The Aging and Metabolism Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (@OMRF).
Joined January 2018
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As women hit their mid-30s, ovaries begin to experience chronic, low-level inflammation.
Two OMRF scientists are studying what triggers this inflammation.
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Congratulations to my Research Assistant Professor, Dr. Kamil Kobak, for receiving the 2026 APS CV Section Young Investigator Award! #APS2026 #APSSummit
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Congrats to #AGE2026 Early Career Scholar Awardee Laura Quijano Sarraga (@OMRF)!
Recognized by the #AmericanAgingAssociation, her research focuses on skeletal muscle aging and diaphragm fibrosis, with interests in Alzheimer’s disease and translational neuroscience.
#Geroscience
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Congratulations!!
Happy to share our new manuscript is now online @CircRes (ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…), congrats @HinaLateef who led this to finish line, @keatonminor @AnnChiaoPhD @OMRF @BCVSearlyCareer @OUHSC_GPiBS @AM_OMRF
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Way to go, Mike! @mjbeckstead
OMRF scientist, Dr. Mike Beckstead, hopes to make discoveries about addiction that will apply not just to meth but also to other drugs.
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RT @HughesDC_Muscle: The Lab had a great time contributing to this event and giving back to the wider community 👏🏼👏🏼
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Don't forget to register for the OK Nathan Shock Center Mentorship Research Showcase! 📍 Where: Zoom 🕙️ When: March 25, 10:00AM (CST) - 1:00P (CST) 🔗 Registration: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/reg…... For more information, visit oklahomanathanshockcenterona…... See you there!
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For OMRF scientist Dr. Wan Hee Yoon, Rare Disease Day carries more significance than usual. It comes the same week that The American Journal of Human Genetics published his lab team’s discovery of an ultra-rare neurological disease.
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🧬 Registration for the Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center 2026 Geroscience Symposium is now open! Register here: oklahomanathanshockcenterona…
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The Aging Gene Discovery (AGeD) Collaborative NSC Pilot Award submissions are due in just over a month! Don't forget to submit your application!
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Check out the recent publication in Nature related to the effects of sterilization on lifespan. Our own Michael Stout contributed to this report from an international team lead by Mike Garratt (University of Otago, New Zealand).
Nature research paper: Sterilization and contraception increase lifespan across vertebrates
go.nature.com/4540KeJ
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Aging and Metabolism Research Program retweeted
27 Dec 2025
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Spotlight on Dr. Michael Stout (@OMRF) — exploring how cellular stress and metabolic pathways shape aging and influence healthspan.
#AgingResearch #Geroscience #Healthspan #Metabolism #AGEBoard #OMRF
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Alzheimer's disease 🧠research from the Rice lab . They have modeled how presynaptic inhibition by the amyloid precursor protein (APP) could be a key mechanism for preventing "runaway synaptic modification." @HeatherRicePhD
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Cellular deterioration in the brain begins long before someone with Alzheimer’s shows symptoms. OMRF scientist, Dr. Tommy Lewis, backed by a new National Institutes of Health grant, will explore whether this deterioration can be stopped. 🧠
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12 Nov 2025
New paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association @JAHA_AHA. PFKFB2 is essential for the heart's metabolic flexibility, regulating its ability to adapt to fasting and stress, and controlling protein O-GlcNAcylation. Congrats @harold_kylene!
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Nice job, Ann!
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So well deserved! Congrats, Arlan!
10 Nov 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Arlan Richardson on receiving the 2025 George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award at #GSA2025 today!
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9 Nov 2025
Our own @OMRF Investigator @AnnChiaoPhD will discuss cardiac aging today at 418pm in room 210 @AHAScience #aha25
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From our own Dr. Benjamin Miller's Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lecture: Protein and energy metabolism: a state of flux journals.physiology.org/doi/…
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Why do some people get massive gains from exercise while others see little change? 🤔
The M^3AX Trial is diving into the "Inter-individual Response Heterogeneity" to figure out how to maximize adaptations to exercise, especially as we age.
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