Fall 2007 Inventors

James F. McGinnis

James F. McGinnis received his Bachelor of Science in biology and chemistry from Siena College and Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo.  After his postdoctoral training in molecular neurobiology at UCLA, he obtained Professorial appointments in the Departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry. 

McGinnis came to Oklahoma in 1997 as a Professor in the Departments of Cell Biology and Ophthalmology at Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center with his laboratory at the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute.

McGinnis’s research program is focused on retinal function.  A major project focus in his lab is the characterization and use of catalytic antioxidant inorganic nanoparticles to prevent oxidative stress-induced neuronal cell death in mammalian retinas and brains. His research is currently supported by NIH, NSF, OCAST and private foundations.

Ken Miller

Dr. Ken Miller graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1978. After receiving his diploma he went on to earn his Ph. D. in Anatomy & Neurobiology at the University of Vermont in 1984, and took a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology in Neuroanatomy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Dr. Miller has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences, as well as the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, OK. In 2002, he joined Oklahoma State University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the Center for Health Sciences.

Miller has served on several Neuroscience committees, including a tenure as President of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience from 1991-93. He also sat on the Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience from 1991-93, and again from 2002-2005.

His ongoing research focuses on Glutamate in primary afferents following inflammation.

Edgar O'Rear III

Edgar A. O’Rear is the Francis W. Winn Professor of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and director of the OU Bioengineering Center.

His principal areas of research are surfactant science and biomedical engineering. In the field of surfactants, O’Rear focuses on modifying the surfaces of commercially important materials and exploring the technique as a means of forming unusual polymers. His biomedical engineering work involves investigating the dissolution of blood clots by plasminogen activators, which is important in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular disorders.

O’Rear has served as a program administrator at the National Science Foundation, taught multiple times at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and conducted research at The Institute for Physical and Chemical Research and Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, both in Japan. He holds a doctorate from Rice University.

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