Latest Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Stories
Grants Given to Researchers Conducting Studies that Advance Science and Medicine of Lupus WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A mobile application that could help young people manage their lupus is among five groundbreaking research projects that will receive grants from the Lupus Foundation of America. Researchers working in the areas of central or peripheral nervous system disorders in lupus, lupus that impacts the skin, adult stem cell research, and lupus kidney...
Patients, caregivers face significant financial and professional challenges ROCKVILLE, Md. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- Results of a Roper survey of the lupus community highlight that in addition to the physical burdens of lupus, the disease can contribute to significant economic challenges among patients and caregivers. Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), caregivers and physicians overwhelmingly agree that career...
Three newly confirmed lupus genes are opening new avenues of research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. A paper published in the April 6 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics describes three lupus genes discovered by OMRF researchers as part of a massive international collaboration. With help from partners around the world, including universities and research facilities in Granada, Spain, Taipei, Taiwan, Seoul, Korea, Bogota, Colombia, and across the U.S., OMRF...
SEATTLE, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC Isilon® customers City of Hope, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are taking part in an end-user panel entitled, "Redefining Storage in the Era of Big Data," at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, MA, from April 12-14. The roundtable discussion takes place at Noon...
POWAY, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Helix Wind, Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: HLXW), a global renewable energy company, announced today that in cooperation with its distributor SWG Energy, Inc., the Company has accepted an executed purchase order to provide twenty-four (24) S594 wind turbines for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). This additional purchase order was received after installation and successful completion of standard testing for two units that were previously...
A discovery by scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation could help save lives threatened by traumatic injuries like those sustained in car crashes or on the battlefield. The work also holds potential for treating severe infectious diseases and diabetes.In a paper published online today in the advance edition of the scientific journal Nature Medicine, OMRF researcher Charles Esmon, Ph.D., with co-authors Florea Lupu, Ph.D., and Jun Xu, Ph.D., has cast new light on how proteins...
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is adding a new research program focusing on studying and treating patients with autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. The Clinical Immunology Research Program will be headed by Judith James. The new program is part of a larger initiative at OMRF to increase translational research - work that focuses on transforming discoveries in the laboratory into new diagnostics and treatment for human disease....
Lixte Biotechnology Holdings has filed a patent application for the use of compounds the company is developing for treatment of brain tumors as potential treatments for neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. John Kovach, president and CEO of Lixte, said: "Lixte has developed a series of novel compounds that inhibit the growth of common brain cancers of adults and children in mouse models. We have now found that some variants of these compounds have effects...
By The Edmond Sun, Okla. Jul. 12--EDMOND -- For six Oklahoma science teachers, including one from Deer Creek, this summer has provided the chance to put on different shoes: those of students. The educators, all middle and high-school teachers, were selected from a statewide applicant pool as Foundation Scholars at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In the four-week program, the teachers work together in an OMRF laboratory, performing experiments and learning laboratory techniques...
A new drug combination developed through a collaboration of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Hough Ear Institute along with support from Integris Health has shown promise in reducing hearing loss. The treatment could have both military and civilian applications. OMRF's Robert Floyd, working with Hough CEO and retired Army ear surgeon Richard Kopke, found that a combination of two compounds - 4- OHPBN nitrone and the drug n-acetyl-cysteine - could stop damage to the inner ear...
