Tiffany Miles, Ph.D., a researcher with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute, wants to understand barriers to addressing obesity and food insecurities in two east Arkansas communities — Marvell and Elaine. Miles, who’s also an instructor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Division of Nutrition, led a […]
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An interplay between prenatal and placental health and childhood growth patterns
The placenta, a temporary organ that supports a baby’s development during pregnancy, is crucial to fetal growth and development, supplying nutrients and oxygen, removing waste, and producing signaling factors. Exposures during pregnancy, like Mom’s environment and her physiology, can affect placental health, which in turn could have consequences for her baby’s health. A team of […]
Dietary fiber structure matters, maybe more than gut bacterial community
Eating different kinds of dietary fiber affects our microbiota, the bacteria that live in our guts, which can in turn affect our overall health. How these dietary fibers, found in fruits, vegetables, and grains, help beneficial gut bacteria grow and how these fibers break down into other bioactive metabolites that benefit the body is an […]
ACNC Investigator, Dr. Aline Andres is elected to the National Academy of Medicine
One of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, Aline Andres, Ph.D., RD, professor of pediatrics, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, recognized for her global leadership defining how exposures during pregnancy and lactation affect maternal-child outcomes. Dr. Andres and been instrumental in driving several of the ACNC’s rigorously conducted […]
Reviewing a role for polyphenols in breastmilk for healthy infant development
Polyphenols are a broad class of plant bioactive molecules found in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Existing and emerging evidence links healthy dietary patterns to maternal and child health benefits, and many healthy dietary patterns are high in polyphenol-containing foods. There is increasing interest in dietary bioactives such as polyphenols in breastmilk, their bioactivity and […]
ACNC Announces New Director
Dr. Colin Kay, Ph.D. joined the ACNC in 2023 as Professor of Developmental Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics and served as Director of Precision Health Research, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) and Scientific Director of the Metabolomics and Analytical Chemistry Research Core. Prior to joining the ACNC, Kay served as Distinguished Professor in the Plants […]
Child Temperament Shaped by Maternal Psychiatric Symptoms, Family Environment and Infant Feeding
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 […]
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.