Myeloma Center
March 17, 2020
UAMS Scientists Awarded Grants for Cancer Research
![Seeds of Science grant recipients](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Seeds-of-Science-recipients-2020-reduced-150x150.jpg)
Newly awarded grants are advancing research efforts at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Three Seeds of Science small grant awards of $50,000 each were presented March 5 to UAMS cancer researchers at “The Doctor is in” event hosted by the Envoys volunteer advocacy group.
March 2, 2020
Arkansan’s Golf Swing Breaks Back, Leads to Myeloma Diagnosis
!["When you get a diagnosis like that, your world crumbles and you don't know what to expect," said Buffy Bennett, the wife of myeloma patient Wade Bennett of Hackett, Arkansas.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Bennett-Wade-horiz.-reduced-for-web-3-150x150.jpg)
In 2017, Wade Bennett of Hackett, Arkansas, was 50, and physically active, both in his work as the owner of his company, WB Drywall, and in his leisure time. He also thought he was in good health. “I had a golf tournament coming up and I was swinging an eight iron in my yard and…
February 3, 2020
Fenghuang (Frank) Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., Joins UAMS Myeloma Center
![Zhan Fenghuang MD](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Zhan-Fenghuang_MD-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — Myeloma expert Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as research director of the Myeloma Center. Zhan was most recently a professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and an adjunct professor with the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics….
January 14, 2020
Grateful Cancer Patient Pedals to Promote Myeloma Center
![David Sutton of St. Petersburg, Florida, recently completed a five-day bike ride to raise $7,000 for the Myeloma Center.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sutton-David-2MB-150x150.jpg)
David Sutton of St. Petersburg, Florida, was 42 and had an 18-month-old son when, on New Year’s Eve of 2004, he was diagnosed with myeloma and given a bleak prognosis from a cancer treatment center near his home. In response, his local oncologist sent him to the UAMS Myeloma Center for a second opinion. “I…
November 12, 2019
Drag Racer, Specialty Mechanic Praises Treatment at Myeloma Center
!["I was determined to find the best place I could go for treatment," said drag racer and specialty mechanic Brian Macy, 49, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, pictured here with wife Heather.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Macy-Brian-102019-original-150x150.jpg)
Drag racer and specialty mechanic Brian Macy, 49,was diagnosed with myeloma in June 2016. Just a little more than a year later, he was back on track, literally. Macy, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, owns Horsepower Connection, an automotive customization shop that specializes in electronic fuel injection programming and conversions of older domestic cars and…
November 5, 2019
International Myeloma Foundation Partners with UAMS for Regional Workshop
![Carolina Schinke, M.D., of the Myeloma Center and Kelly Cox with the International Myeloma Foundation took part in the recent regional workshop for patients in Little Rock.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG-Schinke-Cox-1-MB-reduced-for-WEB-150x150.jpg)
UAMS Myeloma Center patients, caregivers and staff from across Arkansas and surrounding states spent a recent Saturday learning more about myeloma, a rare blood disease, and how to live successfully with it. “Knowledge truly is power,” said Kelly Cox, of the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), in welcoming the crowd of nearly 60 attendees to the…
September 23, 2019
Little Rock Volunteer Uses Love of Knitting to Give to UAMS Cancer Patients
![“I knew there was a need so I began by making 50 or more hats a year,” said Ferren, 54, a former elementary school teacher who is legally blind.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ferren-Carolaina-cropped-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Carolaina Ferren uses her knitting needles, crochet hooks, and bundles of yarn to share her empathy with those who are battling cancer. “I knew there was a need so I began by making 50 or more hats a year,” said Ferren, 54, a former elementary school teacher who is legally blind. “A lot of knitting…
September 13, 2019
Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., Named UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Director
![Michael Birrer](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Birrer_Michael-MD-PhD-web-150x150.jpg)
Internationally recognized medical oncologist Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., has been named vice chancellor and director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Birrer specializes in gynecologic cancers and will join the university by the end of the year.
August 22, 2019
Woman Resumes Humanitarian Trips to China after Myeloma Treatment
![Myeloma patient Cindy Sites of Springfield, Missouri, and her husband, Doug, credit her physicians at UAMS with extending her life and allowing her to see her first grandchild.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sites-Cynthia-and-Doug-07022019-resized-for-web-story-150x150.jpg)
Cindy Sites loves sharing the gift of music with others. Whenever she visits the Myeloma Center in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, she likes playing the Steinway grand piano in the lobby. “I usually play for an hour or so in between my tests or while waiting for my appointments,” Sites, 57, said….
August 8, 2019
UAMS Myeloma Researcher Awarded Nearly $543,000 from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
![UAMS Myeloma Researcher Awarded Nearly $543,000 from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WalkerBrian-reduced-for-web-1-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — Brian Walker, Ph.D., with the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $542,486, three-year grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to look at changes in the DNA sequence that effects the development and advancement of multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the…
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