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OMRF receives grant to study underlying causes of lupus

June 20, 2019

OMRF scientist Patrick Gaffney has received a five-year, $3.1 million grant to investigate the underlying mechanisms that lead to lupus onset.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune, cause, disease, Gaffney, genes, genetic, grant, GWAS, human disease, inflammation, lupus, minority, National Institutes of Health, newsok, NIAMS, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, patrick, scientist-news, SLE, women

Dental hygiene may be key for lupus

November 29, 2018

OMRF scientists have found a link between gum disease and lupus, an autoimmune disease.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: activity, autoimmune, brush, clinic, dental, dental care, dentist, Deshmukh, disease, floss, gum disease, harini bagavant, health, lupus, medicine, ocast, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, oral, patients, scientist-news, severe, SLE, teeth, Umesh

OMRF teams with tribal clinics to fight rheumatoid arthritis

December 11, 2012

Scientists will work with Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes on rheumatoid arthritis.

Filed Under: Diseases, Featured News, News Tagged With: ada, arthritis, Cherokee, Chickasaw, James, Judith, Judith James, lupus, Muskogee, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rheumatic, rheumatic disease, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatology, scientist-news, scleroderma, Sjogren's, Sjogren's syndrome, SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus, tribal clinics

Autoimmune Disease

Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren’s syndrome and more than 80 other disorders .

Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program

Scofield, Robert H. “Hal”

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