OMRF scientist awarded $1 million to study muscle loss

A new five-year National Institutes of Health grant will help an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist study muscle loss.With the $1,017,000 grant, Jordan Fuqua, Ph.D., hopes to better understand the normal muscle loss that occurs with aging and the accelerated atrophy that follows hospitalization or prolonged bedrest in older people.Ultimately, he hopes to find new thera...