
Save the Date: BioVentures Innovation Day 2026
Join BioVentures Innovation Day 2026 to connect, explore healthcare innovation, and turn discoveries into real-world impact at UAMS.

Join BioVentures Innovation Day 2026 to connect, explore healthcare innovation, and turn discoveries into real-world impact at UAMS.

BioVentures celebrated CADET’s inaugural cohort with final pitches, awards, and hands-on training in biomedical entrepreneurship and commercialization.

The UAMS team, connected to the Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Honors Track (MIEHT), earned both the Biodesign Competition award and the People’s Choice Award for ARGUS, a project designed to better protect physicians during image-guided procedures.

Badge Bandit is a respiratory therapist multitool created by Tristan Saunders to improve clinical efficiency, streamline workflows, and support faster care in demanding healthcare settings.

Jeff Moran, Ph.D., CEO of PinPoint Testing LLC, will be the featured speaker at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2026, for the Health Sciences Innovation & Entrepreneurship (HSIE) Grand Rounds. His presentation, From Concept to Venture:

Applications are open for the AI Hackathon & HealthTech Startup Week at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, offering hands-on training, certifications, and $20,000 in prizes.

BioVentures joined the Governor’s Cup in Little Rock, supporting student entrepreneurship and innovation while celebrating emerging talent and the continued strength of Arkansas’s startup ecosystem.

Fatima Abbas and the NanoLit team advanced to the Governor’s Cup semifinals, marking a strong milestone in one of Arkansas’s leading collegiate entrepreneurship competitions.

Congratulations to UAMS inventors Dr. Robert Reis, Dr. Peter Crooks and Dr. Srinivas Ayyadevara on the issuance of a new patent for a promising approach to targeting protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease. Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease are often linked by one major biological challenge: the buildup of toxic protein aggregates in the brain and central nervous system. While many therapies focus on managing symptoms or addressing downstream effects, there remains a significant need for approaches that target protein aggregation more directly. This newly issued patent covers methods using combretastatin-A4 (CA4) and related analogs to prevent or reduce protein aggregation through compounds that bind glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). The technology represents a new therapeutic direction for aggregation-associated disorders and suggests a potential disease-modifying strategy across multiple neurodegenerative indications.

BioVentures, in partnership with ARise, brought together emerging innovators and entrepreneurs for the first Founder’s Forum, a program designed to support UAMS-affiliated startup founders and teams working to translate research into real-world

BioVentures presented its Innovation Awards during the 2026 UAMS Student Research Day, recognizing students whose research reflects creativity, scientific excellence, and an interest in translational science. Student Research Day is an annual

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