Research
April 24, 2026
Myeloma Center Research Director Invested into Endowed Chair
Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., research director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is the initial holder of the Dr. Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research. Zhan, a tenured professor of medicine whose research focuses on identifying treatment approaches to overcome drug resistance…
April 22, 2026
TRIumph Program Uses Communication to Connect Science to Community
Many people fear public speaking and rightly so. You’re on stage, out there in the spotlight, facing an audience filled with unknown faces and trying to connect through a story, while not misspeaking, boring the room to sleep, or freezing. For researchers talking to a lay audience, the challenge is magnified. The dread of public…
September 3, 2025
NIH Awards Nearly $5.8 Million to UAMS to Continue Groundbreaking Research on Cancer Treatment Side Effects
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a five-year nearly $5.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue research into the often overlooked side effects of cancer therapies, including radiation and chemotherapy. The $5,737,500 grant awarded by the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds Phase 3…
August 27, 2025
UAMS Graduate Student First in State to Earn Competitive National Cancer Institute Award
Reham Sewilam, a Ph.D. student in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School and a trainee of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, has become the first graduate student in Arkansas to receive the highly competitive National Cancer Institute (NCI) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award. The six-year fellowship, totaling $500,776,…
July 7, 2025
OnCore Clinical Trials System is Live
The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute launched July 1 the Advarra OnCore Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS), a powerful new platform that will enhance cancer clinical trials oversight and support cutting-edge research across UAMS.
June 26, 2025
College Students Explore Cancer Research at Arkansas INBRE Workshop
Undergraduates from 14 schools across the country had the opportunity to explore the field of cancer research at a UAMS workshop sponsored by the Arkansas INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence). Held May 28 in the UAMS Library, the “Bench to Bedside: Breakthroughs in Cancer Research and Therapy Workshop” attracted nearly 30 students interested in…
June 5, 2025
Arkansas’ Leading Cancer Researchers Gather at Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Retreat
In a strong showing as the state’s leader in cancer research, the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its annual research retreat May 7 for scientists across the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Held at the Robinson Center Grand Ballroom in downtown Little Rock, the daylong event served as an opportunity for researchers…
April 22, 2025
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Scientists Uncover New Opportunities for Targeted Cancer Therapies
Molecular Cell publishes UAMS comprehensive structural biology study of MCL-1:BAK complex found in most cancers A research team led by UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute scientist, Tudor Moldoveanu, Ph.D., has uncovered novel insights into one of the body’s most fundamental processes impacting the development of cancer. Known as apoptosis, the research on the process…
March 31, 2025
NIH Awards UAMS Nearly $3 Million to Study DNA Structures that Could Impact Cancer Treatment
LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Kevin Raney, Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year, $2.99 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study unusual DNA structures called quadruplexes, which may act like natural drugs by binding to key proteins involved in disease. The grant from the NIH…
March 6, 2025
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Scientist Awarded $1.9 Million to Study Air Pollution, Breast Cancer
A researcher at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the role of environmental exposures in the development of early onset breast cancer in Arkansas women. Ping-Ching Hsu, Ph.D., an…
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