UAMS Translational Research Institute


July 7, 2021

Researcher Finds Challenges in Study Involving Methamphetamine

Linda Haymes

Michael Wilson, M.D., an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, is studying how methamphetamine affects the human body, particularly how the body responds to stress.

If the photo of the pile of crystal methamphetamine doesn’t get your attention, the question on the flyer, designed by the UAMS Translational Research Institute and complete with the UAMS logo and familiar triangles, will.

“Use meth?”


September 19, 2019

UAMS, Community Groups Discuss Helping Housing Insecure Pregnant Women

Ashley McNatt

Cindy Crone, M.N.Sc., APRN

Identifying resources for pregnant women who are housing insecure engaged leaders and community groups Sept. 9 at the Supporting Families in Crisis conference held at the Four Points by Sheraton in Little Rock. Over 200 community leaders, faith leaders, students, educators, researchers, health care workers, mothers impacted by homelessness, and organizations who provide services for…


January 7, 2019

UAMS Awards Six Grants for Opioid / Pain Research

David Robinson

(Image credit: Science News/Federico Gastaldi)

Six UAMS researchers have received pilot awards for opioid addiction and pain management studies. The one-year awards of up to $25,000 each will help the researchers get the preliminary data needed to apply for larger federal grants to continue and expand their research at UAMS. Below are the awardees, research study titles, and links to…


November 27, 2018

UAMS Showcase of Medical Discoveries Highlights Collaboration, Variety of Approaches in Fight Against Opioid Epidemic

Spencer Watson

UAMS researchers present their work investigating methods of combatting the opioid epidemic.

A variety of solutions with which to attack the ongoing national opioid epidemic took center stage at the 22nd Showcase of Medical Discoveries, held Nov. 14 in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.


March 14, 2018

Boot Camp, BioVentures Propel Researcher into Award-winning Business

Ben Boulden

Rejuvenix CEO Joshua Phillips, left, Jay Gandy, Ph.D., and Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Rejuvenix Technologies chief science officer, stop outside the offices of BioVentures before meeting with BioVentures director Nancy Gray, Ph.D.

March 14, 2018 | Sometimes a motivation and an idea grounded in the academic world make the same journey and reach the same destination together. They did for Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D. in 2016. At the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp in the summer of 2016, Stolarz’s motivation to do purely academic research met up with an…


March 7, 2018

UAMS Researchers Circulating Survey About Medical Marijuana

David Robinson

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…


May 11, 2017

Fire Alarm Disrupts, Does Not Deter TRI ‘A-Team’

David Robinson

Despite a fire alarm evacuation, the TRI study team kept testing on schedule in UAMS Parking 3 for research participant Homer Paul (center). Team members are (l-r) Cynthia Witkowski, Angela Moore, Ashley Sides, Dr. Rohit Dhall and Shannon Doerhoff.

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….


March 22, 2017

Faith, Community Leaders to Gather April 7 for Community-Campus Partnership Conference

Ashley McNatt

March 22, 2017 — Arkansas faith leaders, community leaders, educators, health care providers and researchers are invited to attend the Third Annual Community-Campus Partnership Conference to address health disparities on April 7. The free conference, presented by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton in Little…


March 20, 2017

UAMS Helps Shine Light on Rare Diseases at State Capitol Event

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Gareth Morgan UAMS

March 20, 2017 | Hoping to bring more attention to rare diseases, several UAMS faculty and staff went to the state Capitol on March 8 to participate in the inaugural Rare Disease Day advocacy event. Gareth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the UAMS Myeloma Institute and a professor of internal medicine in the UAMS College of…


July 13, 2016

Camden-Area Residents Invited to Conversation About UAMS Research July 23

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK — Camden-area residents are invited by the Plant a Seed Foundation and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to participate in a July 23 conversation about health research. The free session will be held from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Carne Park, 955 Adams St., Camden. The event will include…



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