Doctors at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently activated the first lung biopsy robot in Arkansas. The robot allows doctors to discover and biopsy previously undetectable cancerous nodules in the far reaches of the lungs. “This enables…
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UAMS Researcher First in State to Win Prestigious NIH Award
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffBrian Koss, Ph.D., a researcher with the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, is the state’s first recipient of the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award, UAMS officials announced Monday. Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the Early…
Dr. Fen Xia, a professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has received a five-year grant of more than $1.86 million from the National Cancer Institute. She received the grant…