Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF)

Stephen M. Prescott , M. D.
President
825 N.E. 13th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Phone: 405/271-6673
FAX: 405/271-7190
www.omrf.org

• The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF.org) is one of the nation's oldest and most respected nonprofit biomedical research institutes.
• Its scientists are dedicated to understanding and curing human disease, focusing on such critical research areas as heart disease, cancer, lupus and Alzheimer's disease.
• OMRF is home to a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the only Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
• OMRF holds more than 500 U.S. and international patents, ranking it among the nation's leaders in patents per investigator.
• Since 1998, OMRF's funding from the National Institutes of Health has grown from $7.75 million to more than $25 million, a pace virtually unmatched among independent medical research institutes in the United States.
• It has spun off 11 biotech companies, and discoveries at OMRF led to the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of severe sepsis, which claims the lives of more than 200,000 Americans each year.
• OMRF researchers have also identified the enzyme believed responsible for Alzheimer's disease, and a drug with OMRF roots became the first drug licensed under the European Union's centralized procedure.
• OMRF's work has garnered worldwide media attention, from leading scientific publications like The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature and Science to popular media like The Today Show, The New York Times and, most recently, The Wall Street Journal.