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May 12, 2021
UAMS Expanding Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program to Northwest Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is adding another academic program to its UAMS Northwest Regional Campus — the Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. The degree is already offered by the UAMS College of Health Professions’ Department of Imaging and Radiation Sciences on UAMS’ Little Rock campus. The college…
August 26, 2019
North Arkansas College, UAMS Sign New Online Transfer Agreement
North Arkansas College in Harrison has signed an agreement with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) that allows Northark Medical Laboratory Technology (MLT) graduates to transfer to a corresponding online Bachelor of Science degree program through UAMS without leaving their hometowns.
July 17, 2019
UAMS Translational Research Institute Launches Entrepreneurship Training Program with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
A first-of-its-kind entrepreneurship training program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will teach its most promising young innovators how to move their health-science technologies into the marketplace. The UAMS Translational Research Institute kicked off the program with the announcement of its first four postdoctoral trainees in the Health Science Innovation & Entrepreneurship…
June 19, 2019
New UAMS Biomedical Informatics Program Has First Graduate
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) made history this spring with its first Master of Science graduate in biomedical informatics/translational bioinformatics. Biomedical informatics professionals use computational tools to learn from medical and public health information to improve human health. As one of the program’s first enrollees, Dina Elsayed was aware she would be…
May 29, 2019
UAMS, International Collaborators Use FDA-Approved Drugs to Extend Life in Worms
An international research collaboration that includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has discovered that aging in nematodes (worms) can be slowed and even reversed by a number of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, findings that have the potential to extend human lifespan. The study findings are published in Scientific Reports. The…
April 2, 2019
Garcia-Rill Closing Out Successful 15-Year NIH Grant, Distinguished Career
After 50 years as a biomedical researcher, Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D., is close to hanging up his lab coat. When he does, he’ll look back on the last 15 years as the most rewarding of his distinguished career. “It will be like retiring after winning the Super Bowl,” said the UAMS professor in the Department of…
February 27, 2019
UAMS Researchers Lead First Rapid Sequencing of Multiple Viruses Using Pocket-Sized Device
An international team of researchers led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first to deploy a pocket-sized nanopore device for rapid genetic sequencing of multiple human viruses. The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, the world’s most cited microbiology journal. UAMS’ Thidathip (Tip) Wongsurawat, Ph.D., and Piroon…
February 15, 2019
Public Invited to Learn About, Sign Up for Historic Research Volunteer Program at UAMS
NOTE: This release has been updated to reflect a change in the All of Us Exhibit and Enrollment Center schedule at UAMS. The traveling exhibit/center will be on the UAMS Little Rock campus through Friday, March 8, not Saturday, as previously planned. LITTLE ROCK — The public is invited to the traveling National Institutes of…
January 28, 2019
Diabetic Pain Study at UAMS Enrolling Participants to Test Spinal Cord Stimulation Device
People with chronic painful diabetic neuropathy are being enrolled in a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research study of a spinal cord stimulation device designed to reduce the pain. Led at UAMS by Erika Petersen, M.D., a neurosurgeon and researcher, the study is part of a clinical trial being conducted at sites across…
January 25, 2019
UAMS Researcher Joins International Colleagues in Journal Science Urging Open Access to Genomics Data
Scientific discovery could be accelerated with more open access to genomic data, says an article in the latest journal Science by a group of research leaders from across the globe that includes David W. Ussery, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). “We argue that the publicly available data should be treated…
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