Aug. 6, 2024 | Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered that an FDA-approved cholesterol drug holds the potential to disrupt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The research team published its findings in the journal Aging Biology. Akshatha Ganne, a postdoctoral fellow in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department...
Aug. 5, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) are collaborating on a yearlong project to make decades of maternal health research readily available for future researchers. The project is funded by a $310,000 grant from the National Institutes of...
Aug. 2, 2024 | To meet the cancer care needs of the future, the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is working to strengthen its research and training programs to produce the next generation of cancer researchers and oncologists. One of the institute’s training programs that’s generating enthusiasm among medical students is the Partnership in Cancer Research (PCAR) summer...
Aug. 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reported the second highest fundraising year, raising more than $40.8 million through gifts and philanthropic grants in the 2024 fiscal year. It is only the second time in UAMS’s history that fundraising has exceeded $40 million. In total, 5,336 donations were received in the...
July 31, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Addiction Research Training Program was recently awarded $2.4 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to renew the program for another five years.
July 30, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — Sam Dalvi, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Internal Medicine as a professor and director of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology. Dalvi joins UAMS from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, where he was an associate professor....
July 30, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of Best Graduate Schools for 2024 ranked the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Professions and Public Health highly among their peers nationwide. The UAMS College of Pharmacy was ranked 31st nationwide among all pharmacy colleges. It has produced...
July 29, 2024 | Ask Issabella Drew about her experience at one of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) summer programs and you might be surprised when she mentions pig feet. “My favorite part of the week was probably suturing,” Drew said. “We used pig feet to demonstrate all the different ways you can suture a wound....
July 26, 2024 | Memphis OB-GYN Lea Bannister was so excited about buying a fancy new carbon-fiber bicycle that the first time she rode it, she didn’t stop pedaling for 25 miles. It was the first time she had ridden a bike in several years, however, and at age 61, she was prone to osteoarthritis. She had already undergone...
July 25, 2024 | The results of an international clinical trial led by Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), on the use of a novel bispecific antibody for women with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer were published today in JAMA Oncology. Cervical cancer is...