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Congrats to #AGE2026 Early Career Scholar Awardee Laura Quijano Sarraga (@OMRF)! Recognized by the #AmericanAgingAssociation, her research focuses on skeletal muscle aging and diaphragm fibrosis, with interests in Alzheimer’s disease and translational neuroscience. #Geroscience

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-3…

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

Happy to share our new manuscript is now online @CircRes (ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…), congrats @HinaLateef who led this to finish line, @keatonminor @AnnChiaoPhD @OMRF @BCVSearlyCareer @OUHSC_GPiBS @AM_OMRF

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!

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. 🧬 🩵

At 60, Sandy Roark was told she had two years to live. At 86, she’s symptom‑free — thanks to a breakthrough therapy. How basic research at @OMRF became a life‑saving drug, and the woman who calls it her “miracle.” Read the full story: okbusinessvoice.com/2026/03/06/a-r…

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 @PutnamCityOK year after year. 🩵

Watch more from yesterday's PC Jr. Scientist Day on KFOR! kfor.com/video/junior-s… 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 Thursday! 🚌

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/rar…

Wonderful discussion panel for alternative career path next week! Hemangi Pakala, Director Tech Venture @OMRF, Shiz Aoki, CEO @BioRender, Brandon Berry, associate editor @ScienceTM, Gavin Pharaoh, scientist @GordianBio to share their experiences @BCVSearlyCareer @arianneinthelab

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/res…

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. 🧠 Meet Dr. Sharpe: omrf.org/2026/02/19/omr…

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! koco.com/article/oklaho…