UAMS’ Griffin Named to Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

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LITTLE ROCK – Sue Griffin, Ph.D., professor and vice chairman of the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.


 


Griffin is highly recognized as a pioneer in Alzheimer research for her seminal discovery of the role of neuroinflammatory cytokines in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Her research created a sea change in scientific theories on Alzheimer pathogenesis.


 


She is a founding member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council at the Alzheimer’s Association, a member of the Board of the Oklahoma-Arkansas Alzheimer’s Association and a member of the Advisory Council at Winrock International. 


 


Griffin is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroinflammation and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology and the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences. She received her doctorate in physiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, N.Y.


 


The primary mission of the Dana Alliance is to advance public education about the progress and benefits of brain research and to disseminate information on the brain in an understandable and accessible fashion.


 


UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, six centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has 2,538 students and 733 medical residents. Its centers of excellence include the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is one of the state’s largest public employers with about 9,600 employees, including nearly 1,000 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $5 billion a year. For more information, visit www.uams.edu.