Researchers at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been awarded five new grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2024, totaling $4.6 million.
New grants include:
-$3.3 million NCI grant to create a Melanoma Resistance Evolution Atlas, Principal Investigator: Alan Tackett, PhD, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute deputy director
Cori Keller has joined Baptist Health as a physician relations representative.
Keller, a Stuttgart native, is a two-time graduate of Arkansas State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and a master’s degree in radio/TV mass communications.
As Miss Arkansas 2023, Keller devoted much of her advocacy to two primary initiatives – heart health and childhood hunger.
In a major boost to cardiovascular research, the National Institutes of Health has awarded an additional $3.7 million to Shengyu Mu, PhD, and his team of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to continue their groundbreaking study on the role of immune cells in hypertension.
The Arkansas Children's Northwest (ACNW) Auxiliary has committed $3 million to support the expansion initiatives at ACNW.
Since its establishment in 2022, the ACNW Auxiliary, consisting of 130 members, has played a pivotal role in providing support to patients and families through various fundraising events and projects. During their June year-end meeting to commemorate the accomplishments of the 2024 fiscal year, Toni Lindsey, president of the auxiliary, revealed that the auxiliary had achieved a record-breaking fundraising amount of $333,387.
Arkansas Children’s is promoting longtime leader Ryan Solomon, JD, MPS, to senior vice president of hospital operations for Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) in Little Rock. He began his new role on June 24.
