A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research team in Northwest Arkansas will study a potential way to improve health outcomes of pregnant Marshallese women using group-based care and health care navigators. Led by UAMS researcher Britni Ayers, Ph.D.,…
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NIH Awards Arkansas Children’s Research Institute $9.7M for Antifungal Therapy Study
by Mak Millardby Mak MillardThe National Institutes of Health recently awarded Arkansas Children’s Research Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia $9.7 million in funding to conduct a unique study on antifungal therapy in children. The clinical trial will take place over seven years and…
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ASBTDC Offers Free Webinars to Prepare for Federal Funding Opportunity
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC), based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is offering a free summer series designed to help small businesses win federal funding for research and development of innovative technologies with…
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UAMS Researchers Receive $1.5M to Study Impact of Maternal Diabetes
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffResearchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hope to gain important insights about fetal neurodevelopment in a new study with diabetic pregnant mothers. Funded by a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),…
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UAMS Researchers See Increase in Grant Funding for Fiscal Year 2021
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its affiliate research institutions saw research funding grow by 12.2 percent this past year, with $177.4 million in grants by the end of the fiscal year on June 30. It is…
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UAMS, ACRI Awarded $7.2M to Continue Study of Early Childhood Development
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have received $7.2 million in funding over five years from the National Institutes of Health to continue their participation in the nationwide HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD)…
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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…
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UAMS Researchers Receive $1.36M NIH Grant to Study Ways of Protecting Pelvic Muscles During Childbirth
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.36 million grant to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to develop a non-invasive means of detecting weaknesses in a pregnant woman’s pelvic floor muscles that could lead…
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UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Gets $1.9 Million Grant for Alzheimer’s Disease Research
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging has receive a $1.9 million grant for Alzheimer’s disease research. This $1.9 million grant will fund a five-year project that will focus on glucose transporter cells and…
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Parajuli Receives $2.46 Million Grant for Kidney Transplant Research
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffA University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researcher has received a $2.46 million grant to study the long-term outcomes of receiving kidneys from deceased donors. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Nirmala Parajuli, DVM, Ph.D., the grant, which will…