The UAMS Translational Research Institute Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HSIE) Postdoctoral Training Program has named two postdoctoral scholars for its class of 2023. The scholars, selected in a competitive application process, will receive two years of mentored entrepreneurship training.
The HSIE postdoctoral trainees, their research goals and mentors are:
Henry A. Palfrey, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research goal is to conduct studies to screen a library of compounds and determine the ability of novel epoxylipid drugs to provide protection against radiation-induced kidney and cardiovascular injury
Mentor: John D. Imig, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; and vice president for therapeutics at BioVentures LLC.
Ashley Pike, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain Imaging Research Center of the Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI). Her primary research goal is to implement advanced neuroimaging techniques for clinical problem solving in multiple sclerosis (MS). Mentor: Tatiana Wolfe, Ph.D., assistant professor, medical imaging physicist, PRI, College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry