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The UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI) provides services and resources to ensure the swift translation of research into health care advances. This support is available to all UAMS researchers at the UAMS campus in Little Rock, the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Research Institute in Little Rock, and the Central Arkansas Veteran’s Healthcare System in Little Rock and North Little Rock. TRI is supported by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

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UAMS Researchers Invited to Apply for Multi-institutional Pilot Awards

The Consortium of Rural States (CORES) Research Collaborative, which includes UAMS, recently released its multi-institutional pilot award Request for Applications (RFA), with up to $25,000 available per award per participating institution. All UAMS-affiliated faculty are invited to apply, including those based at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. Letters of […]

UAMS’ Chenghui Li, Ph.D., Publishes 33 Papers after NCATS Re-Entry Grant

Unplanned life events sidelined UAMS researcher Chenghui Li, Ph.D., for two years, but since returning in 2020 she has authored or co-authored 33 published papers, thanks largely to a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) re-entry grant. The NCATS re-entry grants, also known as the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program Diversity, Re-training, […]

TRI-Supported Researcher Megha Sharma, M.D., Published in Pediatrics

A successful effort at UAMS to reduce the amount of blood taken for lab tests from premature infants has been published in the journal Pediatrics. The project was led by Megha Sharma, M.D., a neonatologist and associate professor in the College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Her work was conducted in the UAMS Neonatal Intensive […]

The TRIbune Is Here!

In the October issue of The TRIbune, we feature one of TRI’s biggest co-sponsored events of the year, Research Expo 2024, coupled this year with the UAMS Division of Research and Innovation New Research Faculty Orientation.  We also announce three new faculty leaders for TRI: Jason E. Farrar, M.D., Melody Greer, Ph.D., and Tuhin Virmani, M.D., Ph.D. This issue […]

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