INBRE Participants
Lead institutions:
University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center
David Dyer, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Core Director (david-dyer@ouhsc.edu)
Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation
Barton Frank, Ph.D., Microarray Core Director (barton-frank@omrf.ouhsc.edu)
Rheal Towner, Imaging Core Director (rheal-towner@omrf.ouhsc.edu)
Oklahoma has two institutions whose primary focus is biomedical research. The largest concentration of biomedical scientists is located in Oklahoma City at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). The OUHSC includes seven colleges: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Health, Public Health, and the Graduate College. The OUHSC College of Medicine also has a campus in Tulsa, about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, in which some of its medical students complete their clinical clerkships. The primary mission of the Tulsa campus of the OUHSC College of Medicine is health care training and delivery. Adjacent to the OUHSC campus in Oklahoma City lies the OMRF, a non-profit research institution whose exclusive mission is biomedical research. Although the OUHSC and OMRF are independent entities, a very close working relationship exists between them, including shared use of equipment and facilities and a significant number of scientific collaborations.
Satellite Institutions
Tyrrell Conway, Ph.D., OU Satellite Core Director (tconway@ou.edu)
Ulrich Melcher, Ph.D., OSU Satellite Core Director (biocukm@okstate.edu)
Glen Collier, Ph.D., TU Satellite Core Director (glen-collier@utulsa.edu)
In addition to the OUHSC and OMRF, three other comprehensive research campuses conduct biomedical research in Oklahoma. These are the INBRE Satellite Core Facilities. The University of Oklahoma at Norman (OU Norman) is located approximately 20 miles south of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma State University (OSU) is Oklahoma’s land-grant institution and is located in Stillwater, about 75 miles north of Oklahoma City. The OSU College of Veterinary Medicine is located on the Stillwater campus. In addition to its Stillwater campus, OSU also has a College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Tulsa. The primary mission of the College of Osteopathic Medicine is the training of physicians dedicated to primary care. Finally, the University of Tulsa (TU) is an elite private institution.
Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
Sharon Lewis, Ph.D. salewis@lunet.edu
John de Banzie, Ph.D. (debanzie@nsuok.edu)
William Kelly, Ph.D. (william.kelly@swosu.edu)
Three institutions whose focus is on undergraduate education are members of the original BRIN. Langston University is Oklahoma's only Historically Black institution of higher education and currently serves more than 4,500 students. Northeastern State University has a current enrollment of more than 8,000 students including the highest number of Native American students of any college or university in the nation. Southwestern Oklahoma State University has a current enrollment of nearly 5,000 students and is unique among Oklahoma’s regional universities in offering 9 nationally accredited degree programs in health sciences.
Southeastern Oklahoma
State University
Tim Smith, Ph.D. (tsmith@sosu.edu)
University of Central
Oklahoma
John Barthell, Ph.D. (jbarthell@ucok.edu)
John McArthur, Ph.D. jmcarthur@cameron.edu
Three new campuses expand the original BRIN network. Southeastern Oklahoma State University, located in the historical Choctaw Nation, includes approximately 3,700 students of which about 30% are Native American. The University of Central Oklahoma is located approximately 20 miles north of the OUHSC and is Oklahoma's largest primarily undergraduate university with a population of nearly 15,000 students, including about 28% underrepresented groups. Cameron University is located in southwestern Oklahoma and has an enrollment of approximately 5,500 student including a 40% minority enrollment.
Community Colleges
Oklahoma
City Community College
Charlotte Mulvihill, Ph.D. (cmulvihill@okccc.edu)
Dave Dalbow dalbowd@redlandscc.edu
Kim Winkelman, Ph.D. kwinkelman@cnc.cc.ok.us
Three community colleges are also included in Oklahoma's INBRE. Oklahoma City Community College serves 28,000 students and administers a highly successful biotechnology program. Redlands Community College, located about 25 miles to the west of Oklahoma City, is one of the state's fastest growing public colleges with a current enrollment of about 2,400 students. Comanche Nation College, Oklahoma's only tribal college, opened in August 2002.
