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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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KL2 Scholar Jure Baloh, Ph.D., Receives $657,000 NIH Grant to Test Addiction Treatment Supervision Strategy

Jure Baloh, Ph.D., MHA, a 2022 graduate of the UAMS Translational Research Institute’s (TRI) KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Scholar Award Program, is using a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support his work related to addiction treatment. Baloh, an assistant professor in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department […]

Why Is Asthma More Challenging for Arkansas Children? ACRI/UAMS Researcher Aims to Find Out with NIH Funding

Children who grow up in Arkansas have a harder time with asthma than their peers elsewhere, and a scientist at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hopes to discover why. Akilah Jefferson, M.D., an early career researcher at ACRI, will use a $662,000 four-year award from the […]

UAMS Faculty Join TRI Leadership Team

The UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI) recently welcomed three UAMS faculty members to its leadership team, with Jason E. Farrar, M.D., Melody Greer, Ph.D., and Tuhin Virmani, M.D., Ph.D., providing oversight of key programs and serving on the TRI Leadership Council. Farrar is co-director and a multiple principal investigator of the K12 Mentored Research Career […]

75 Years after Accident, UAMS Surgeons, I³R Researchers Restore Greenwood Pastor’s Sense of Touch, Ability to Grip

As Dewey Hickey took apart and reassembled a bait casting reel using an experimental prosthetic hand system, he marveled at the revolutionary technology that made it possible. “It amazes me,” said Hickey, who in January 2023 became the first Arkansan and only the second person in the world to receive the device, which restored his […]

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