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
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For more than three decades, Stanton Young was the guiding force in creating a medical hospital and research district east of downtown, protecting it from encroachment by any businesses or development not related to the core mission. Young’s approach worked, and a cluster of hospitals, bio-tech firms, and the University of Oklahoma’s medical schools have emerged along Lincoln Boulevard between NE 4 and NE 13 that is now home to a workforce totaling more than 17,000. Add thousands of patients and visitors into the mix and we have the equivalent of a major university campus adjoining downtown.
Through BioShare, OBI will supply researchers with stem cells and other blood products, said Charles Mooney, the blood bank’s vice president of New Ventures & Quality Management.
