Children s Research Institute

• Affymetrix and Children's Research Institute Form Five-year Strategic Alliance.

• Business Wire
• July 17, 2007

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Uf Proton Therapy Institute to Begin Proton Therapy Clinical Trial

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• U.S. Newswire
• November 09, 2009

• Children's Medical Research Institute Receives Donations

The Children's Medical Research Institute's campaign to raise $30 million is about 80-percent complete after two new donations. The National Excellence Program's $30 million goal includes $15 million for childhood cancer research and $15 million for childhood diabetes research, said Kathy McCracken, executive director of the institute. The five-year campaign started in early 2003.

• The Journal Record
• February 08, 2006

• Children's Medical Research Institute in Oklahoma Plans Pediatric Chair

The Children's Medical Research Institute plans to establish a $1 million endowed chair in pediatrics to honor Harris D. Riley Jr., former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. The CMRI Harris D. Riley, Jr. M.D. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Education includes a $250,000 gift from his friends, family and the Harris D. Riley Jr. M.D. Society, an organization formed by his former students. This gift was matched by the Children's Medical Research Institute and the Children's Miracle Network.

• The Journal Record
• March 12, 2009

• National Institutes of Health, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute.

• Arkansas Business
• April 12, 2010

• Children's Medical Research Institute Searches for Staff for Childhood Cancer Research

The success of a cancer researcher recruited by the Children's Medical Research Institute has created the need for additional laboratory investigators. Children's Medical Research Institute recruited William H. Meyer, CMRI Ben Johnson Chair in Hematology and Oncology, in 1997 to join the endowed research and education programs in Oklahoma. Meyer is the professor and chief of hematology and oncology for OU Children's Physicians at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

• The Journal Record
• June 29, 2006

• Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles Discover Enzyme Essential for Healthy Lung Development.

• Business Wire
• March 29, 2011

• Oklahoma's Children's Medical Research Institute Seeks More Endowed Chairs

More endowed chairs are needed at the Children's Medical Research Institute to meet increasing demand for services, said its executive director. The institute has already provided 12 endowed chairs for the OU Medical Center, said Kathy McCracken, executive director at CMRI.

• The Journal Record
• May 08, 2006

• Children's Medical Research Institute, Chickasaws Create Diabetes Research Chair

Children's Medical Research Institute has announced a tribal partnership with the Chickasaw Nation to establish the Chickasaw Nation Endowed Research Chair in Pediatric Diabetes. We are concerned about the alarming rate at which American Indian children are developing type 2 diabetes, said Bill Anoatubby, governor of the Chickasaw Nation. Because of the high incidence rate of diabetes in American Indians and especially Chickasaws, we feel it is our duty to support medical research that may one day lead to the prevention of this devastating disease.

• The Journal Record
• August 31, 2005

• Oklahoma's Children's Medical Research Institute Receives Funds for New Chair

The Children's Medical Research Institute has received funding for a fifth $2 million chair for childhood diabetes research at the OU Health Sciences Center. Sherry and Jerry Cash provided $500,000 for the CMRI Cash Family Chair in childhood diabetes. CMRI will match the Cash family donation with another $500,000. The $1 million will be eligible for matching funds from the State Regents Endowment Program to create a $2 million endowment for pediatric diabetes research, said Sue Homsey, CMRI board chairman.

• The Journal Record
• July 12, 2007