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October 24, 2024
UAMS Chancellor’s Circle Awards Grants to 17 Programs
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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