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Accelerating Healthcare Entrepreneurship
in Arkansas

Empowering Arkansas entrepreneurs in healthcare and health tech. Receive comprehensive support and networking opportunities to accelerate your venture. Apply now to join the 2024 cohort and shape the future of healthcare entrepreneurship. 

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Make a difference by developing technology-driven solutions to enhance healthcare infrastructure, expand access to prenatal and postnatal care, and empower women with the tools they need for better health outcomes.

Recent technology:

Gene expression profiling based identification of genomic signatures of high-risk multiple myeloma

method of gene expression profiling to identify genomic signatures linked to survival specific for a disease and a kit that can be used for performing such a method. Also disclosed herein is the use of such a method in classifying the disease into subsets, predicting clinical outcome and survival of an individual, selecting treatment for an individual suffering from a disease, predicting post-relapse risk and survival of an individual, correlating molecular classification of a disease with genomic signature defining the risk group or a combination thereof.

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Melampomagnolide B dimers

The present disclosure provides dimers of melampomagnolide B (MMB), including carbamate, carbonate, succinic amide, ester and carboxamide dimers of MMB. These derivatives are useful for treating cancer in humans, in particular in treating leukemia, including acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

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Our DNA

BioVentures was established as a formal outgrowth of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences‘ (UAMS) interest in promoting a biomedical technology industry for Arkansas and translating its research into products that benefit human health.

UAMS established BioVentures to maximize global, industrial interaction with the University of Arkansas faculty, as well as to facilitate technology transfer, the development of startup companies that are based on technology developed at UAMS, and contributions to Arkansas’ economic development.

BioVentures links the research minds at UAMS to global markets in order to advance Arkansas’ scientific and economic development.

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401 South Cedar Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72205

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(501) 686-6696

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bioventures@uams.edu