Arkansas Research Alliance
April 6, 2021
UAMS Researchers Named Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar, Fellow
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) announced today that two researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will be joining their ranks.
February 24, 2017
David W. Ussery, Ph.D., Invested in Inaugural Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics
Feb. 24, 2017 | David W. Ussery, Ph.D., director of the Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Feb. 21 as the inaugural recipient of the Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics. Ussery, who has worked with bacterial genomics since…
September 19, 2016
UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn Announces Retirement
Sept. 19, 2016 | Dan W. Rahn, M.D., chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) since 2009, announced today that he plans to retire effective July 31, 2017. During Rahn’s tenure at UAMS, the state’s only academic health sciences university and largest public employer, has undergone a significant transformation, expanding educational, clinical…
September 8, 2016
UAMS Researchers David Ussery, Hong-yu Li Named ARA Scholars
Sept. 8, 2016 | UAMS biomedical informatics researcher David Ussery, Ph.D., and UAMS cancer treatment researcher Hong-yu Li, Ph.D., were named Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholars at a news conference today at the State Capitol. Ussery and Li each were presented with a certificate by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, ARA Board of Trustees Chair Sonja Hubbard…
May 16, 2016
Hong-Yu Li, Ph.D., Named ARA Scholar, Awarded Adams Chair
May 16, 2016 | Hong-yu Li, Ph. D., a professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was named an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholar at a news conference today at the Governor’s Mansion. In a ceremony following the conference, he also was named to the Helen…
December 11, 2015
Michael Owens, Ph.D., Named Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow
Dec. 11, 2015 | The Arkansas Research Alliance named UAMS’ Michael Owens, Ph.D., an ARA Fellow during a news conference Dec. 10 at the state Capitol. Owens, who has spent more than 30 years researching the development of medicines to treat drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine, was one of five Fellows presented by Gov. Asa Hutchinson….
December 3, 2014
UAMS’ Laura James, M.D., Named Inaugural Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow
Dec. 3, 2014 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) – Laura James, M.D., was announced today as an inaugural fellow of the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) during a news conference at the state Capitol.
August 27, 2014
UAMS Myeloma Institute Director Gareth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D., Named ARA Scholar
Aug. 27, 2014 | Gareth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, was named an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholar at a news conference today at the State Capitol.
August 24, 2011
UAMS College of Pharmacy Researcher Named ARA Scholar
Aug. 24, 2011 | Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe today hailed the addition of a world-renowned researcher to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy as, “a key asset to the state’s forward-moving economic development goals.”