Joel Gordon, director of Winrock International’s Arkansas Innovation Hub in North Little Rock since last May, has resigned and a search is on for his replacement, according to the Hub and Hub initiator John Gaudin of North Little Rock. Errin Stanger, director of programs, events
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Applications for the initiative, called Health InnovatAR, to be managed by Jeff Stinson, director of the Fund for Arkansas’s Future, are due March 31. Six startups will be chosen; the accelerator will run from June 1 to Nov. 30. Health InnovatAR partners include Winrock, the Arkansas Heart Hospital, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and UAMS Bioventures, and is supported by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.
In an announcement by Winrock on Jan. 8, Bioventures president Nancy Gray was quoted as saying, “BioVentures is dedicated to creating a statewide infrastructure to support a growing biomedical research capacity in Arkansas,” and that Health InnovatAR would be an important part of that work.