, thymus, Xiao-Hong, xiao-hong sun

OMRF named an Autoimmunity Center of Excellence

June 25, 2014

As an ACE, OMRF will collaborate with scientists at other top institutions.

Filed Under: Featured News, News, Research News Tagged With: A., ACE, autoimmunity center of excellence, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, darise farris, diabetes, Farris, Gaffney, James, Judith, Judith James, Kathy, kathy sivils, lupus, multiple sclerosis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, patrick, Patrick Gaffney, rheumatoid arthritis, scientist-news, sivils, Sjogren's syndrome, TTP

OMRF discovers three new lupus genes

March 29, 2012

The international study turns up new targets for lupus research

Filed Under: Diseases, Featured News, News Tagged With: Alarcon, autoimmune, autoimmune disease, autoimmunity, Chris Lessard, christopher, Courtney, courtney gray montgomery, DNA, dna testing, Gaffney, genes, genome, international, James, Joan, Judith, Kathy, Kathy Moser, Lessard, lupus, Lupus Foundation of America, Merrill, Montgomery, Moser, NIAID, NIAMS, NIH, patrick, Patrick Gaffney, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, sivils, SLE

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