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February 15, 2019
Public Invited to Learn About, Sign Up for Historic Research Volunteer Program at UAMS
NOTE: This release has been updated to reflect a change in the All of Us Exhibit and Enrollment Center schedule at UAMS. The traveling exhibit/center will be on the UAMS Little Rock campus through Friday, March 8, not Saturday, as previously planned. LITTLE ROCK — The public is invited to the traveling National Institutes of…
January 24, 2019
Researcher Asks Why Some Abandon Treatment for Prescription Opioid Addiction
It would seem counterintuitive for a patient to undergo weeks of treatment, then at a critical moment abandon it and potentially succumb to disease. Yet, many people battling opioid addiction go through exactly that pattern of progress and relapse, oftentimes more than once. Patricia Wright, Ph.D., RN, an assistant professor and researcher in the UAMS…
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…
March 27, 2018
New Opioid Studies Led by UAMS Researchers and Collaborating Sites
March 27, 2018 | Funding for two inter-institutional pilot studies looking at opioid abuse was recently announced by the UAMS Translational Research Institute. One study seeks to address opioid use disorders in pregnant women. “The study will harmonize data collection utilizing an iPad-based data collection tool with input from providers and patients,” said Jessica L. Coker,…
December 12, 2017
UAMS Research Grants Surge 53 Percent to $170.6 Million in Fiscal Year 2017
Dec. 12, 2017 | Research funding at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) grew 53 percent during the last fiscal year, contributing to the Arkansas economy and bringing the potential to grow new businesses. From $111.6 million in fiscal year 2016 to $170.6 million in fiscal year 2017, which ended June 30, the…
October 23, 2017
$1.8 Million Research Project Grant Marks Third Concurrent NIH Award for UAMS Scientist
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…
October 11, 2017
UAMS Translational Research Institute Receives $3.5 Million to Help Speed Discovery
Oct. 11, 2017 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute has received funding for a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) totaling $3,497,558 through Aug. 31, 2018. The 11 months of funding comes from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It will enable UAMS to continue its…
September 5, 2017
UAMS Center Helps Secure More than $100 Million in Research Funding
Sept. 5, 2017 | A nationally funded research center that was created to help the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) grow its research enterprise has helped UAMS researchers successfully compete for grants totaling more than $100 million in just 13 years. UAMS is reaping the rewards of its first Center of Biomedical Research Excellence…
March 30, 2017
UAMS Cancer Researcher Awarded $1.7 Million NIH Grant to Study Prevention of Radiation-Induced Cancer
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.
October 5, 2016
UAMS’ Sue Griffin, Ph.D., Awarded $10 Million by NIH for Alzheimer’s Research
Oct. 5, 2016 | Sue Griffin, Ph.D., an internationally known Alzheimer’s disease researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), leads a team that has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the causes and possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Griffin said the research team…
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