By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company As she completed her Ph.D. in Molecular and Integrated Physiology at the University of Illinois in 2009, Carol Curtis began seeking biotechnology industry opportunities in Florida. Curtis’ husband, Kevin, had been transferred to Florida with his job just as she was completing her Ph.D. “ForRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright 2014, © The Oklahoma Publishing Company In 1861, the 1st Kentucky cavalry was organized at a call to arms near Liberty, KY. The first recruitment meeting took place seven-tenths of a mile from the farm on which Robert Floyd grew up 78 years later. “I walked to school right there,” Floyd,Read more
By Sarah Terry-Cobo Courtesy of The Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – Robert Broyles received $218,000 to advance his business, and he aims to turn it into more than $1 million. If he is successful, the chief scientific officer and founder of EpimedX could also help thousands of people who are suffering from a debilitating geneticRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, Oklahoma Publishing Company Late on a Sunday evening in 2009, Robert Broyles, Ph.D., pushed a key on a computer and submitted a grant application to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Then a professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Broyles was advancing a novel approach toRead more
