Robert Eoff
Robert Eoff, PhD, is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Member Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. DNA replication is a complex and perilous undertaking for the cell because the risk of incurring insults to the genome is greatest when the double-helix is unwound for copying. My research team studies what happens […]
Alan Tackett
Alan Tackett, PH.D.Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Deputy Director of Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Scharlau Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, Ph.D. The University of Arkansas for Medical Science. In recent years, new immunotherapy drugs have revolutionized how clinicians treat patients with certain cancers like melanoma. For some patients, immunotherapy can effectively eliminate […]
Marjan Boerma
Marjan Boerma Ph.D. Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in radiation biology from Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2004 and followed this with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is currently a professor and the director of the Division of Radiation Health at UAMS. Her research […]
Judith Lynne Weber
Dr. Judith Lynne, National Committee Member NAIPI. Weber is director of the NIH-funded Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI), and a professor of Pediatrics in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Arkansas She is a childhood obesity prevention researcher […]
Lawrence Cornett
Dr. Lawrence Cornett is Professor and Director, Arkansas INBRE, Ph.D., University of California, Davis. National Committee Member NAIPI His research interests are focused primarily on the homeostatic roles of the neurohypophysial hormone vasotocin in the domestic chicken and secondarily on the regulation of adrenergic receptor gene expression in mammals. Regarding the actions of vasotocin, immunohistochemical […]
Kyle Quinn
Dr. Kyle Quinn received his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Beth Winkelstein. He then joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Irene Georgakoudi’s group. As a postdoc, he was awarded a Ruth L. […]
Mark Smeltzer
Dr. Mark Smeltzer completed post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. John J. Iandolo. It was in Dr. Iandolo’s lab that he was first introduced to Staphylococcus aureus as a bacterial pathogen. His goal during that time wasn’t so much to learn about S. aureus but rather to learn the experimental tools of molecular biology, […]