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The National Institutes of Health has awarded OMRF $7.03 million to help build out three floors of it new research tower. The funds are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to build out lab, clinic and mechanical space for OMRF clinical investigators studying autoimmune diseases. Tower construction began in 2009 and is expected to finish by January 2011.
“This grant will allow us to significantly enhance
patient-oriented programs at OMRF,” said OMRF President Stephen
Prescott, M.D. “With these funds, we’ll be able to expand our
treatment and study of Oklahomans suffering from multiple
sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.”
At the annual Oklahoma Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet on Saturday, OMRF won six top prizes for its public relations materials. OMRF took first place in the public relations category for its magazine Findings, its annual report and year-end fundraising appeal, which sought donations for cancer research. OMRF public relations specialist Greg Elwell won a pair of
top prizes for writing—one for a story he wrote about an
Oklahoman saved by an OMRF discovery and another for a press
release detailing OMRF’s work combating swine flu. OMRF creative
director Jenny Lee was also honored for best PR publication
cover.
In life, Julia McHale valued learning and considered a good education one of the most precious gifts to give to a child. In death, the retired Oklahoma State University professor left a gift that will help provide quality science education for generations to come. This month, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation received a gift of $34,000 from the estate of McHale, who died last year at the age of 89. The gift, which McHale designated for OMRF’s Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar Program, brings her total giving to OMRF to $90,000. Beginning in 1983, McHale made regular gifts to the medical
research foundation, primarily to education programs. Before she
died last year, the longtime Stillwater resident made a
provision in her will to ensure that her last gift, too, would
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