Arkansas
May 31, 2018
UAMS Gives Students Close-Up of Opioids Treatment, Research
May 31, 2018 | As 19 Arkansas undergraduate students listened quietly, the 20-year-old opioid addict, sitting a few feet away, talked with a UAMS psychiatrist and then a UAMS psychologist about her failed attempts to quit using. The messy addiction story of “Lynn,” with treatment medications she dislikes and friends who enjoy using drugs, highlighted…
March 7, 2018
UAMS Researchers Circulating Survey About Medical Marijuana
March 7, 2018 | A first-of-its-kind survey is being circulated in Arkansas by UAMS researchers interested in Arkansans’ attitudes and perceptions about cannabis (marijuana) as state officials prepare to make it available for medical use. Of the 28 other states with medical marijuana, none have conducted surveys prior to its legalization that document public attitudes…
October 11, 2017
UAMS Translational Research Institute Receives $3.5 Million to Help Speed Discovery
Oct. 11, 2017 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute has received funding for a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) totaling $3,497,558 through Aug. 31, 2018. The 11 months of funding comes from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It will enable UAMS to continue its…
September 8, 2017
UAMS Invites Public to Fall 2017 Community Scientist Academy
Sept. 8, 2017 | Arkansans interested in having a voice in UAMS research programs or simply learning how research is done are invited to participate in UAMS’ fall 2017 Community Scientist Academy. Sponsored by the UAMS Translational Research Institute, the Community Scientist Academy will be on Thursdays beginning Sept. 21 through Oct. 26, from 10 a.m….
June 5, 2017
New Biomedical Informatics Degrees at UAMS to Provide Driving Force for Personalized Medicine
LITTLE ROCK — Three new degrees and a certificate in biomedical informatics to help professionals assess and manage large sets of medical and public health information will soon be offered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The Arkansas Department of Higher Education recently approved the three graduate degrees — Doctorate of Philosophy,…
May 11, 2017
Fire Alarm Disrupts, Does Not Deter TRI ‘A-Team’
Homer Paul, a research participant, was in the midst of a 10-hour series of blood draws and neurological tests for a new Parkinson’s disease drug when the fire alarm sounded at the UAMS Translational Research Institute’s (TRI) Clinical Trials Innovation Unit on the fifth floor of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute building….
May 4, 2017
With Time on His Side, NLR Man Survives Stroke
May 4, 2017 | If his family had waited just half an hour more, the prognosis for 91-year-old Wayne Harris would not have been promising. One Saturday afternoon in early March, Cathy Harris was sorting clothes while her husband of 35 years was finishing a meal. “I could see him at the table and he…
April 24, 2017
How a Governor’s Cup Win Got an Assist from the UAMS Translational Research Institute
April 24, 2017 | UAMS’ Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., recently celebrated her team’s victory in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition. The team, Rejuvenics Technologies, won the $25,000 top prize with its idea for commercializing a drug-delivery system to reduce the harmful side effects of chemotherapy. Just under a year ago, the…
April 14, 2017
Inherited Cancer Risk Leads Travel Blogger to Choose Mastectomy
April 14, 2017 | Lesley Murphy is accustomed to waking up in exotic locations. From snow-covered Finland to the beaches of Bali, this 29-year-old professional blogger spends more than 300 days a year documenting her travels to vacation destinations around the world.
March 13, 2017
Promise to Patient Inspires UAMS Doctor to run Half Marathon
March 13, 2017 | When Nikhil Meena, M.D., crossed the finish line of his first half marathon March 5, his patient, the late Joe Cook, symbolically crossed it with him. Cook, who died of lung cancer July 2, 2016, had taken up long-distance running about a year earlier after watching several friends enjoy the sport….
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