An infant or child’s temperament influences their behavior and the way they interact with others. Newer research suggests that maternal affection and environmental factors, including feeding method, can influence infant temperament. Researchers at the ACNC investigated how maternal factors (affection and psychiatric symptoms) and child factors (environment and early nutrition) affected child’s temperament for the […]
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DOP Faculty Secure More Than $3 Million in New NIH Funding for Fatal Fungus
Infectious Diseases experts William Steinbach, M.D., and Praveen Juvvadi, Ph.D., are establishing a new research program at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute to study a fungus considered to be the leading cause of death in pediatric patients with weakened immune systems.
ACRI and Allergy-Immunology Faculty Take Part in Groundbreaking Trial
A recent clinical trial, sponsored and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and partly conducted at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), has discovered a groundbreaking treatment to help children and adults with potentially life-threatening food allergies better handle peanut, milk, egg, wheat, and tree nuts. The OUtMATCH study was published in The New England […]
DOP Research Featured in Cancer Journal
Ellen van der Plas, Ph.D. and researchers at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute took part in a nationwide, multi-center trial to examine the risk factors for neurocognitive impairment, emotional distress and poor quality of life in survivors of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma. Read about their findings here. Read the findings on PubMed.
Arkansas Children’s Research Institute Research Week
The inaugural ACRI Research Week was held May 15-19, 2023. UAMS pediatric residents had the opportunity to share their research during the ACRI Poster Symposium and network with the amazing researchers we have on campus! The invited scholar, Dr. Ashish Kumar gave an engaging and informative presentation on BRAF to the Future: Targeted Therapies for Histiocytic […]
Peanut Allergy Trial Includes Peds Faculty and ACRI
Dr. Stacie Jones is a co-author and site primary investigator (PI) at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) for a phase 3 trial of epicutaneous immunotherapy in toddlers with peanut allergy. The abstract for the findings states, “No approved treatment for peanut allergy exists for children younger than 4 years of age, and the efficacy […]