UAMS News
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…
August 6, 2019
UAMS Head Start Program Receives $41 Million Grant
![Head Start students enjoying a surprise donation of books, games and toys in 2018.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC_1029-150x150.jpg)
The Head Start/Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, which has been administered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Pediatrics since 1998, has received a grant of $41 million from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will be used to operate the program and is structured to…
August 5, 2019
Fellowship Program Gives Undergrads Glimpse Into Biomedical Research Careers
![Robert Eoff, Ph.D., (left) served as mentor for Hendrix College senior Madison Blue during the Arkansas INBRE Summer Research Fellowship Program at UAMS.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC_1942-150x150.jpg)
A rising college senior, Huddoy Walters’ sights are set on a career in biomedical research. “I want to be a scientist, most definitely,” said Walters, a native Jamaican and biochemistry major at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
August 2, 2019
$100,000 Estate Gift Enhances UAMS College of Medicine Scholarship
![Walker, a 1946 College of Medicine graduate, established the initial scholarship in 1994 in memory of his parents.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ambrosewalker-150x150.jpg)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $100,000 gift from the estate of Ambrose T. Walker Jr., M.D. to enhance the A.T. and Gladys Walker Memorial Scholarship in the UAMS College of Medicine. “We are profoundly grateful for the enduring generosity of the late Dr. Walker and his family,” said Christopher…
July 23, 2019
Former UAMS Physician, Renowned for Introducing Benchmark Chemotherapy, Returning to Myeloma Center
![Guido J.K. Tricot, M.D., Ph.D.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/tricot-cropped-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — Guido J.K. Tricot, M.D., Ph.D., has rejoined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and will see patients at its Myeloma Center. While at UAMS previously, Tricot developed one of the most effective first-line therapies for multiple myeloma, now used around the world. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Tricot rejoin…
July 18, 2019
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July 16, 2019
Edith Irby Jones, M.D., Trailblazing Medical Pioneer, Passes Away at 91
![Edith Irby Jones, M.D., enrolled at UAMS in 1948 as the first African American to enroll in an all-white medical school in the South.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/uw_468_full-150x150.jpg)
Edith Irby Jones, M.D., who became a pioneer when she enrolled at UAMS in 1948 as the first African American to enroll in an all-white medical school in the South, and who went on to a distinguished career as a doctor, educator and philanthropist, passed away on July 15. She was 91. “All of UAMS…
July 3, 2019
NIH Awards Five-Year, $24.2 Million Grant to UAMS Translational Research Institute
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute announced today it will receive five years of federal funding totaling $24.2 million to accelerate research that addresses Arkansas’ biggest health challenges. The Translational Research Institute helps researchers turn their ideas and findings into new medical treatments and other health interventions. Its focus is…
NIH Awards Five-Year, $24.2 Million Grant to UAMS Translational Research Institute
![UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, left, listens to Laura James, M.D., director of the UAMS Translational Research Institute after both of them announced $24.2 million in new funding for the institute.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TRI-CTSAfunding-2019-featured-150x150.jpg)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute announced today it will receive five years of federal funding totaling $24.2 million to accelerate research that addresses Arkansas’ biggest health challenges. The Translational Research Institute helps researchers turn their ideas and findings into new medical treatments and other health interventions. Its focus is…
July 1, 2019
Twins 12 Days Apart Have Month-Long Birthday Celebrations
![Villarreal Twins](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_0098-150x150.jpg)
Diana and Julio Villarreal spent many days in the spring of 2015 studying the photos that line the walls on the fifth floor at UAMS Medical Center — known as the Wall of Hope.
They were waiting on word that their twin sons, Julio and Jacob, born weeks early, were healthy enough to bring home.
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