A scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has reached a status few achieve by being awarded his third concurrent R01-type Research Project Grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Daohong Zhou, MD, received the $1.8 million grant to support his research on a therapy to prevent, and possibly reverse, a lung disease found in patients who undergo radiation therapy for cancer. Zhou is associate director for basic research in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Lyle J. Burdine, MD, PhD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant surgeon.
Ronda Henry-Tillman, MD, has been named chief of Breast Oncology in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She sees patients in the second floor clinics at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.