UAMS Researcher Receives ‘Young Investigator Award’ From International Organization
| LITTLE ROCK – One of the newest faculty members at the Abdallah Hayar, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences of the UAMS College of Medicine, received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Olfaction from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS). The AChemS is an international association that advances understanding of the senses of taste and smell. The AChemS Young Investigator Award, which includes $2,000, is awarded to “an emerging leader in the field of olfaction” whose doctorate degree was received in 1995 or later. Hayar joined the UAMS faculty in January 2006. He was previously a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Hayar’s research examines how neurons connect and communicate with the brain to process information on smell. UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has about 2,320 students and 690 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 9,300 employees, including nearly 1,000 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the VA Medical Center. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in