OKLAHOMA CITY, December 17, 2004 – The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has named Rodger McEver, M.D., as Vice President of Research and Tim Hassen as Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Rodger McEver McEver holds a B.A. from Yale University and earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He joined OMRF’s scientific staff in 1987 and […]
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OU Sorority Gives to Lupus Research at OMRF
The University of Oklahoma’s Phi Delta Alpha sorority has presented the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with a check to support lupus research at OMRF. This represents the second straight year that Phi Delta Alpha, Oklahoma’s first and only Asian sorority, has made a donation to support lupus research at OMRF. “The members of Phi Delta […]
OMRF Unveils State’s First Small Animal MRI Facility
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation unveiled Oklahoma’s first small animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. With a 10,000-pound magnet that is 140,000 times stronger than the earth’s magnetic field, the facility – one of only about a dozen in the U.S. – will allow scientists to study the cells and […]
OMRF Receives Record Bioterrorism Grant
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has received a $13.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the toxin that causes anthrax. The grant will pay $2.76 million a year through 2009 and is the largest ever awarded to an Oklahoma institution to fund bioterrorism research.With this grant, nine scientists will explore natural […]
OMRF Researcher Takes the Helm of America’s Largest Coalition of Biological Scientists
In a news conference this morning at the National Press Club, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) welcomed Paul W. Kincade, Ph.D., as its 89th President. Kincade heads the Immunobiology and Cancer Research Program and holds the William H. and Rita Bell Chair of Biomedical Research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. […]
Kim Henry, four others to join OMRF board
At its semiannual board meeting this evening, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation will add Oklahoma First Lady Kim Henry and four others to its board of directors. Joining Henry as new board members will be Gary Pierson, Dave Lopez and Jerome Holmes of Oklahoma City and Gregory Walton, M.D., of Enid. Also this evening, OMRF […]
