OMRF awarded $3.1 million to study diabetic heart disease

OKLAHOMA CITY — The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist $3.1 million to investigate a possible cause of heart disease among people with diabetes. Chi Fung Lee, Ph.D., will use the fiveyear grant to better understand how obesity and diabetes contribute to cardiomyopathy, which is an abnormal weakening of the heart muscle. ...