Min Li, Ph.D., a George Lynn Cross Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Cell Biology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director for Global Oncology at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, will receive the 2024 Palade Prize from the International Association of Pancreatology.

OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center has received a $10 million gift from Jim Norton, his late wife Ronda, and their daughters, Christy Trussell and Leslie Croteau, to support its expansion to the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa.

Jonas Nursing, a leading supporter of doctoral nursing education in the U.S., and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, announced that Caitlin Dressler and Catherine Harris, B.S.-Ph.D. students in the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma, have been selected as Jonas Scholars for the program’s current cohort. This program aims to improve health care by expanding the pool of doctoral and Doctor of Nursing Practice-prepared nurses needed to educate the next generation of nurse leaders

Raid Aljumaily, M.D., an associate professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, is the national co-leader of the PROSPECT-Lung clinical trial that will evaluate the timing of immunotherapy for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer.

Recently published research from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa shows that a new therapy for children with chronic nightmares reduced the number of nightmares and the distress they caused and increased the number of nights a child slept without waking. The study, published in Frontiers in Sleep, is thought to be the first randomized clinical trial to test a nightmare therapy in children, and it marks a step toward treating nightmares as a distinct disorder and not solely a symptom of another mental health issue.