UAMS Awarded $11.5M to Establish Center for Molecular Interactions in Cancer
UAMS has received a five-year, $11.48 million federal grant to establish a center to study the molecular features and properties of biomolecules that drive cancer. The Center for Molecular Interactions...
View ArticleBioVentures and The Venture Center Partner to Support Health Tech Entrepreneurs
BioVentures LLC at UAMS has launched a new program in partnership with The Venture Center of Little Rock to support socially and economically disadvantaged innovators in health care and technology. The...
View ArticleUAMS Gets $2.3M Grant for Bone Loss Study
UAMS announced that its researchers have received a $2.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to answer questions about the cellular mechanisms used by estrogen to prevent bone loss...
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Healthcare Havoc: Arkansas Institutions Grapple with Aftermath of Cyberattack
Six weeks after a cyberattack on health care billing and payment clearinghouse Change Healthcare, Arkansas hospitals and providers are still struggling with the fallout. Amanda George (UAMS) The Feb....
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UAMS Hires 2 New Oncologists (Movers & Shakers)
Dr. Manojna Konda and Dr. Vivek Yadala have been hired as oncologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences of Little Rock. Konda is a graduate of the UAMS College of Medicine, where she...
View ArticleUA and UAMS Awarded $1.9M to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $1.9 million to a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Arkansas and UAMS to develop a wearable device that will help with the early...
View ArticleArkansas Children’s and UAMS Get $3.2M to Study Treatments for Vascular...
The Arkansas Children’s Research Institute and UAMS have been awarded a $3.2 million federal grant to study treatments for children with lymphatic malformations, Arkansas Children’s said in news...
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Lindsey Spears Joins Medical Assets Holding Co. as Director of Business...
Lindsey Spears has been named director of sales and business development by Medical Assets Holding Co. of Little Rock. With more than a decade of experience serving seniors in the health care industry,...
View ArticleUAMS Gains New Chair in Family Medicine (Super Mover)
Dr. Shashank Kraleti was recently installed in the Family Medicine chair endowed in honor of Dr. Algernon Disney Garnett, who practiced medicine in Hot Springs for 45 years before his death in 1919 and...
View ArticleWalmart Foundation Gives $750K to Fight Food Insecurity in Northwest Arkansas
The Northwest Arkansas Food Insecurity Community of Practice announced it has received a $750,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation, the charitable arm of Walmart Inc. of Bentonville, that will help it...
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