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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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The TRIbune Is Here!

The April TRIbune newsletter features TRI Research Day 2025, a two-day gathering that drew 169 attendees from across UAMS and its partners at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute and the Central Arkansas Veterans Health System. This fourth annual event, expanded for the first time to two days, included insightful keynote addresses from Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., from […]

The TRIbune Is Here!

The March issue of The TRIbune announces exciting changes for TRI’s K12 Mentored Research Career Development Scholar Award Program. These include changes in leadership with Mario Schootman, Ph.D., taking over as principal investigator and director. He is joined by co-directors Josh Kennedy, M.D., a 2015 graduate of the program, and Jason Farrar, M.D., who was named co-director last fall. […]

You’re Invited! TRI Research Day 2025 Thursday & Friday, April 10-11; Register by Monday, April 7

We’re thrilled to invite all UAMS-affiliated faculty and staff to join us for two inspiring days celebrating innovation in translational research!  Location: Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Conference Center, 10th floor.   The themes for this year’s expanded TRI Research Day are: Day 1: Integrating Data to Further Translational Science Day 2: Community Engaged Research Day: Impacting Community Health through […]

The TRIbune Is Here!

The February issue of The TRIbune features a vital partnership with UAMS Regional Programs to bring a national research effort to UAMS family medicine clinics in rural Arkansas. UAMS family medicine physicians Jacquelene Childs, M.D., in El Dorado and Jordan Weaver, M.D., in Batesville bring their crucial rural perspectives to the recently funded NIH initiative […]

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