National Institutes of Health

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.,…

The 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…

The 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…

Researchers 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),…

The 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…

Arkansas 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)…

Brian 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…

The 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…

The 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…

A 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…