Research Administration

Phaedra A Yount

Science Writer and Editor, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

Phone: (501) 364-2469

Ms. Yount has led ACHRI’s science writing and editing support program for the institute’s researchers since the program began in 2002. This program provides writing and editing services for grant applications, journal manuscripts, and other scientific documents. She reviews extramural and intramural grant applications for ACHRI researchers providing suggestions to improve overall presentation of text, figures, and tables. In addition, Ms Yount edits basic and clinical research manuscripts and critiques the documents’ adherence to journal guidelines. Ms. Yount is the ACHRI Web site's Webmaster and is overseeing its update. She also designs and composes the institute’s annual Scientific Report.

Prior to her arrival at ACHRI, Ms. Yount worked four years for a contractor writing and editing toxicology and carcinogenicity study reports for the NIH/NIEHS National Toxicology Program. Reports from this series to which she contributed won awards from the Society for Technical Communication in its technical publications competitions. Ms. Yount also worked in immunoparasitology and genetics research for eight years at three large universities with responsibilities as a laboratory manager for a majority of that time.

Key Publications

Gunnels SR, Carver PH, Harper LM, Serbus DC, Yount PA. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of dipropylene glycol (CAS No. 25265-71-8) in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice (drinking water studies). Natl Toxicol Program Tech Rep Ser. 2004 June;(511):7-257.

Gunnels SR, Harper LM, Leach LM, Serbus DC, Yount PA. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of indium phosphide (CAS No. 22398-90-7) in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice (inhalation studies). Natl Toxicol Program Tech Rep Ser. 2001 Jul;(499):7-340. PMID: 12087422

Elbein SC, Teng K, Yount P, Scroggin E. Linkage and molecular scanning analyses of MODY3/hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 alpha gene in typical familial type 2 diabetes: evidence for novel mutations in exons 8 and 10. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1998 Jun;83(6):2059-65. PMID: 9626139

Riggs MW, Stone AL, Yount PA, Langer RC, Arrowood MJ, Bentley DL. Protective monoclonal antibody defines a circumsporozoite-like glycoprotein exoantigen of Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites and merozoites. J Immunol. 1997 Feb 15;158(4):1787-95.
PMID: 9029117

Riggs MW, Yount PA, Stone AL, Langer RC. Protective monoclonal antibodies define a distinct, conserved epitope on an apical complex exoantigen of Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 1996 Sep-Oct;43(5):74S-75S. PMID: 8822870