Tag: OUHSC

$20 million given to cancer center

November 28, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY – Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine announces a $20-million gift from the Stephenson Family Foundation and Peggy and Charles Stephenson, the center’s namesakes and longtime supporters of The University of Oklahoma. The gift to the OU Foundation will expand the research mission of Stephenson Cancer Center. To extend the impact of the…

Early detection of prostate cancer

September 12, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY – Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, and while it typically grows slowly, it can be deadly. Physicians at Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine recommend that men begin annual prostate cancer screening at age 50 — earlier if family history suggests greater risk. Urologic oncologist Michael Cookson,…

Study links addictions to genetics

August 29, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY – Why do some people face a higher risk than others for alcoholism and drug abuse? A researcher at the OU College of Medicine, William R. Lovallo, Ph.D., recently published one of the field’s few studies focused on how a person’s genes contribute to addiction. Lovallo’s research showed that a tiny genetic mutation…

$18m grant to OU Health Sciences

August 8, 2019

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 will not raise tuition this year

July 11, 2019

The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents decided not to raise tuition and flat fees for the second year in a row. The new budget does have funding for faculty and staff salary increases – the first salary increase plan in Norman for the past five years. Tuition has been the same since 2017. “The…

Cancer research underway at OU

July 11, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY — Physician-scientists at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine recently gave 30 presentations about their cutting-edge cancer research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the largest oncology meeting in the world. Their presentations focused on the results of clinical trials and research studies for new cancer therapies…

OU researches tooth-colored fillings

May 23, 2019

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…

Editorial: Fiscal sanity for Oklahoma U.

March 28, 2019

When Jim Gallogly became president of The University of Oklahoma, it didn’t take him long to find out that the school had more than a billion dollars in debt. Liberal Democrats blamed a lack of funding for higher education but the truth is the problem on the Norman campus was poor leadership and reckless spending….

Grant targets aging, disease issues

February 14, 2019

To advance research in the field of geroscience – which studies the relationship between aging and disease – the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has been awarded a $10.7 million federal grant. The grant brings national recognition to geroscience research at the OU College of Medicine, the academic partner of OU Medicine. Simply getting…