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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…

October 25, 2017

Four UAMS Early Career Faculty Receive Research Awards

David Robinson

Top (l-r), Lisa Brents and Carolina Schinke; bottom, Rosemary Nabaweesi and Sufna John

Oct. 25, 2017 | Four early career UAMS researchers were recently selected to receive KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Scholar Awards. The KL2 Scholar program at the UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI) provides two years of research training to junior faculty. It provides 75 percent salary support and up to $25,000 per year for research,…

September 6, 2013

Two New UAMS Researchers Win Funding for Asthma, Cardiovascular Studies

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – Two University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers, Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Elvin Price, Pharm.D., Ph.D., are the newest recipients of the UAMS Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholar Career Development Awards, which will provide them with salary and research support for two years.