business


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 22, 2011

UAMS Startup Wins Top-Three Finish in Harvard Competition

David Robinson

June 22, 2011 | A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures startup, PhytoTEK, recently earned a top-three finish in a prestigious Harvard business plan competition.