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The TRIbune Is Here!

Samir Jenkins, Ph.D., Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and Aaron Storey, Ph.D., are advancing translational research using their TRI-supported entrepreneurship training and NIH small business funding.
Samir Jenkins, Ph.D., Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and Aaron Storey, Ph.D., are advancing translational research using their TRI-supported entrepreneurship training and NIH small business funding.

In this month’s TRIbune newsletter, we’re highlighting the success of three TRI entrepreneurship trainees: Samir Jenkins, Ph.D., Amanda Stolarz, Ph.D., and Aaron Storey, Ph.D. Stolarz participated in a 2016 TRI-supported training, and Jenkins and Storey were part of the 2019 inaugural class of TRI Health Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HSIE) Program. All are advancing translational research using their TRI supported training and NIH small business funding. 

Our TRI Study of the Month features UAMS’ Gohar Azhar, M.D., and Jeanne Y. Wei, M.D., Ph.D., and their work on a multi-center study of lipid lowering in older adults.

We also highlight the six UAMS researchers who are part of two research projects that received TRI Team Science Voucher Awards.

Read The TRIbune.

Posted by David Robinson on August 31, 2022

Filed Under: Front, News, Newsroom

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