Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Nickname	OMRF
Formation	1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Type	Nonprofit organization, independent research institution
Tax ID no.	73-0580274
Legal status	501(c)3) Nonprofit Organization
Purpose	Medical Research
Headquarters	Oklahoma City, OK USA
President	Andrew S. Weyrich, Ph.D.
Budget	$92,338,587 USD
Staff	450
Website	omrf.org

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), located in the Oklahoma Health Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institute. Established in 1946, OMRF is dedicated to understanding and developing more effective treatments for human disease. Andrew S. Weyrich, Ph.D. serves as president of OMRF,^[1] which employs more than 500 scientific and administrative staff members.

OMRF's scientists, who include a member of the National Academy of Sciences, hold more than 700 U.S. and international patents and have spun off 11 biotech companies. Discoveries at OMRF led to Xigris, the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of severe sepsis, and Ceprotin, a therapy for people suffering from a rare and life-threatening blood disorder known as protein C deficiency. Research at OMRF also identified the enzyme believed responsible for Alzheimer's disease and laid the groundwork for OncoVue,^[2] a breast cancer risk assessment test.