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Plafker

OMRF receives $2.25 million grant to study vision loss

February 26, 2018

OMRF scientist Scott Plafker has received a four-year grant from the NIH to study whether a natural compound can help prevent a common eye disease.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: age, aging and metabolism, anti ancer, broccoli, cabbage, central vision, compound, cruciferous, disease, effects, elderly, eye, eye institute, funding, grant, macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health, natural, newsok, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, old, OMRF, Plafker, program, r01, related, research, science, scientist-news, Scott, Scott Plafker, sulforaphane, vegetables, vision loss

OMRF scientists find clues to MS-induced vision loss

July 14, 2016

For nearly 20 percent of MS patients, vision loss is the first symptom.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Axtell, Jonathan, Plafker, robert, scientist-news, Scott, Wren

Trio of new grants brings $2.7 million to OMRF labs

May 6, 2016

Awards “a testament to the quality of research in Oklahoma”

Filed Under: News, Research News Tagged With: awards, Axtell, bleeding, blood vessels, demyelinating optic neuritis, grants, immune response, immune system, immunity, infection, inflammation, jose alberola-ila, Kincade, leakage, Lijun, Lijun Xia, McEver, national eye institute, national heart lung and blood institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Paul, Plafker, Rheal, robert, rodger, Rodger McEver, scientist-news, Scott, Scott Plafker, sepsis, Towner, vascular integrity, vision loss, white blood cells, Xia

Balancing love, life and the lab

May 19, 2015

Scott and Kendra Plafker are still achieving firsts after 17 years of marriage.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: eye disease, johns hopkins, kendra plafker, lab, life, love, macular degeneration, marriage, married, molecular biology of the cell, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, paper, Plafker, publication, scientist-news, scientists, Scott, Scott Plafker, virginia

New fat research provides insight into diabetes origins

February 26, 2013

The discovery could lead to better understanding of insulin resistance.

Filed Under: Diseases, Featured News, News, Research News Tagged With: diabetes, heart disease, high-fat diet, insulin resistance, Kinter, luke szweda, Michael, Mike Kinter, obesity, Paul Rindler, Plafker, scientist-news, Scott, type 2 diabetes

Plafker, Scott M.

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