Research

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has active basic and clinical research in the Divisions of Maternal Fetal medicine, Gynecology, Gynecological Oncology, and Reproductive Endocrinology. Our mission is to create a center of excellence in women’s health to serve the people of Arkansas. Our goal is to expand our research activities by utilizing supportive internal resources and collaboration, and continue to seek external funding. Current research interests are listed below:

• Maternal-fetal medicine
  Placental Physiology and Pathology
  Fetal monitoring and Uterine contractions in Term and Preterm Pregnancy and labor
  Birth defects and Diabetes
  Depression, drug abuse, smoking cessation during antenatal and neonatal development.
  Preeclampsia
  Obesity
  HPV & Pregnancy
  
  

• Gynecological Oncology
  Immunotherapy and ovarian cancer
  Biomarkers for early detection of ovarian cancer
  Pharmaceutical clinical trials
  Clinical Trials in Gynecology Oncology
  
  

• Reproductive Endocrinology
  Embryo culture conditions
  Factors affecting in Vitro fertilization outcome
  Oocyte physiology, fertility and smoking
  
  

• Laboratory of Molecular Medicine
  HPV in Cervical cancer, breast cancer and miscarriages
  AAV-based Immuno-gene therapy for HPV: cervical, breast and prostate cancers, CMV, Hepatitis
  Skin and CD34+ stem cell based gene therapy