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October 24, 2024

UAMS Chancellor’s Circle Awards Grants to 17 Programs

Andrew Vogler

Chancellor's Circle Grant Ceremony

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded 17 grants totaling $350,000 at the annual Chancellor’s Circle Grant Awards ceremony held Oct. 23 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum. The Chancellor’s Circle is UAMS’ premier annual giving society, which marks its 40th anniversary in 2024. Through its unrestricted…


October 23, 2024

UAMS’ Michael Jennings, Ph.D., Shares Words of Wisdom on Teaching, Tomatoes and More at ‘Last Lecture’

Tamara Robinson

Michael Jennings, Ph.D., the UAMS Emeritus Society’s 2024 “Last Lecture” honoree, discusses one of the “lessons” he has learned over his life and career as a scientist, educator and leader.

Michael Jennings, Ph.D., has gleaned valuable lessons about science, education, leadership and more over his lifetime and many decades as a biophysicist, faculty member and department chair. His wealth of experiences has taught him many things — including the joy of growing tomatoes.


October 21, 2024

UAMS Researchers Find Ground Beef Packs Bigger Muscle-Building Punch than Soy-Based Alternative

News Staff

Top view of a rustic wood table filled with ingredients for cooking a delicious homemade cheeseburger. An iron grill with two cooked ground beef burgers is placed at the top-right of the frame and at the opposite side is a cutting board with raw ground beef burgers while the other ingredients are scattered on the table.

LITTLE ROCK — When it comes to building muscle, not all proteins are created equal.

New research from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reveals that 100% ground beef packs a bigger punch for muscle protein synthesis than a soy-based counterpart.


October 16, 2024

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Named Center of Excellence by MDS Foundation

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Named Center of Excellence by MDS Foundation

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the MDS Foundation, making it the only center in Arkansas to become part of the foundation’s referral network of the top bone marrow disorder treatment centers in the world. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are…


October 15, 2024

UAMS Establishes Proteomics Center of Excellence in Little Rock with Thermo Fisher Scientific

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS Establishes Proteomics Center of Excellence in Little Rock with Thermo Fisher Scientific

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced the launch of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Center of Excellence for Proteomics at UAMS — the first and only academic-industry partnership of its kind in the United States. The world leader in serving science, Thermo Fisher Scientific, entered into a formal agreement with the IDeA National…


October 14, 2024

Symposium Showcases Promising Research Aimed at Reducing Cancer Therapy Side Effects

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS Cancer Researcher Amanda Stolarz. Ph.D.,

What is worse? Cancer or cancer treatment? Ask any patient treated with chemotherapy, and the answer may be the treatment. Common side effects of chemotherapy include pain, fatigue, hair loss, mouth sores, bowel issues as well as nerve, muscle, cell and organ damage. And that’s just chemotherapy. Conventional X-ray radiation, a treatment needed by half…


October 8, 2024

Marius Nagalo, Ph.D., First at UAMS to Receive NIH New Innovator Award

Marty Trieschmann

Marius Nagalo, Ph.D., (left) is the first UAMS researcher to receive the prestigious New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

LITTLE ROCK — A researcher at the Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Marius Nagalo, Ph.D., has received the prestigious New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).


October 7, 2024

Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Focuses on Historic Disparities in Health Care

Ben Boulden

Harriet Washington stands in front of the stage in Smith Auditorium while discussing the history in the U.S, of racial health disparities.

The history of U.S. health care has long ignored the impact of and on African Americans, and Harriet Washington wants to change that. On Sept. 25 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), she presented “Medical Apartheid … and Beyond” as part of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture series. Washington, an award-winning…


October 3, 2024

Schizophrenia Conference Offers Education, Optimism

Tim Taylor

Brian Kirkpatrick, M.D., discusses some of the misconceptions about schizophrenia at the Arkansas Schizophrenia Conference.

The more than 250 people who attended the Arkansas Schizophrenia Conference, hosted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Psychiatric Research Institute, left the Sept. 27 event with information about the latest treatment approaches and promising findings.


September 30, 2024

Inspiring and Empowering the Next Generation of Women Orthopaedic Surgeons

Andrew Vogler

Perry Outreach Program

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Orthopaedic Surgery welcomed female students from the College of Medicine and Arkansas high schools for the Perry Outreach Program, an annual program to teach and inspire young women to become orthopaedic surgeons. It is the 11th year that the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has hosted…



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