Faculty

The Joint UA Little Rock/UAMS Bioinformatics Graduate Program involves many different disciplines such as biostatistics, information science, computer science, omics, life sciences and a wide array of medical specialties. Consequently we have participating faculty representing many different areas of expertise.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Name	Affiliation	Email
Behjatolah Karbassi	UAMS	[email protected]
Grover P. Miller	UAMS	[email protected]
Donald Mock	UAMS	[email protected]
Kevin Raney	UAMS	[email protected]

Bioinformatics and Omics (e.g., Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics)

Name	Affiliation	Email
Marico Bryant-Howe	Community Health Centers of Arkansas (CHCA)	[email protected]
Galina Glazko	UAMS	[email protected]
Renny Lan	UAMS Department of Pediatrics	[email protected]
Intawat Nookaew	UAMS	[email protected]
Alan Tackett	UAMS	[email protected]
Raj Vinay	UAPB	[email protected]
Karl Walker	UAPB	[email protected]
Philip Williams	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Mary Yang	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Biomedical Informatics

Name	Affiliation	Email
Hari Eswaran	UAMS	[email protected]
Donald Johann	UAMS	[email protected]
Se-Ran Jun	UAMS	[email protected]
Fred Prior	UAMS	[email protected]
David W. Ussery	UAMS	[email protected]

Biostatistics

Name	Affiliation	Email
William H. Baltosser	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Hassan Elsalloukh	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Eric R. Kaufmann	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Cancer Research

Name	Affiliation	Email
Thomas Kieber-Emmons	UAMS	[email protected]

Cheminformatics

Name	Affiliation	Email
Robert Belford	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Computational Biology and the Biological Life Sciences

Name	Affiliation	Email
Nawab Ali	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
John Bush	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Stephen Grace	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Qingfang He	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Mariya Khodakovskaya	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Fusheng Tang	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Wei Zhao	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Computer Sciences

Name	Affiliation	Email
Chia-Chu Chiang	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Xiuzhen Huang	Arkansas State	[email protected]
Mariofanna Milanova	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Engineering Systems and Technology

Name	Affiliation	Email
Kamran Iqbal	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Srikanth Pidugu	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Information Sciences

Name	Affiliation	Email
Nitin Agarwal	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Dan Berleant	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Serhan Dagtas	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Richard Segall	Arkansas State	[email protected]
M. Eduard Tudoreanu	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Ningning Wu	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
Xiaowei Xu	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Information Quality

Name	Affiliation	Email
Elizabeth Pierce	UA Little Rock	[email protected]
John Talburt	UA Little Rock	[email protected]

Longevity and Aging

Name	Affiliation	Email
Srinivas Ayyadevara	UAMS	[email protected]
Robert J. S. Reis	UAMS	[email protected]

Microbiology and Immunology

Name	Affiliation	Email
Boris Zybaylov	UAMS	[email protected]

National Center For Toxicological Research (FDA)

Name	Affiliation	Email
Richard Beger	NCTR	[email protected]
Minjun Chen	NCTR	[email protected]
Hong Fang	NCTR	[email protected]
Huixiao Hong	FDA	[email protected]
Tucker Patterson	NCTR	[email protected]
Shraddha Thakkar	NCTR	[email protected]
William Slikker	NCTR	[email protected]
Weida Tong	NCTR	[email protected]

Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences

Name	Affiliation	Email
Steve Barger	UAMS	[email protected]

Ophthalmology

Name	Affiliation	Email
Joseph Chacko	UAMS	[email protected]

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curtis L. Lowery	UAMS	[email protected]

Pediatrics

Name	Affiliation	Email
Kartik Shankar	UAMS	s[email protected]

Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Drug Design

Name	Affiliation	Email
Philip Breen	UAMS	[email protected]
Cesar Compadre	UAMS	[email protected]
Peter Crooks	UAMS	[email protected]
Jerry A. Darsey	UA Little Rock	j[email protected]
Eric Peterson	UAMS	[email protected]

Physiology and Biophysics

Name	Affiliation	Email
Frank Simmen	UAMS	[email protected]
Kottayil Varughese	UAMS	[email protected]

Public Health

Name	Affiliation	Email
Ping-Ching Hsu	UAMS	[email protected]
Mohammed S. Orloff	UAMS	[email protected]
Songthip Ounpraseuth	UAMS	[email protected]
Paula K Roberson	UAMS	[email protected]

Radiation Health

Name	Affiliation	Email
Marjan Boerma	UAMS	[email protected]