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The efforts of biomedical research defy the unknown. The basic research conducted in the many laboratories across the Oklahoma Health Center campus change despair and mystery into hope and cures.
For research scientists, the minutes, days and years of important research culminate in a moment when discovery unmasks the unknown and humanity is one step closer to the truth.
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Erick was brought to The Children’s Hospital at OU MEDICAL CENTER when he was only nine months old with Bilateral Wilms Tumor, a cancer involving both of his kidneys. Erick’s left kidney and a portion of his right kidney were removed. He had numerous surgeries, chemotherapy and multiple hospital stays. William Meyer, M.D., the Children’s Medical Research Institute Ben Johnson Endowed Chair and an OU Physician, led his medical team in treating Erick with the best cancer protocol in the nation. Erick is a living miracle.
OU Health Sciences Center researcher and cardiac electrophysiologist Warren Jackman, M.D., has treated more than 2,500 patients with his revolutionary new treatment - radio frequency catheter ablation. He is considered the world’s preeminent authority on the use of the procedure, which cures cardiac arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats that can be fatal.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is home to Morris Reichlin, M.D., for whom the definitive diagnostic test for lupus–the Reichlin Profile–is named.
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