Nonprofit foundation lauded for economic impact in Oklahoma
Soliris
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 […]
Oklahomans meet scientists whose work saved their lives
There was something special about the meeting of scientists Drs. Peter Sims and Therese Wiedmer and Oklahomans Greg Watkins and Sandy Roark at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation on Thursday. It wasn’t the broad smiles, the handshakes or the conversation – it’s that the meeting almost never happened. Greg Watkins and Sandy Roark have the […]
Prayers, Answered
A New Birthday
Technically, Greg Watkins was born on August 10, 1949. But if you ask the McAlester dentist his birthday, he might give you another answer. “I tell people that April 20 is my new birthday of a new life,” he says. That’s the day in 2007 that doctors began treating his PNH with Soliris—a drug born […]
