News & Events

The Annual COBRE EAC Meeting took place on October 4, 2024, at the University of Oklahoma’s south research campus. Nearly 40 participants attended, including OUHSC Vice President, OU Associate Vice President, and External Members of EAC advisory committee, Faculty, Staff, and Students from various departments such as the OU Health Sciences Center,  OU School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and OU Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, both in person and via Zoom.

Annual COBRE EAC Meeting 2024 Agenda            Event Photoes 

• We’re thrilled to announce another exciting funding opportunity!  The Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research plan to submit a competitive renewal COBRE Phase 2 grant application in May 2025, with the goal of further enhancing local research capabilities in Medical Imaging and Translational Cancer Research. In accordance with NIH COBRE guidelines, we intend to select 4-5 new Research Project Leaders (RPLs) for our competitive renewal COBRE Phase 2 grant application. Each RPL will propose a research project that aligns with the COBRE common research theme. 
• Full-time faculty members from any academic unit on the OU Norman and OUHSC campuses are eligible to apply by meeting the detailed criteria. The application submission deadline is November 15, 2024.

Please find the attached flyer and website link for detailed information:   

• COBRE Cancer Imaging - Call for RPL Applications - 2025 (PDF)
• Website Link

• We have exciting news about a funding opportunity! The Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research (NIH - P20GM135009) is inviting applications for Pilot Project Grants. This program aims to provide seed funding to help researchers test new hypotheses and generate preliminary data for future extramural research grant applications.
• Proposals should align with the central research theme of this COBRE, which focuses on translational biomedical imaging science research aimed at improving cancer detection, diagnosis accuracy, or treatment efficacy. This can be achieved by developing and/or applying novel medical imaging techniques (e.g., new investigative imaging systems/tools or procedures) or quantitative imaging markers (e.g., generated using advanced machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithms). All types of studies using retrospective human subject image data, vertebrate animal models, cancer cell line models, and/or dedicated imaging phantoms are accepted.
  
• Full-time faculty members from any academic unit on the OU Norman and OUHSC campuses are eligible to apply by meeting the detailed criteria. The application submission deadline is November 15, 2024, and the anticipated project start date is January 1, 2025. Pilot Projects will be awarded at a level of $60,000 in direct costs per year, with each award lasting one year (12 months).

Please find the attached flyer for detailed information:

• COBRE Pilot Project Grant 2025 (PDF)
• Website Link

• COBRE Cancer Imaging would like to invite Dr. Michael Machiorlatti, Biostatistician and Assistant Professor in both the Hudson College of Public Health and the Dodge College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), OUHSC, to give us a biostatistics roundtable discussion.

Day/Time: October 02, 2024; Between 2:30-3:30PM

Venue: SRTC 1020 (BR), 101 David L. Boren Blvd. Norman, OK 73019

Dr. Fung, Dr. Qiu and Dr Yuan shared and talked their research hypothesis, the experiments and data being collected and statistical and other data analysis methods being considered with Dr. Machiorlatti on the roundtable discussion.

• MITDC Shared Equipment Demonstration: Introduction of Raman Spectroscopy and the Zolix RTS2 Dual Laser Confocal Raman Microscopy/Spectroscopy System

Presented: Dr. Binbin Weng

Day/Time: September 19, 2024, Between 11:00AM-12:00PM

Venue: Devon Energy Hall, Rm 420, 110 W. Boyd St, OU, Norman, OK 73019

      Demonstration Flyer                    Event Photoes

• COBRE Cancer Imaging would like to invite Dr. Michael Machiorlatti, Biostatistician and Assistant Professor in both the Hudson College of Public Health and the Dodge College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), OUHSC, to give us a biostatistics lecture and roundtable discussion.

Day/Time: August 28, 2024; Between 2:30-3:30PM

Venue: SRTC 1020 (BR), 101 David L. Boren Blvd. Norman, OK 73019

Dr. Machiorlatti current research interest includes longitudinal imputation procedures, data analysis in cancer studies focusing on hematological conditions. We discuss questions about statistics, machine learning, and other statistical tools and resources with Dr. Machiorlatti.

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• MITDC Shared Equipment Demonstration: NIRScout X Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy System

Presented by Dr. Han Yuan and Lab Member

Day/Time: August 9, 2024, from 1:00-2:00 PM,

Venue: Two Partners Place, Room 126, OU, 3100 Monitor Ave. Norman, OK 73019. 

Demonstration Flyer                  Event Photoes

• MITDC Shared Equipment Demonstration: Vevo F2 Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging System 

Presented by Dr. Qinggong Tang and Lab

Day/Time: July 19, 2024; between 2pm- 4pm. 

Venue: 423 Gallogly Hall, 173 Felgar St., Norman, OK 73019

Demonstration Flyer                       Event Photoes

• MITDC Shared Equipment Demonstration: Dell Precision 7960 Deep Learning (DL) Workstation

Presented by Dr. Yuchen Qiu and Lab

Day/Time: July 12, 2024; Between 1:30-3:30PM

Venue: SRTC 1020 (BR), 101 David L. Boren Blvd. Norman, OK 73019

Demonstration Flyer                Event  Photoes

• MITDC Shared Equipment Demonstration: Andor BC43 Benchtop Spinning Disk Inverted Confocal Microscope 

Presented by Dr. Stefan Wilhelm and Lab

Day / Time: July 05, 2024 / Between 1:00-2:00PM

Venue: Gallogly Hall, Rm 325, 173 Felgar St., Norman, OK 73019

Demonstration Flyer                      Event Photoes

Biostatistics Lecture Series:

Lecture 7: Resampling
Presented by Dr. Kai Ding 

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUHSC

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Biostatistics Lecture Series:

Lecture 6 -  Introduction to Classification Methods 
Presented by Dr. Chao Xu

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUHSC

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Biostatistics Lecture Series:

Lecture 5 - Foundations of Simple and Multiple Linear Regression
Presented by Dr. Lance Ford (Left OU in fall of 2023)

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUHSC 

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Biostatistics Lecture Series:

Lecture 2 - Foundations of Basic Sample Size Calculations 
Presented by Dr. Lance Ford 

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUHSC 

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Biostatistics Lecture Series:
Lecture 1 - Foundations and Basics of Statistical Tests and Data Analysis 

Presented by Dr. Lance Ford

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUHSC

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