IDeA
May 31, 2018
UAMS Gives Students Close-Up of Opioids Treatment, Research
May 31, 2018 | As 19 Arkansas undergraduate students listened quietly, the 20-year-old opioid addict, sitting a few feet away, talked with a UAMS psychiatrist and then a UAMS psychologist about her failed attempts to quit using. The messy addiction story of “Lynn,” with treatment medications she dislikes and friends who enjoy using drugs, highlighted…
May 23, 2018
UAMS Professor Offers Insights into Criminal Intent, Co-Authors Law Review Article
May 23, 2018 | A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) professor of neurobiology recently co-authored a Kentucky Law Review article that offers insights into the nature of criminal intent and urges the court system to admit more expert testimony into trials regarding the subject. In “Actus Reus, Mens Rea, and Brain Science: What…
August 2, 2016
Hill at UAMS to See Trauma Care Operations
Aug. 2, 2016 | As U.S. Rep. French Hill walked into the UAMS Medical Center’s Emergency Department, a trauma patient arrived on a gurney after transport there by helicopter. Secured to the gurney and bandaged, the patient was wheeled into an examination room. Hill was there to witness firsthand the operation of the state’s only…
June 26, 2015
UAMS-based Arkansas INBRE Receives $3.9 million for Biomedical Research
June 26, 2015 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), administrator of the Arkansas INBRE program promoting biomedical research across the state, Lawrence Cornett, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research, and Helen Benes, Ph.D., associate director of the Arkansas INBRE.has been awarded $3.9 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the program.
December 10, 2013
UAMS Hosts Researchers From Several States
Dec. 10, 2013 | Scientific researchers shared their findings with each other at the UAMS-hosted 2013 Southeast Regional IDeA meeting in mid-November at the Little Rock Marriott while learning about a new funding opportunity to commercialize their discoveries.