CONWAY, Ark. (November 26, 2013) – Hendrix student Dakota Pouncey was awarded the student poster award for first
place in cardiovascular research at the Southeast Regional IDeA Meeting
this month in Little Rock.
Pouncey is a junior biochemistry-molecular biology major
from Rogers, Ark.
His poster was titled "Identifying Potential
R/S-Warfarin Metabolite Biomarkers to Improve Anticoagulant Dosing
Strategies in Children."
Pouncey completed this work as a participant in the
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) under the supervision of Dr.
Grover Miller in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at
UAMS.
“My
work in Dr. Miller’s laboratory has been rewarding in that I have been able to
gain hands-on research experience that couldn’t be obtained in the classroom
and simply knowing that that our metabolite profiling approach could
potentially improve the lives of over 25 million Americans who undergo warfarin
anticoagulant therapy, " said Pouncey, who is continuing this investigation this
fall as an Odyssey undergraduate research project with Hendrix chemistry
professor Dr. Tom Goodwin as his faculty mentor.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s
The Best 378 Colleges,
Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.