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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-TRI Training Program Helps Postdocs Develop Entrepreneurial Spirit, Form Competition-Winning Pharmaceutical Startup

Only two years ago, the idea of commercializing their future research discoveries was a novel concept for Julia Tobacyk, Ph.D., and Megan Reed, Ph.D. Today they can say they created a startup company as postdoctoral fellows in the Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HSIE) training program, which is the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National […]

TRI, NCATS Support Helps Researcher Secure American Cancer Society Grant for ACA-Racial Disparities Study

An American Cancer Society grant will support UAMS study of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) influence on racial disparities in the use of a common, life-saving treatment for Arkansas breast cancer patients. The two-year, $222,000 grant is led by Chenghui Li, Ph.D., an associate professor in the College of Pharmacy Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and […]

Christi Madden, MPA, Named Executive Director of Translational Research Institute

Christi Madden, MPA, has joined the UAMS Translational Research Institute as its executive director. Madden, a leader with more than two decades of research programmatic management experience, spent most of her career in her home state of Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), where she worked in the Department of Pediatrics […]

The TRIbune Is Here!

In this month’s TRIbune newsletter, we feature our second annual TRI Research Day, which drew about 150 people from the UAMS research community, including Arkansas Children’s and the Central Arkansas Veteran’s Healthcare System. Eight of our TRI-supported researchers gave oral presentations, and there were 33 poster presentations. Our keynote speaker was the University of Florida’s […]

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