By Jim Stafford Once a year, the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) gathers scientists from across the state who are currently receiving funding from its health research program in a sort of show-and-tell educational event. Recently, about 100 OCAST-funded life science researchers assembled at the Samis Family Education Center onRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. In a room filled with blood donors at the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s (OBI) donation center, Jennifer Chain, Ph.D., pronounces some words that don’t easily roll off the tongue. Allogeneic. Autologous. Apheresis. Chain’s audience includes me and a pair of colleagues from the Oklahoma Center forRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. TULSA — Take 45 bioscience research scientists, put them in a room together with no real agenda and you get what exactly? The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) did exactly that this week with its first Bioscience Networking Luncheon atRead more
A promising career as a securities lawyer awaited Doug Branch when he graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1982. Oklahoma was the heart of a booming energy economy with lots of oil and gas firms that needed legal work as they raised capital and dealt with regulators.
Farrow is founder and CEO of a company called Compression Solutions Inc. that manufactures the Triple Play Pro and Triple Play VT devices for use by recovering surgical patients across the country. The devices also provide intermittent compression and cold therapy to prevent the development of blood clots in the lower leg.
By Jim Stafford Copyright (©) 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company If there were an award for attendance at the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention, then my friend Josh O’Brien would no doubt be a finalist for the recognition. When the 2015 BIO International Convention and Trade Show convenes in Philadelphia on June 15, O’BrienRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Company My mother adored “Dr. Kildare.” In the mid-1960s it was, as they say, appointment television viewing in our house. I think it had to do more with the appeal of Richard Chamberlain and less with the medical cases he solved on a weekly basis. Millions ofRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company A year ago I found myself seated in the fourth row of a session at the 2014 Oklahoma BioSummit. I had no idea of what to expect, except for a chance to follow my Twitter feed for a couple hours. Then, William Hagstrom, CEO ofRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company I want to tell you a story, and it’s a good one,” Sean Akadiri told me as we sat in a conference room at i2E Inc.’s offices in the University Research Park. A native of Nigeria by way of England, Akadiri came to Oklahoma moreRead more
