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OU Researcher Joins $12 Million Effort to Advance Obesity Drug Discovery

A University of Oklahoma researcher is part of an international team developing a new way to discover obesity drugs using human cells instead of animal models, an approach that could speed the development of more...

Researchers Discover Hidden ‘Recycling System’ That Helps Keep Vision Cells Healthy

For decades, scientists believed that photoreceptors in the retina relied primarily on neighboring support cells, known as the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), to remove waste. While the RPE is still responsible for...

OU College of Medicine Welcomes Largest Class in School History at White Coat Ceremony

As faculty members helped first-year medical students into crisp white coats, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Class of 2030 crossed an important threshold. The annual White Coat Ceremony marked the...

Human Study Links Reduced Inflammation to Later Myopia Onset

University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., has long hypothesized that inflammation plays a role in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in which close-up vision is clear but...

NIH Awards OU College of Medicine $10.7 Million to Advance Sensory Biology Research

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create the Oklahoma Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Sensory...