Research
April 24, 2020
UAMS Names Time-Sensitive COVID-19 Grant Awardees
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division of Research and Innovation today announced six recipients of its Time-Sensitive COVID-19 funding awards. The one-year grants of up to $50,000 each will enable the UAMS researchers and their collaborators to launch research projects that advance understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic, contribute to better clinical practices,…
April 16, 2020
New Repository Helps Faculty Stay on Tenure Track During COVID-19
Before Arkansas had its first COVID-19 case, the reality of the impending pandemic was already setting in for UAMS faculty as cancellations for scientific conferences worldwide were announced one after another like falling dominos. For scientists and academics, presenting to their peers at conferences is one of the main ways other than publications that they…
April 8, 2020
UAMS Receives $1M Grant for Two Clinical Trials on Opioid Withdrawal in Infants
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), in collaboration with the Duke Clinical Research Institute, has received a $1 million federal grant for two clinical trials involving infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS). The increase in maternal opioid use has resulted in a rise in the number of infants born with NOWS. The…
April 6, 2020
Guest Editorial: Value of Diagnostic Testing for SARS–CoV-2/COVID-19
As we enter the second quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) increasingly available (though still limited and/or slow in some areas), we are faced with new questions and challenges regarding this novel virus. When to test? Whom to test? What to test? How often to test?…
March 30, 2020
Repository to Help with Presentations Planned for COVID-19 Canceled Meetings
As the presentation of many research faculty members’ academic work in national and regional meetings has been affected by COVID-19 cancellations, UAMS has created a Scholarly Product Repository to mitigate the problem. The repository provides a location to collect peer-reviewed and accepted abstracts, posters and other academic products and disseminate them. Not only will it…
March 9, 2020
UAMS Researchers Have COVID-19’s ‘Fingerprint’
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has the attention of biomedical researchers across the globe, including at UAMS. Researchers at the UAMS Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine (ArC-GEM) are applying their comparative genomic analysis and sequencing prowess to the disease. The ArC-GEM team has also studied the Ebola virus, Zika virus, and the mumps outbreak…
February 7, 2020
Proteomics Symposium Draws Leaders from Across the Country
To conduct biomedical research, scientists must be able to identify, analyze and compare proteins in biological samples. This complex process requires facilities – known as proteomics cores – that house the specialized equipment and highly trained staff required for such a task.
February 4, 2020
Research at UAMS Shows Potential to Reduce Chemo-related Heart Damage
A team led by UAMS cancer researcher Valentina Todorova, Ph.D., has demonstrated the potential to prevent chemotherapy-induced heart damage without reducing the treatment’s effectiveness.
January 27, 2020
Bone Research Showcased as Vibrant, Vital at UAMS
Bone health is an expanding area of research with far-reaching clinical applications — from regenerating limbs to stopping bone cancer in its tracks — and UAMS is well-situated as a leader in the field. That was the resounding theme of the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: A Focus on Bone Research, held Jan. 22 at UAMS….
January 24, 2020
UAMS Professor’s New Book Sheds Light on Neuroscience and the Law
If science isn’t about the search for absolute truth but instead the search for the best possible answer, then a UAMS professor hopes he and his late co-author have found the best answers so far to questions about neuroscience and the law. Cambridge Scholars Publishing recently released a new textbook on the subject “Fundamentals of…
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