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Dr. Bellido

Department Mission Statement

The mission of our department is to carry out high quality basic biomedical research and educate students in the mechanisms of biological processes at organ systems levels.

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Hayley Sabol working in Dr. Bellido's Lab

Students

Our Ph.D. students work directly with our faculty on exciting research opportunities.

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Dr. Bellido with Arkansas governor and others

Welcome Dr. Bellido!

Teresita Bellido, Ph.D., an internationally known leader in bone research, is the new chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

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News and Announcements

2026 Student Research Day Bhuvan award winners!

March 12, 2026 | sbryant

Congratulations to Anisha Neupane for placing third in the Bhuvan Award for Excellence in Biochemistry Graduate Research at the 2026 UAMS Student Research Day. Her poster presented new findings from the Allen Laboratory on the signaling events of toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8). She received a cash prize of $250!

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Kyrilos Sadaka wins People’s Choice Award at 3MT semi-finals!

March 5, 2026 | sbryant

Kyrilos Sadaka, formerly a summer student and currently an M1 student in Dr. Bagchi’s lab won the popular People’s Choice Award at the 3MT semi-finals on March 3rd. This contest was for students from the College of Medicine, College of Public Health, College of Health Professions, College of Pharmacy, and College of Nursing at UAMS. […]

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Brian Storrie’s Retirement

February 6, 2026 | sbryant

On Thursday February 5th, 2026, Dr. Brian Storrie presented his seminar titled: “Leveraging Blood Flow Dynamics to Give Two Different Platelet Responses to the Same Drug”

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Deck The Doors

December 19, 2025 | sbryant

The admin team wanted to have some holiday fun for the Holidays. We did a “Deck the Doors” contest. Each lab had to decorate their doors in creative fun ways. We also provided lunch for the department. We wanted to show them how much we appreciate them and all their hard work.

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