Nancy Rusch


July 17, 2019

UAMS Translational Research Institute Launches Entrepreneurship Training Program with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

David Robinson

Astha Malhotra, Ph.D., discusses her research in 3-D printing and tissue regeneration during a kick-off meeting of the entrepreneurship training program.

A first-of-its-kind entrepreneurship training program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will teach its most promising young innovators how to move their health-science technologies into the marketplace. The UAMS Translational Research Institute kicked off the program with the announcement of its first four postdoctoral trainees in the Health Science Innovation & Entrepreneurship…


August 21, 2018

BioVentures, Boot Camp Garner National Award, Recognition

Ben Boulden

Nancy Gray, far left, gets ready to present prizes to the winning team at the Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp in May.

In less than three years, the Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp has gone from pilot project to national award winner, recently earning a second place Innovations in Research and Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. “Being able to claim the Boot Camp has won an award like this means it’s had…


May 15, 2018

BioVentures fastPace Course Helps Researchers Grasp Business Basics

Ben Boulden

Marie Burdine, Ph.D., left, makes her presentation to the judges, foreground, during the final class session of the fastPace course.

May 15, 2018 | Even a classroom full of experienced researchers with Ph.D. and medical degrees still found useful things to learn about business during the fastPace course organized by BioVentures. “We enrolled in the class because we thought we had a good idea, but we didn’t really know how to take it to the…


March 14, 2018

Boot Camp, BioVentures Propel Researcher into Award-winning Business

Ben Boulden

Rejuvenix CEO Joshua Phillips, left, Jay Gandy, Ph.D., and Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Rejuvenix Technologies chief science officer, stop outside the offices of BioVentures before meeting with BioVentures director Nancy Gray, Ph.D.

March 14, 2018 | Sometimes a motivation and an idea grounded in the academic world make the same journey and reach the same destination together. They did for Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D. in 2016. At the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp in the summer of 2016, Stolarz’s motivation to do purely academic research met up with an…


April 24, 2017

How a Governor’s Cup Win Got an Assist from the UAMS Translational Research Institute

David Robinson

Winners of the Governor’s Cup business plan competition are (l-r): team members Joshua Phillips, Tiffany Jarrett and Amanda Stolarz. They are joined by (back left) Rush Deacon, CEO, Arkansas Capital Corporation; Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Carol Reeves, team adviser, and Kevin Burns, chairman of the board, Arkansas Capital Corporation.

April 24, 2017 | UAMS’ Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., recently celebrated her team’s victory in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition. The team, Rejuvenics Technologies, won the $25,000 top prize with its idea for commercializing a drug-delivery system to reduce the harmful side effects of chemotherapy. Just under a year ago, the…


June 23, 2014

McSweeney, Rusch Named Graduate School Faculty of the Year

Liz Caldwell

The UAMS Graduate School named Jean McSweeney, Ph.D., R.N., professor and associate deanfor research in the College of Nursing, and Nancy Rusch, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, as Faculty Members of the Year.


February 25, 2013

Heart Research Points Way to Longer Lives

Ben Boulden

Feb. 25, 2013 | Cardiovascular research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) could one day lead to a test for aneurysms, an annual treatment for hypertension and a treatment for inflammation that accompanies a host of diseases.