In broad terms, the Vice Chancellor for Research, Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., provides leadership in formulating and carrying out strategies to expand campus-wide research and collaborative activity.

Under her leadership, the UAMS Research Committee (URC), which includes research faculty members from all UAMS colleges, meets monthly to discuss research policy, processes, and strategic planning, grant submission, and collaborative research.

The Office of Research and Innovation (in conjunction with the College of Medicine) also hosts a quarterly Showcase of Medical Discoveries scientific poster and collaboration event to familiarize clinician and basic science faculty members with each others’ research and areas of interest. To learn more about various research foci at UAMS, you can check out past Showcase events.

Follow the exciting work our research faculty members are doing in the Arkansas Research in Medicine (ARM) videos where exciting advances are described in plain language.

The various UAMS research support units are listed below.

• BioVentures
  – Nancy Gray, Ph.D., Director
• Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine (intranet site)
  – Mildred Randolph, D.V.M., Director
• IACUC (intranet site)
  – Jerry Ware, Ph.D., Director
• Institutional Review Board
  – Edith Paal, M.S. Journ, M.P.H., CIP, CHRC, Director
• Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
  – Suzanne Alstadt, D.P.A., CRA, Director
• Office of Research Information Systems
  – Rebecca Nickleson, MSHS, CRA, Director
• Office of Research Regulatory Affairs
  – Tom Wells, M.D., Director
• Office of Sponsored Programs Administrative Network
  –Ty Stephens, CPA, MBA, Director
  – Science Communications (SciCom) – Kerry Evans, Ph.D., ELS, Director
• Translational Research Institute
  – Laura James, M.D., Principal Investigator, TRI Director, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Clinical and Translational Research