Cancer Researcher Joins College of Pharmacy
| LITTLE ROCK – Daohong Zhou, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a professor in the Division of Radiation Health of the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Zhou’s research focuses on radiation biology and normal tissue response to cancer therapy. He is one of two celebrated researchers the Arkansas Research Alliance announced as its inaugural ARA Scholars, which includes $500,000 of funding for him and his team.
The ARA was formed in 2007 with funds appropriated by the state Legislature and authorized by the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, and aims to strengthen economic development in the state by championing university-based research and innovation in defined strategic focus areas.
Zhou previously served as a professor of pathology and an adjunct professor of radiation oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Since 2007, he has served as director of the Flow Cytometry Facility at Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC.
He is a graduate of Yunyang Medical College in Hubei, China, and completed his internship at the college’s Affiliated Hospital and postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Zhou is the principal investigator for three Research Project Grants (RO1s) and two American Recovery and Reinvestment Act administrative supplement grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling almost $4 million to examine radiation-induced injury to bone marrow.
He is a charter member of the NIH Radiation Therapeutics and Biology Study Section and a member of the International Society of Stem Cell Research, the American Society of Hematology, the International Society of Experimental Hematology and the Radiation Research Society.
UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: 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. UAMS has 2,775 students and 748 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 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. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com.