Department Mission
The mission of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology in the College of Medicine at UAMS is to carry out high quality basic biomedical research and to educate graduate and medical students in the mechanisms of biological processes at the molecular, cellular, and organ system levels.
News & Announcements
UAMS Research Team Upends Understanding of How Blood Clots Form; NIH Awards $2.5 Million for Further Study
A UAMS-led research team has found that blood clots form in puncture wounds similar to a skyscraper, with rooms and furnishings that scientists can now see. Published in Communications Biology, the discovery of the vaulted thrombus (blood clot) structure surprised researchers and is a big change from a long-held hypothesis.
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Summer Research Fellowship Student Iad Alhallak Published
Second-year medical student Iad Alhallak is the first author on the article “Breast adipose regulation of premenopausal breast epithelial phenotype involves interleukin 10,” just published in the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. Iad carried out part of the study as a recipient of the Endocrine Society Summer Research Fellowship. The senior author of the study is […]
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Amrita Khakurel is First Author on New Article
Second-year graduate student Amrita Khakurel (Cell Biology Track) is the first author of the article entitled “The Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) complex plays an essential role in the maintenance of the Golgi glycosylation machinery” in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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Congratulations to Department Graduates and INBRE/SURP Summer Students
We are pleased to honor our recent Ph.D. and Masters Graduates who received their degrees this Spring/Summer 2021.
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