Fund raiser and new website

January 14, 2003

Dear List,

First off, thank you Mr. for your permission to post to the

group.

My name is Alan Shields, and I work for Dr. Centola at the

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, where our research is in

inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis being one of the beneficiaries of our

research.

We work with a non-profit organization named FAIR

(www.fundresearch.org), which funds arthritis/inflammation research.

FAIR will be doing a fund raiser in LA on February 16th. It will be a

walk/run. We'd like to get the word out to people who would be

interested in participating or donating.

Also, FAIR will be expanding their website operations (read: *I* will

be expanding the website for FAIR), and we are going to have interviews

with several of our funded scientists, and we are going to start up a

Wiki (a public information repository, edited by the users and by some

of our people). That is, we will be doing this if there is interest. We

would like to know if people would consider this to be a good resource.

A bit more information about FAIR: FAIR funds medical research

at research hospitals (or affiliated with research hospitals, as we are).

Our scientists are published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Clinical

and Expirimental Immunology, Physiological Genomics, and several others.

Here's a link to one of FAIR's scientist's most recent publications, if

you're interested:

2519387 & dopt=Abstract

FAIR is one of the very few charities that only supports research.

If you would like to contact me, my email address is

Alan-Shields@.... I will try to answer anything that gets sent

my way, or will forward it on to someone who can.

Thank you for your time,

Alan Shields

Systems Administrator

Arthritis/Immunology

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

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