UAMS RESEARCHER RECEIVES UP TO $1.05 MILLION TO STUDY LYMPHATICS DURING LEISHMANIASIS, A NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 20 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release:

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July 20, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK - A researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded up to $1.05 million to study how to manage cutaneous leishmaniasis - a parasitic disease transmitted by bites from infected sandflies that can leave lifelong disfiguring scars.

Tiffany Sue Weinkopff, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, is the primary investigator on the project, which will receive the funds over three years from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of...