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UAMS Employees Aid Hurricane Katrina Evacuees From providing medical care to hurricane evacuees in shelters and nursing homes around central Arkansas to providing preemie-sized bottles and diapers for an infant at a DeWitt shelter, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) employees are continuing to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina. When workers at a shelter for hurricane evacuees in the southeast Arkansas town needed supplies for the prematurely-born infant, they turned to the UAMS Disaster Relief Fund. Donations from UAMS employees have also allowed shipments of medications for diabetes and other conditions as well as household supplies and personal hygiene items to go to shelters in Mississippi. Thousands of evacuees from hurricane-affected areas of Louisiana and Mississippi are now in Arkansas, bringing with them medical and other needs that must be addressed. They are being cared for in shelters and other facilities across the state and UAMS physicians, nurses and other health care professionals are volunteering their time to provide care. About $16,000 has been added to the UAMS Disaster Relief Fund by direct employee contributions. The fund was established Sept. 2 by Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., with a $9,000 donation on behalf of employees. The money is being used to provide for those in need after the hurricane and subsequent flooding, which forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. The fund is being administered by UAMS’ Social Work Department and used to buy prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, food, diapers, baby formula, transportation to and from shelters and other essentials needed by families displaced by the hurricane.
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UAMS, UAF, UALR, Partner Schools Receive $16.7 Million to Boost Biomedical Research Efforts The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF), the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and seven partner institutions have received a five-year, $16.7 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and improve biomedical research in Arkansas. The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a division of NIH, awarded the grant through its Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program. This Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) award follows a four-year, $9.3 million grant funded in 2001 to create the Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN). The new INBRE grant is intended to enhance biomedical research through support of individual research projects, state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation and new programs in biomedical education. The funds will be shared among the lead institutions, UAMS, UAF and UALR, as well as seven partner institutions that include Arkansas State University, Hendrix College, John Brown University, Lyon College, Ouachita Baptist University, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the University of Central Arkansas. “This grant is critical for continued development of biomedical research programs that will improve the lives of Arkansans since laboratory research is a vital link in finding new medical treatments,” said Lawrence E. Cornett, Ph.D., director of Arkansas INBRE and a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the UAMS College of Medicine. “Thanks to BRIN funding, we have helped to establish research programs that are conducting cutting-edge research in neuroscience and cancer biology through recruitment of highly-skilled and research-focused faculty and students to these institutions across the state.” |
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