Tag: NIH

$18m grant to OU Health Sciences

August 8, 2019 Tulsa Beacon

OKLAHOMA CITY – The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has received an $18.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand biomedical research for some of the most complex diseases and to develop the workforce to take that research into the future. The grant is from the NIH’s Institutional Development Award program…

OU researches tooth-colored fillings

May 23, 2019 Tulsa Beacon

When dentists discover cavities in their patients, they are often filled with a tooth-colored material that looks just like a person’s own teeth. However, tooth-colored fillings usually require replacement every five to seven years, often because tooth decay has formed under the filling. A researcher at the OU College of Dentistry in Oklahoma City is…