UAMS News
July 20, 2007
UAMS Opens Arkansas’ First Lab for Drug Trials
LITTLE ROCK – A new laboratory specially designed for making drugs used in clinical trials was the setting today for an open house at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures building.
July 19, 2007
UAMS Researchers Identify Sleep-Wake Controls with Implications for Coma Patients and Those Under Anesthesia
LITTLE ROCK – How do we wake up? How do we shift from restful sleep to dreaming? Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered a new brain mechanism that just might explain how we do that. This new mechanism also may help us understand how certain anesthetics put us to sleep and how certain stimulants wake us up.
July 18, 2007
UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Announces $2.5 Million Gift from Frank and Jane Lyon
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a gift of $2.5 million from Frank and Jane Lyon to its Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics. The donation will be used to create the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging.
Tom Mulligan, M.D., Named Director of UAMS Center on Aging in Jonesboro
LITTLE ROCK – Tom Mulligan, M.D., has been named director of the Center on Aging Northeast in Jonesboro. The center is a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, the UAMS Area Health Education Center Northeast and St. Bernards Healthcare in Jonesboro
July 16, 2007
Gift of $50,000 to UAMS Cancer Center To Benefit Leukemia Research
LITTLE ROCK – A donation of $50,000 to the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will assist in equipping a lab dedicated to leukemia research.
July 11, 2007
UAMS’ Lowery Named Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology
LITTLE ROCK – Curtis Lowery, M.D., a maternal-fetal specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named chairman of the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
July 9, 2007
$40,000 Grant to Support Geriatrics Education at UAMS
LITTLE ROCK – An assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a two-year grant totaling $40,000 to assist in training medical and surgical residents in the area of geriatrics.
July 5, 2007
J. Robert Harris Named Assistant Vice Chancellor for Ambulatory Services at UAMS Medical Center
LITTLE ROCK – J. Robert Harris has been named assistant vice chancellor for ambulatory services at UAMS Medical Center.
June 28, 2007
UAMS Celebrates Double ‘Topping Out’ of Hospital Expansion, PRI
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today marked the high points for construction of a 10-floor, 540,000-square-foot expansion of UAMS Medical Center and the adjacent five-floor, 100,000-square-foot Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI) with a double “topping out” ceremony.
June 26, 2007
Two UAMS Doctoral Students Receive Geriatric Nursing Awards
LITTLE ROCK – Two University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing doctoral students are among 14 pre-doctoral scholars selected nationally to receive up to $100,000 each to continue their advanced geriatric nursing studies over the next two years.
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