A $770,000 National Institutes of Health grant will fund a new collaboration studying COVID-19 variants in Arkansas, increasing the capacity for genomic sequencing, tracking and analyses of virus samples. read more >
Dr. Hui-Ming Chang at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences gets a five-year, $3.5 million National Institutes of Health grant. read more >
UAMS researchers have been awarded a one-year, $1.4 million grant to study the causes behind COVID-19’s devastating impact on minorities and develop plans to help increase vaccination rates as part of a national alliance. read more >
The Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. read more >
A researcher with the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute gets a five-year, $1.27 million grant to work toward developing two treatment options for acute myeloid leukemia patients. read more >
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awards a five-year, $1.7 million grant to a UAMS researcher studying a deadly pathogen that causes severe pneumonia. read more >
Arkansas Children’s Research Institute has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study asthma in children. read more >
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences win a $10.8 million grant to establish the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center as an National Institutes of Health-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. read more >
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers have received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health to conduct a diabetes study. read more >
An assistant professor of basic sciences at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University has secured a multi-year grant for $428,400 from the National Institutes of Health. read more >
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $443,854, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. read more >
Arkansas Children’s Research Institute received more than $1.2 million from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year study that looks at the effects of exposure to trichloroethylene. read more >
When the United States is facing a potential pandemic — and the potential of an accompanying economic downturn — its citizens need to be able to trust their government. read more >
Marijuana is one of the few growth industries we have right now. Of course, I'm referring to the new industry of legal marijuana. Weed has been a profitable enterprise for the most risk-tolerant entrepreneurs for decades. read more >
Researchers at the Arkansas Children's Research Institute received $516,375 from the National Institutes of Health to study how prenatal exposure to opioids and other drugs affects children's brain development. read more >
Arkansas Children's Research Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have received a $420,000 National Institutes of Health to research chlamydia. read more >
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been awarded a $763,971 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund the purchase of biomedical research equipment with new capabilities unavailable elsewhere in the state. read more >
UAMS gets a $1.27 million science education research grant to teach Little Rock School District students about STEM careers and cardiovascular health. read more >
A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences professor has been awarded a $11.3 million federal grant to be distributed over five years that will fund the launch of a Center For Musculoskeletal Disease Research. read more >
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences scientist Dr. Daohong Zhou has received his third concurrent R01-type Research Project Grant by the National Institutes of Health. read more >
