Provost’s Innovator Awards
PIA funding is intended for exceptionally creative investigators who propose groundbreaking, innovative, high-impact projects that are likely to establish new clinical approaches or achieve rapid commercialization.
Proposals were reviewed by the UAMS and BioVentures Research Committee. Each PI was awarded $25,000.
Lisa Brents, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
College of Medicine
“Development of a Fetal Protective Agent Against Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder”
Lyle Burdine, M.D. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Transplant Surgery/Director of Organ Transplant
Department of Surgery
College of Medicine
“Interventional Radiologic Targeting of the Splenic PALS for in vivo Immune Cell Programming in Pigs”
J. Craig Forrest, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Medicine
“Developing Viral Vectors for Gammaherpesviruses”
Gresham Richter, M.D., FACS, FAAP
Professor, Vice Chair and Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
College of Medicine
“Patient-Centric Monitoring for Invasive Ventilation”
Pew Biomedical Scholars
The Pew Scholars program is a limited submission opportunity and only one submission can go forward from UAMS. Congratulations, Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D.! Dr. Stolarz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.