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Bodywork: Why don’t Covid-19 vaccinations last a lifetime?

October 19, 2021

Some vaccines last a lifetime. How come Covid-19 shots don’t seem to?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, McEver, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news

OMRF co-leading national extra dose Covid-19 vaccine trial in people with autoimmune disease

October 13, 2021

OMRF was chosen because it is one of just 10 designated Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence in the U.S.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune, booster, clinical trial, covid, Judith James, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, scientist-news, vaccine

A Promising Future

Okay. We still have a ways to go in this decade. But even in spite of the pandemic, the 2020s are off to a strong start at OMRF. Dr. Lijun Xia published groundbreaking new research in the journal Science and secured a new $13.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Courtney Griffin […]

Research on the Rise

In 2011, OMRF completed the largest campus expansion in the foundation’s history. With the construction of a new research tower, OMRF added 186,000 square feet of research and clinical space to its research campus. Funded through a combination of private gifts and state and federal grants, the facility houses dozens of laboratories, an imaging and […]

Eureka Moments

The new millennium began with a bang at OMRF, as Dr. Jordan Tang, above, and his research team identified and cloned the enzyme believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. Soon after, the OMRF scientists designed an inhibitor that stopped the enzyme in its tracks. The discoveries led to the development of an experimental drug acquired by […]

Making A Mark

A patent provides its owner with an exclusive right to a new invention. And beginning in the 1990s, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a multitude to OMRF, sometimes more than a dozen in a single year. Only a decade earlier did Congress give OMRF and others the right to patent inventions that stemmed […]

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