Chamber member, UnitedHealthcare has named Mallory Van Horn as its new CEO for the community and state health plan for Oklahoma.
The City of Oklahoma City is offering potential panhandlers A Better Way, in partnership with Mental Health Association Oklahoma, United Way of Central Oklahoma, Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and local community members.
Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Executive Vice President Jeff Seymour was in Washington, D.C., this morning attending an invitation-only biotechnology summit at the White House. The event launched a new initiative designed to ensure America’s place in the world of biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
The San Diego Convention Center was booming with wall-to-wall activity last month as thousands of bioscience professionals converged for the 2022 Biotechnology Innovation Organization International Convention (BIO). Among them was a large contingent from Oklahoma who joined forces as part of the Oklahoma Biosciences Association (OKBio) exhibitor booth.
OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center has announced a historic first for the campus and the state: A new cancer drug, called OK-1, which was conceived and created by an OU College of Medicine researcher and developed entirely in Oklahoma, without the support of a pharmaceutical company, is being tested in humans for the first time in a Phase 1 clinical trial.
This final edition of the 2022 Greater OKC Chamber Business Advocate encompasses major actions that occurred on Chamber priority issues.
Oklahoma City recently got a quick visit from a high-ranking EDA official on mission to find out more about a regional plan to expand the region’s bioscience industry. The visit was made in response to a $500,000 planning grant the EDA awarded OKC last fall as part of its Build Back Better Regional Challenge grant competition.
The 2022 Regular Session of the Oklahoma Legislature has officially ended, and officials with the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber indicated state lawmakers did an outstanding job looking out for the business community.
