ARKANSAS: UAMS, UA and Arkansas Children’s Research Institute Collaborate to Support Women’s Health Research in Arkansas

Aug. 5, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) are collaborating on a yearlong project to make decades of maternal health research readily available for future researchers.

The project is funded by a $310,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the form of a supplemental award to Lawrence E. Cornett, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.

Cornett directs the Arkansas IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program, which since 2001 has been building a biomedical research infrastructure across the state that includes programs for undergraduate students and faculty.

The $310,000 award is a supplement to the five-year $18.4 million NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) grant that continues the Arkansas INBRE program. The grant supplement will allow scientists at UA Fayetteville and ACRI to collaborate on the development of software tools and analytical processes to streamline the production and analysis of a large maternal health dataset that ACRI has been collecting.