Daohong Zhou


December 28, 2017

UAMS Sees Changes in Patient Care, Education, Research in 2017

Ben Boulden

Dec. 28, 2017 | For UAMS, 2017 was a year of leadership changes and opening new buildings, of grants awarded for research and awards granted in recognition and praise. In late December that University of Arkansas System President Donald R. Bobbit will recommend to the UA Board of Trustees that Cam Patterson, M.D., be the…


October 23, 2017

$1.8 Million Research Project Grant Marks Third Concurrent NIH Award for UAMS Scientist

Susan Van Dusen

LITTLE ROCK – A scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has reached a status few achieve by being awarded his third concurrent R01-type Research Project Grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Daohong Zhou, M.D., received the $1.8 million grant to support his research on a therapy to prevent and…


March 30, 2017

UAMS Cancer Researcher Awarded $1.7 Million NIH Grant to Study Prevention of Radiation-Induced Cancer

Susan Van Dusen

Daohong Zhou, M.D.

A $1.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher to study a potential new therapy to reduce the risk of blood cancer caused by ionizing radiation.


January 17, 2017

Study Shows Chemotherapy Induces Cellular Aging, Which Promotes Side Effects, Cancer Relapse

Ben Boulden

Jan. 17, 2017 | Chemotherapy for cancer causes a pro-inflammatory stress response that promotes adverse side effects and cancer relapse, says a research team that includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Daohong Zhou, M.D., associate director for basic research in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, is a co-author of the study…


September 8, 2016

UAMS Researchers David Ussery, Hong-yu Li Named ARA Scholars

Ben Boulden

Sept. 8, 2016 | UAMS biomedical informatics researcher David Ussery, Ph.D., and UAMS cancer treatment researcher Hong-yu Li, Ph.D., were named Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholars at a news conference today at the State Capitol. Ussery and Li each were presented with a certificate by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, ARA Board of Trustees Chair Sonja Hubbard…


December 14, 2015

UAMS Research Published in Nature Medicine

Ben Boulden

Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and other institutions are reporting the discovery of the first broad spectrum drug that can potently kill senescent (or aging) cells in culture and effectively clear the cells in animals by specifically targeting a pathway that is critical for the survival of senescent cells. Findings…


August 12, 2015

UAMS Researchers Awarded $10.5 Million to Establish Center

Ben Boulden

UAMS researchers, led by Martin Hauer-Jensen, M.D., have secured a $10.5 million grant to establish a center to study side effects of cancer therapy.


UAMS Researchers Awarded $10.5 Million Grant to Establish Center for Study of Cancer-Therapy Toxicity

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – A team of UAMS researchers has secured a $10.5 million grant to establish a center to study side effects of of cancer therapy.


August 27, 2014

UAMS Myeloma Institute Director Gareth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D., Named ARA Scholar

Ben Boulden

Aug. 27, 2014 | Gareth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University of Arkansas  for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, was named an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholar at a news conference today at the State Capitol.