Ling Gao

October 15, 2015

Cancer Researcher Published in New England Journal of Medicine

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – Identifying a patient’s genetic mutation led University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) physician-researcher Ling Gao, M.D., Ph.D., to an existing drug that eliminated the patient’s stage IV Merkel-cell carcinoma. Gao’s findings, made in collaboration with two other UAMS researchers, were published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. Metastatic Merkel-cell…

February 12, 2014

Three Grants Presented for Cancer-Related Research

Ben Boulden

Feb. 12, 2014 | Newly awarded grants will expand research at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

January 3, 2013

Two Decade Search Ends with Answers at UAMS

Ben Boulden

Jan. 3, 2013| As any new mom would, Maria Borja worried when her 3-month-old son, Brian, developed chills, a rash and a high fever. She took him to a series of doctors in nearby Texarkana and Little Rock, but all were unable to determine the cause.