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March 2, 2020

UAMS Receives Grant to Address Teen Pregnancy and Other Youth Health Issues

David Wise

FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently received a three-year, $960,000 grant to empower teens to make healthy decisions by providing tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and risky behavior among youths in Washington County. The Teen Outreach Program (TOP) grant is funded by the U.S. Department…


June 25, 2015

UAMS Researcher Awarded Grant to Study Lyme Disease

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK — Jon Blevins, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year grant of more than $400,000 by the National Institutes of Health to study the genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes…


June 10, 2015

UAMS-based Arkansas INBRE Receives $3.9 million to Support Biomedical Research

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), administrator of the Arkansas INBRE program promoting biomedical research across the state, has been awarded $3.9 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the program.


May 2, 2014

Researcher’s Surprise Discovery Lands $1.8 Million Grant

Liz Caldwell

A surprise discovery that could lead to new treatments for herpes viruses that infect more than 90 percent of the world’s adult population has led to a $1.8 million grant to UAMS from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).


September 5, 2013

UAMS Researcher Awarded $150,000 Grant for Pancreatic Cancer Drug Treatment Improvement

Liz Caldwell

Wolf E. Heberlein, M.D., an assistant professor of radiology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, received a two-year $150,000 Research Scholar Grant from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research and Education (R&E) Foundation.


December 7, 2012

Grants Help Physician Assistant, NW Residency Programs

Jon Parham

Dec. 7, 2012 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) planned internal medicine residency program in northwest Arkansas and new physician assistant program received grants totaling more than $200,000 from the Blue & You Foundation.


November 27, 2012

Bora Awarded $1.1 Million NIH Grant for Uveitis Research

Nate Hinkel

Nov. 27, 2012 | Nalini Bora, Ph.D., director of research for the Pat & Willard Walker Eye Research Center, was awarded a three-year, $1.1 million National Institutes of Health grant to study an inflammatory disease of the eye that causes 20 percent of all blindness.


Bora Awarded $1.1 Million NIH Grant for Eye Research

Nate Hinkel

<p class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Nalini Bora, Ph.D., director of research for the Pat & Willard Walker Eye Research Center, was awarded a three-year, $1.1 million National Institutes of Health grant to study an inflammatory disease of the eye that causes 20 percent of all blindness.</p>


October 16, 2012

UAMS Researcher Awarded $1.6 Million Grant to Train Therapists to Treat Young Trauma Victims

Nate Hinkel

<p class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Better care and more effective services for young children exposed to trauma will be available through a $1.6 million federal grant awarded Oct. 1 to a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher.</p>


September 11, 2012

UAMS Receives $180,000 for Teacher Health Education

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Professional development for Arkansas’ pre-K-12 teachers will be provided through three grants totaling more than $180,000 to a unique statewide outreach program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). </span>



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