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Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation BIO

By sarah | OKBio | 0 comment | 13 June, 2022 | 0

To read the full 2022 i&E OKBIO edition, click here.Read more

A final column and a thank you for reading

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 1 May, 2022 | 1

Thank you for reading this column for nearly a decade By Scott Meacham This is my final column for The Oklahoman. As CEO of i2E, I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. That stacks up to more than 460 columns on all aspects ofRead more

Thankful that entrepreneurs are the rising tide that lift all our boats

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 28 November, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham Entrepreneurs are the rising tide that lifts all our boats. It is the season to count our blessings and the people and things for which we are most thankful. In some industries, the last few weeks of the year provide time to take a breath and take a break. That is notRead more

Make sure that Oklahoma innovators know about our resources

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 21 November, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham We have to make sure that Oklahoma innovators know that there are resources and mentoring available to them here. Twenty-five years ago, Oklahoma did not have a continuum of venture capital serving concept to growth stage companies. Now we do — thanks to assistance from the state acting through OCAST — fromRead more

Oklahoma companies change people’s health and lives

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 18 July, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham Oklahoma companies change people’s health and their lives. In a recent conversation, an associate described Dr. Steve Prescott’s impact on Oklahoma’s bioscience economy as “standing on the shoulders of a giant.” Indeed, as the leader of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Steve was a visionary who got things done. However, SteveRead more

Oklahoma lost a great one in Dr. Stephen Prescott

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 4 July, 2021 | 1

Back to Newsletter By Scott Meacham Oklahoma lost a great one recently with the passing of Steve Prescott after a lengthy battle with cancer. About everyone who has ever picked up the newspaper or been active in Oklahoma City business and social circles knows Steve as the long-time leader of the Oklahoma Medical Research FoundationRead more

‘What if’ is the cornerstone to entrepreneurship, investing

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 13 June, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham In entrepreneurship and venture investing, “what if” is the cornerstone of our industry. Entrepreneurship is built on promise and possibility—the willingness to imagine the unimaginable and take the risks to make it real. We all engage in the “what if” game. Oklahoma bought into “what if” in the late 1980s with theRead more

Company culture still needed when working from home

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 1 November, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We don’t really know who said this first—maybe Buddha or a Zen master — but the idea is endlessly powerful. When we open our minds and our eyes, we can learn so much from wherever we find ourselves. From wearing so many differentRead more

Presbyterian Health Foundation awards $4.6 million in new research grants

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 20 July, 2020 | 0

Contact: April Stuart (405) 319-8260 astuart@phfokc.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20, 2020: The Presbyterian Health Foundation has awarded nearly $4.6 million in biomedical research grants to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). “We remain steadfastly committed to funding cutting-edge biomedical research on the OklahomaRead more

A medical breakthrough: Pill to restore hearing loss moves closer to market

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 27 February, 2020 | 0

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Oblato Biotech Company Acquires Hearing Loss Drug Discovered by Hough Ear Institute Scientists

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 14 February, 2020 | 0

  PR Newswire February 11, 2020 Pill to restore natural hearing moves one step closer to market OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Hough Ear Institute (HEI), a nonprofit based in Oklahoma City, is proud to announce that its pharmaceutical partner, Auditus LLC (Auditus), a wholly owned subsidiary of Otologic Pharmaceutics Inc. (OPI), hasRead more

Sickle cell disease treatment has roots in lab of OMRF’s Dr. Rodger McEver

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 23 December, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham There is very big news this month for individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease (SCD). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first targeted treatment to reduce the frequency of pain crises in individuals living with SCD. This new drug — Adakveo® from Novartis — decreases theRead more

Prescott: A homegrown biotech success story

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 November, 2019 | 0

By Stephen Prescott, M.D. When Novartis announced earlier this month that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the company’s new drug to treat sickle cell anemia, the press release didn’t mention Oklahoma. But it should have. That drug, known as Adakveo, is as Oklahoman as redbuds and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Indeed, but for workRead more

When medical research turns personal

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 4 September, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Of the more than 120 types of brain and central nervous system tumors, Glioblastoma (also called GBM) is the most aggressive — a deadly brain cancer with no cure. Glioblastomas often appear with no warning or prior symptoms. These Type IV tumors tend to produce their ownRead more

Delegation Sharing Oklahoma’s Good News Bioscience Story at BIO International Convention

By sarah | News, OKBio | 0 comment | 5 June, 2019 | 0

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

i2E helps OMRF as commercialization partner

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 6 February, 2019 | 0

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

Out of the valley: Mayo Clinic shares development philosophy with OK Innovation Model

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 30 October, 2018 | 0

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

Oklahoma biotech startup seeks to make predictive tests for lupus

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 28 December, 2017 | 0

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

Progentec Obtains Financing to Continue Refining Tools for Predicting Lupus Flares

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 5 December, 2017 | 0

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

Renowned Oklahoma researcher Judith James started as OMRF intern — and never left

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 31 October, 2017 | 0

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

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