UAMS News
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…
July 1, 2019
Twins 12 Days Apart Have Month-Long Birthday Celebrations
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.
Cross-Country Cyclists Stop by UAMS Cancer Institute to Promote Research and Fundraising
Nearly 30 students from The University of Texas at Austin in Texas, riding bikes from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska, were greeted by cheers recently when they stopped by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. The students, part of the 2019 Texas 4000 for Cancer, the longest annual charity bike ride in the world, began…
June 20, 2019
UAMS Researcher Awarded $1.75 Million Grant to Study New Therapies for Metastatic Melanoma
Alan Tackett, Ph.D., a cancer researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has received a five-year $1.75 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to identify new tumor targets in the treatment of metastatic melanoma.
June 17, 2019
New Spinal Surgery Gets Pulaski County Man Back on His Feet
Six months after a fall left him severely injured, Dewey Raper, 65, was not healing as quickly as he thought he would. “I spent so much time in a wheelchair, a walker and on crutches,” Raper said. “Eventually, I got an MRI. Dr. Radvany viewed it and took the case over.” Martin Radvany, M.D., is…
June 14, 2019
June 25 Science Café — ‘50 Years of NASA Glory’
Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, 50 Years of NASA Glory, on June 25. Panelists will discuss NASA’s 50-year history, including the space shuttles and space station, working at NASA-Johnson Space Center, science and engineering spinoffs, and the importance of future…
June 6, 2019
Researcher Receives Grant to Continue Work on High Blood Pressure as Immune Disorder
A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher who is seeking an explanation for why millions of people worldwide do not respond to the current available treatments for high blood pressure has received $1.89 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue this groundbreaking work. Shengyu Mu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department…
June 4, 2019
UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, Invested in Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair
Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested June 3 as the third recipient of the Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair.
Health Sciences Boot Camp Shows Students Possibilities in Business
Judges had a harder time choosing a winner than in past years of the Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp because all the team presentations were so strong, according to one organizer. But, after much debate, PAKI Solutions earned the win. Eighteen undergraduate and graduate students from across Arkansas went through the fourth annual boot camp…
Myeloma Patient in Remission, Grateful for Additional Time
Linda Reins, 73, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is no stranger to cancer. In 1985, when she was 40, her local gynecologist’s office floored her with the first diagnosis. “They told me, ‘You’re pregnant and oh, you also have cervical cancer,’ said Reins, who had two teenaged sons at the time. “The next day, my husband at…
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