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Institute description: The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is a
private, non-profit biomedical research facility specializing in the basic science of human
disease. Research at OMRF focuses on the basic molecular mechanisms of cellular, genetic, and
metabolic diseases. The Foundation includes 8 distinct programs in the general areas of Immunology, Biochemistry, and
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. Many faculty within each program hold adjunct appointments
with the corresponding departments at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC).
OUHSC is the degree-granting institution and is partnered with OMRF in graduate education.
- Research areas: Programs at OMRF include
Arthritis & Immunology, Cardiovascular Biology, Clinical Pharmacology, Crystallography, Free
Radical Biology & Aging, Immunobiology & Cancer, Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology, and Protein Studies. The Foundation generally has 35-40
graduate students within these Program areas.
- Faculty: The Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation houses the state's only Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators and only
member of the National Academy of Science. In addition to teaching graduate courses at OUHSC,
faculty and scientists at OMRF distinguish themselves by serving on a number of national advisory
panels at institutes such as the NIH.
- Core Facilities: OMRF maintains core facilities
housing particular equipment and expertise.
- BIACore, to measure affinity and
binding kinetics of macromolecular interactions.
- DNA sequencing, with the daily
capacity to run 90 sequences.
- Flow cytometry, with three
instruments: the FACScan and FACSCalibur cytometers, capable of three and four color
fluorescence analyses, and the MoFlo cytometer capable of high throughput cell sorting.
- Imaging, to assist
researchers with imaging needs ranging from basic light and electron microscopy to digital
image processing and analysis.
- In Situ Hybridization, including tissue
sectioning, slide mounting, and hybridization histochemistry.
- Mouse Genome Manipulation
Facility, providing microinjection services of DNA into zygotes for the generation of
transgenic mice, and of ES cells into blastocysts for the generation of knockout mice.
- The Molecular Biology Resource
Facility, for protein and peptide sequencing and mass spectrometry analysis.
- Signal Transduction Core, to assist
research involving intracellular Ca2+ measurements and protein-protein interactions.
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