By Kevan Goff-Parker Copyright ©2019, The Oklahoman PHILADELPHIA — More than 40 Oklahoma bioscience and industry experts from a wide array of fields are busy telling global industry leaders about the state’s successes in the bioscience sector during the BIO International Conference held Tuesday through Thursday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Manu Nair,Read more
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By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Tulsa World/BH Media Group The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is one of the finest biomedical research institutions in the world. I2E is honored to be a commercialization partner with this organization of 400-plus scientists who evince such a passion and singular focus on understanding and curing human disease.Read more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoman As keynote speaker at last week’s Oklahoma Center for Science and Technology (OCAST) Health Research Conference, James A. Rogers III, with Mayo Clinic, delivered a sobering forecast for scientists seeking to commercialize discoveries made in their laboratories. “It’s a bit of a roller coaster to be involvedRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © (2017), The Oklahoma Publishing Co. The holiday season is a time of hope, optimism, and belief in all possibilities and, for some, even the belief in impossibilities. In our line of business at i2E, we regularly work shoulder to shoulder with Oklahoma-based startups and entrepreneurs who battle the seemingly impossibleRead more
By CAROLINA HENRIQUES Lupas News Today Progentec Diagnostics is closer to marketing a new set of tools for predicting lupus flares after obtaining $1.25 million in financing. The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation created the technology the company is using. Progentec is collaborating with Dr. Judith James, a lupus researcher who developed the technology, to refineRead more
By Paula Burkes Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Scientists don’t yet know why some 1.5 million Americans have lupus, an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own healthy tissues. Symptoms surface mostly in women ages 16 to 34 and vary from rashes and joint pain to deadly organ failure. Physician-scientist JudithRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Over the last year, Progentec Diagnostics, a startup that is focused on developing breakthrough diagnostics, has made significant progress on a diagnostic test to identify patients at increased risk for flare in lupus. Lupus is a viciously painful disease that generally surfaces in women inRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Does anyone in your life suffer from hearing loss? In the U.S., hearing loss impacts the daily lives of 48 million people from young to old — in classrooms, in conversation, in business and social settings, even at home as they watch a football gameRead more
JULY 17, 2017 — The Presbyterian Health Foundation has awarded $3.73 million in new grants to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and OMRF. The grants will support more than 30 research and clinical projects, purchase scientific equipment and provide a recruitment package for a new senior-level researcher. “As biomedical research grants become exceedinglyRead more
By Paula Burkes Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Q: Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved 22 new drugs. How does that compare to past years? A: It’s a sharp drop-off from 2016, when we saw twice as many new drugs reach the market. Over the previous five years, the FDA hadRead more
By Paula Burkes Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Most scientists spend a lifetime hoping their research contributes to a body of work that collectively will lead to a new drug that will treat or cure a disease. For Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Rodger “Rod” McEver, that body of knowledge was developed in hisRead more
In October, the Brookings Institute announced Oklahoma City as one of two pilot cities that are part of a study into developing an Innovation District. It already has held informational meetings and tours to gather ideas on just what that might look like.
Oklahoma researchers find clues to the origins of lupus By Sheri Hawkins Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company In a new research study, scientists from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have helped identify more than 1,000 genetic variants that may play a role in whether a person develops the autoimmune disease lupus. Going forward,Read more
It’s a rare moment that the leaders and scientists of Oklahoma’s bioscience industry can come together to share the collaborative spirit that is such a part of who they are and what they are creating. The annual OKBIO Summit and BioScience Awards dinner is one of those moments.
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City Voices from the Startup Community in Innovation Magazine Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America WeGoLook.com co-founder and CEO Robin Smith: “There are startup ‘hotbeds’ and innovation hubs all around the country that have been coined as such for a variety of reasons. But in many of these places itRead more
Two decades after Oklahoma City embraced a groundbreaking initiative that remade the city through a series of pay-as-you-go projects, another initiative is emerging with implications for economic development. In October, the Brookings Institution announced that Oklahoma City is one of two pilot cities included in a study about developing an innovation district in an area of the city heavily focused on biotechnology research.
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City For Entrepreneurs, Oklahoma City is, well, OK By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Actually, it’s way better than OK, having developed into an impressive technology center from what was once not much. Oklahoma City was cloaked in a depressing vibe in the early 1990s. Downtown retailRead more
I get really excited when I see an Oklahoma startup improving the lives of people who have incurable debilitating disease. That’s the story of Progentec Diagnostics, a startup that is focused on developing breakthrough diagnostics. The firm’s initial focus is on developing a diagnostic test to identify patients at increased risk for flare in lupus, an incurable autoimmune disease that afflicts 1.5 million patients in the U.S.
For the sake of Oklahoma’s energy sector, let’s hope the New Year brings a bump in oil and gas prices. But even if that doesn’t happen, there are still plenty of economic silver linings to be found in the state.
Oklahoma City has hit its share of biotech home runs.
Alexion, the biotech giant with a market capitalization of almost $40 billion, grew out of discoveries made at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Likewise, work at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center gave birth to Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, which Genzyme purchased for more than $200 million in 2001. And Myriad Genetics acquired OMRF spin-off Crescendo Biosciences in 2014 for $270 million.
