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HSIE scholars win UA pitch competition

Four HSIE scholars won the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Arkansas Seed Funding Pitch Competition, which took place in October. First place went to Gene MassID, whose team members included Megan Reed and Julia Tobacyk, both UAMS HSIE Postdoctoral Fellows. They won a $2,000 prize for future research and development of a diagnostic tool that will personalize the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain cancer. Among the 10 teams that received funding in the fall edition of the competition, there was also SiloLink, with the participation of HSIE scholars Kindann Fawcett, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Tiffany Miles, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences Department at UAMS. SiloLink, which won a $1,000 prize, is developing a tool that will gather behavioral data to develop health interventions for rural residents affected by food insecurity. This interdisciplinary team plans to use its funding to test the software it has created. Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HSIE) Training Program for Postdoctoral Fellows is an initiative that aims to help the next generation of health scientists transform their discoveries into benefits for health care, cosponsored by TRI and Bioventures. Without the HSIE program, we would not have made the necessary connections to bring our team’s elaborate and diverse skillset into the transnational research space, which is a career aspiration for most of us in this program. Kindann Fawcett, Postdoctoral Fellow at UAMS. You can read more about the pitch competition and the other teams in this post.

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Apparatus, system, and method of processing biopsy specimens

A biopsy processing system designed to prevent lodging and possible loss of the tissue specimen for analysis. The system includes a biopsy container having a longitudinal wall forming an internal compartment, a biopsy bag attached to an inner surface of the container, a cassette for receiving the biopsy bag, and an automated system for removing the biopsy bag from the biopsy container and placing the biopsy bag in the cassette.

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Methods for making tocoflexols and analogues thereof

Methods for the synthesis of tocoflexols of Formula (I) and (II) and a number of related tocol analogs are provided herein. The methods are economical and amenable to large scale production and can be performed using either pure of partially purified tocotrienols as the starting material.

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Apparatus, system, and method of processing biopsy specimen

A biopsy pipette with a filter attached in an internal compartment of a pipette designed to prevent lodging and possible loss of the tissue specimen for analysis. A biopsy test tube may be provided with a biopsy bag attached in the internal compartment of the test tube. Further, a biopsy cassette may be provided with an opening configured to receive a pipette. An automated and non-automated system and method of using the biopsy pipette, biopsy test tube, and biopsy cassette in the processing of biopsy specimen is also disclosed.

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Hapten compounds and compositions and uses thereof

The invention generally relates to hapten compounds comprising either (+)methamphetamine or (+)amphetamine conjugated to a linker. Generally speaking, hapten compounds of the invention may be used to elicit an immune response to one or more of (+)methamphetamine, (+)amphetamine, or (+)MDMA.

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Modulation of the activity of an interleukin 17 receptor-related protein, EVI27, and uses thereof

The present invention describes the cloning and molecular and cellular characterization of a novel protein with homology to the IL-17 receptor. The gene was cloned by virtue of its proximity to a common site of retroviral integration in a murine acute myeloid leukemia. The gene described herein possibly codes for a novel interleukin receptor that binds an as yet unidentified cytokine ligand, and may be useful in cancer diagnostics and therapies that rely on immune system modulation.

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