April 27, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a gift of $140,000 from Gary Clark, P.D., to increase the endowment of his family scholarship for the UAMS College of Pharmacy to a university scholarship.
April 24, 2026 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hosted a topping out ceremony today for the UAMS Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital, which will be the new home of world-class orthopaedic and sports medicine care providers serving Northwest Arkansas. Attendees were invited to sign a beam, which was then hoisted by crane...
April 24, 2026 | By Shannon Perna “Thank you.” These heartfelt words are often all that’s needed to express sincere gratitude, but after 20 years of life-saving treatment at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, Don Wilson, DVM, and his wife, Melissa Wilson, wanted to do more. So more than a decade ago, they began to...
April 23, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK — The Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received two sculptures by Ryan Schmidt that were commissioned by Jackye and Curtis Finch Jr. The sculptures, titled “Persistence” and “Stupendous,” are in the first-floor lobby and on the fourth floors, respectively, of the hospital, and are together...
April 22, 2026 | Many people fear public speaking and rightly so. You’re on stage, out there in the spotlight, facing an audience filled with unknown faces and trying to connect through a story, while not misspeaking, boring the room to sleep, or freezing. For researchers talking to a lay audience, the challenge is magnified. The dread of public...
April 21, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to form the Dr. Joseph H. Bates Preventive Medicine Residency Program, a blend of public health and general preventive medicine. It will be the only preventive medicine residency program in Arkansas. Recruitment will begin this...
April 20, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (UAFS) have entered into a formal Memorandum of Agreement designed to create clear, accelerated pathways for UAFS graduates pursuing careers in health care. The agreement covers 14 UAMS programs across four colleges and offers qualifying UAFS students guaranteed...
April 27, 2026 | On a recent Saturday morning at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Simulation Center, six high school students gathered around a manikin that needed immediate medical attention.
April 24, 2026 | April 24, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) honored members of the Society of the Double Helix during an April 16 reception at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. The Society of the Double Helix was established by UAMS in 1998 as a way for the university to...
April 21, 2026 | National and state leaders in health care and community outreach recently convened at the Fayetteville Town Center to engage, learn, and collaborate on solutions to improve access to care across Arkansas. The April 2 summit kicked off with a keynote discussion by Neel Shah, chief medical officer of Maven Clinic, and nurse midwife Cara Osborne...
April 24, 2026 | Majid Asgari, Ph.D. Majid Asgari, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine. He earned his doctorate in medical biotechnology from the Pasteur Institute of Iran in 2021 and joined the UAMS Myeloma Center in 2024 in the lab of research director Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, M.D., Ph.D. His...
April 24, 2026 | Five years after its opening, Infusion B at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute continues to play a vital role in the transformational care that blood cancer patients receive at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The state-of-the-art center, which opened in late 2020 on the institute’s sixth floor, sees patients with such...
April 24, 2026 | The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the state’s leader in cancer clinical trials. Clinical trials are conducted for purposes such as studying new drugs or drug combinations, reviewing a new method of performing surgeries or using existing treatments, or researching ways to prevent diseases. The...
April 24, 2026 | Kayla Hefner, RN, has been in health care nearly her entire life. “My mother worked in the human resources department at the old Doctors Hospital in Little Rock,” said Hefner, a nurse with the Myeloma Center in the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). “As a teenager,...
April 24, 2026 | Multi-omics reveal immune microenvironment alterations in multiple myeloma and its precursor stages Blood Cancer Journal November 2024 Primary authors: Yan Cheng, Ph.D.; Fumou Sun, Ph.D. Tumor immune microenvironmental alterations occur early in multiple myeloma development. In this study, we aim to systematically characterize the tumor immune microenvironment (TME) and the tumor-immune interactions from precursor stages,...
April 24, 2026 | Gary Robertson thinks his multiple myeloma diagnosis came at good time, if such a thing is possible. “I’d never any had health issues to speak of,” said the 73-year-old Robertson, whose multiple myeloma diagnosis coincided with a groundbreaking clinical trial at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. His...
April 24, 2026 | The Myeloma Center began at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in 1989. The Cytogenetics Laboratory has been supporting them since the beginning. The Cytogenetics Laboratory, located at the Freeway Medical Tower in Little Rock off UAMS’ main campus, is part of the Clinical Laboratory under the UAMS College of Medicine Department of...
April 24, 2026 | Carolina Schinke, M.D., one of the exceptional clinicians and researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Myeloma Center, has been recognized for her outstanding work. The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its annual research retreat on May 7, 2025, at the Robinson Center in downtown Little Rock, at which Schinke was...