It's marathon weekend in OKC! Good luck to our 62 OMRF employees running in the OKC Memorial Marathon this Sunday! 🏃 We'll also have an official cheer zone near mile 2 on the course near 4th and Lincoln! Come say hi! 👋📣

OMRF's Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Adam Cohen, and Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Tim Hassen, are in Washington, D.C. with Rep. Stephanie Bice advocating for medical research. We are proud and excited to have them representing OMRF and AIRI on Capitol Hill! 🧬 🏛️

This week, our Ambassadors hosted their annual Science Lounge, giving young professionals an inside look at how OMRF's research impacts Oklahoma and beyond. 🧬🍸 Thanks to our presenting sponsor, Tyler Media, and others for making the event a success!

Our Fleming Scholars were sweet in the 60s! ⭐ The Fleming Scholar program gained momentum, and we welcomed former OMRF VP of Research Dr. Rod McEver as a scholar in 1965! Learn more about our Fleming anniversary and reunion event at omrf.org/flemingreunion.

Watch the Dillingham family share more about their sister Lori's impact friends, family and others living with MS. youtu.be/_OoQEfGDWik?...

We had a fabulous time at the MS Advocate Award Dinner last week! 💜 We honored the legacy of Lori Dillingham and raised a record-breaking $660,000 for MS research and clinical care at OMRF.

Last night's Multiple Sclerosis Advocate Award Dinner raised a record-breaking $660,000 for MS research and clinical care at OMRF! 🎉 Read more: omrf.org/omrf-dinner-...

Tonight, we will host our annual Multiple Sclerosis Advocate Award Dinner and honor the legacy of Lori Dillingham, an advocate whose compassion and generosity were rooted in improving everyday life for people, like her, living with MS. 💜 Thank you to our major sponsors!

OMRF's Dr. Tommy Lewis sat down with KOCO to share more about his new grant to study the mitochondria and their effect on Alzheimer's. Watch now! www.koco.com/article/okla...

New labs, research breakthroughs and more! 🧬 Read our 2025 Annual Report now: omrf.org/about-omrf/n...

As we approach the 70th anniversary of our Fleming Scholar program, we're going through the decades to highlight past scholars and their time at OMRF! ⭐ Former Fleming Scholars, we want to invite you to our reunion event this summer! omrf.org/training-out...

We love sharing the great work our scientists are doing with the community! Want to learn more? Join us at one of our Spotlight Conversations events in May, or email us at [email protected] for more information.

It's World Health Day! 🌎 This year's theme is "Together for health: Stand with science." 🧬🔬 Here at OMRF, our scientists work to unlock the mysteries of human health and disease to help people live longer, healthier lives.

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow OMRF scientist Dr. Tommy Lewis to continue to study the importance of mitochondria in brain function and hopes to pave the way for strategies that might one day allow for the repair or regeneration of neurons. omrf.org/with-2-3-mil...

OMRF scientist Dr. Hae Ryong Kwon will investigate how bone marrow forms inside the skull. His findings ultimately could lead to improved treatment options for brain injuries and diseases. Read more: omrf.org/new-omrf-gra...

OMRF postdoctoral fellow Dr. Charmain Johnson received the American Heart Association’s Career Development Award, which comes with a research grant funding her study of an autoimmune disease that sometimes results in organ failure. 🫀 Read more: omrf.org/omrf-scienti...

OMRF scientist, Dr. Mike Beckstead, hopes to make discoveries about addiction that will apply not just to meth but also to other drugs. Read more: omrf.org/omrf-secures...

Dr. Mike Beckstead said the findings from this study could apply to other addictive substances as well. Read more: omrf.org/omrf-secures...

More photo fun from this year's scientific retreat! 🧬📸

That's a wrap for our 2026 Scientific Retreat! 🧬 It was a great two days full of collaboration, presentations and some fun along the way. We are leaving inspired and ready to continue making discoveries that make a difference!

Happy to share our new manuscript is now online @CircRes (www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...), congrats Hina Nizami who led this to finish line and my team, @annchiao.bsky.social @omrf.bsky.social @am-omrf.bsky.social

March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, and here at OMRF, we combine MS research with clinical care to improve outcomes for patients living with MS!

Say hello to our newest Ambassadors Jessica Bland and Bronson Coop! 👋 Both Jessica and Bronson personally know the importance of medical research and the impact it can make on people's lives. 🧬 🩵

No offense to our scientists, but these might be the cutest researchers we've had in the labs! 🔬🥽 We had a blast with Putnam City students for PC Jr. Scientist Days this week! This is our way of saying THANK YOU for all the support from Putnam City Schools year after year. 🩵

Watch more from yesterday's PC Jr. Scientist Day on KFOR! kfor.com/video/junior... We can't wait to welcome our elementary group tomorrow! 🚌

Each year, we invite Putnam City students to OMRF to say THANK YOU for their support! They get to be scientists for a day, perform their own experiments and hear more about what our scientists are doing through their donations. We will welcome PC elementary students later this week! 🚌

OMRF is on the road again for Spotlight Conversations! Last week, we visited our friends in Alva to share more about healthy hearts and what else our scientists are researching at OMRF. 🫀🧬 We'll also be heading to Ada, Lawton and Tulsa this spring!

For OMRF scientist Dr. Wan Hee Yoon, Rare Disease Day carries more significance than usual. It comes the same week that The American Journal of Human Genetics published his lab team’s discovery of an ultra-rare neurological disease. 🧬 Read more: omrf.org/2026/02/27/r...

Dr. Paul Kincade devoted his life to medical research, spending his entire career probing the mysteries of the human immune system. That commitment continued upon his death, with the former VP of research at OMRF making a $500,000 estate gift to OMRF. omrf.org/2026/02/23/r...

Mark your calendar! Registration for the 2026 Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center Geroscience Symposium opens NEXT WEEK! For more information about abstracts, travel awards, and registration, visit oklahomanathanshockcenteronaging.org/geroscience-...

Meet new Ambassadors Perrin Duncan, Mike Hearne, Kyle Muzny, Caitlin Tharp and Madeleine Williams!⭐ As a part of our Ambassadors program, these young leaders help us advocate for medical research and share the good things OMRF is doing through research! 🧬

Say hello to our newest principal investigator, Dr. Amanda Sharpe! 👋 Dr. Sharpe's lab focuses on how chronic low levels of inflammation in the brain can affect the entire body. 🧠 We are excited to welcome her to our Aging & Metabolism research program. Meet Dr. Sharpe: omrf.org/2026/02/19/o...

Each year, we recognize our employees' years of service and longevity with an employee-wide celebration! 🎉 This year, we had many one-year anniversaries, five, ten, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and one employee who celebrated 45 years at OMRF!

We started the day with celebrations! 🥳 Our Employee Service Awards honored employees with one-year anniversaries all the way to one employee who celebrated 45 years at OMRF! 🎉

Watch more from our friends at KOCO about our grand opening of the Meinders Center for Neurodegenerative Research! www.koco.com/article/okla...

OMRF dedicated the Research Tower's fifth floor as the Meinders Center for Neurodegenerative Research, thanks to a $8.25 million gift by Herman Meinders and the Meinders Foundation. The new space will serve as a hub for studying brain diseases in Oklahoma. omrf.org/2026/02/16/o...

We're showing our hearts some love this Valentine's Day with the annual cardiac climb! ❤️ Each year around Valentine's Day, we challenge our employees to climb all seven floors of our Research Tower to promote healthy hearts! 🫀

OMRF's Dr. Heather Rice studies amyloid precursor proteins and their role in Alzheimer’s. Thanks to a gift from Harrison and Elaine Levy, her lab will continue to advance this research!

Know a student who'd be a great fit? Applications are due March 1! ⭐ Learn more: omrf.org/2026/02/09/o...

This week, we celebrated our Comparative Medicine team for International Laboratory Animal Technician Week! This year's theme, "Technicians keep research sailing forward," is a true testament to the hard work they do for OMRF! Thank you for all you do for research! ⛵

OMRF scientist Dr. Heather Rice studies molecules in the brain called amyloid precursor proteins. Faulty breakdown of these proteins creates plaques that are thought to damage neurons and cause cognitive decline as Alzheimer’s progresses. 🧠 Read more: omrf.org/2026/02/05/n...

A powerful new technology developed at OMRF could dramatically speed up the process of diagnosing rare genetic diseases. Read more: omrf.org/2026/02/03/o...

OMRF is seeking a new HR Specialist with a recruiting focus to join the team! In this role, you will work closely with hiring managers to support full-cycle recruitment, help coordinate hiring activities, and contribute to a positive candidate experience. omrf.org/about-omrf/h...

Our paper on TCBE-Umax is out in @natbiomedeng.nature.com! We developed these high-efficiency cytosine base editors for zebrafish, enabling rapid functional testing of disease variants. This work is led by a talented scientist, Wei Qin. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to a grant from the Presbyterian Health Foundation, a pilot project seeks to answer what makes some people respond differently to exercise than others in older people with multiple sclerosis. Read more: omrf.org/2026/01/27/o...

We warmed up before the cold came in yesterday with Coffee and Conversations! ☕❄️ Our philanthropy team invited members of the community to visit OMRF and learn more about the research we do for Oklahomans and beyond - this time we heard from Dr. Pardo, MS Center Director.

OMRF postdoc Dr. Alexsander Szymczak will study why some are more prone to infection after joint replacement than others. Watch more from KFOR: kfor.com/video/omrf-s...

Congrats to all our PIs who received grants in 2025! After the year of uncertainty for funding research, these are all big wins for our scientists! 👏🧬🏆

Go fish! 🐟 Watch more from our friends at OETA on how OMRF scientist Dr. Jaya Krishnan uses cavefish to study diabetes and other diseases: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIr4...

We are sad to report the passing of OMRF Director Brooks “Boots” Hall, Jr.   Boots served as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President of Hall Capital. He joined OMRF’s Associate Board in 1987 and became an OMRF Director in 1994.