UAMS College of Medicine Doubles Research Funding in Four Years
| style="text-align: left;">LITTLE ROCK – The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has doubled its scientific research funding from the federal National Institutes of Health in the last four years, going from $19.9 million in annual funding in Fiscal Year 1999 to $39.6 million in Fiscal Year 2002.
“It’s an exciting time to be at UAMS,” Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., commented.
Physicians and scientists at UAMS study a wide variety of health problems. In the College of Medicine, the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics ranks in the top fourth for NIH funding, while the Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry, Medicine, and Biochemistry all moved up.
UAMS is the principal institution for health sciences research in Arkansas. Its affiliate, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, received $3 million in NIH funding in FY 2002. The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, received $4.9 million in NIH funding during the same period.