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  • UAB’s Porrett awarded R01 grant from the NIH for uterine transplantation research
    The award will continue until 2029 and totals about $3 million dollars in funding.
  • UAB graduate programs continue to shine in latest US News & World Report rankings
    Across its esteemed academic campus, UAB’s graduate programs continue to shine.
  • $18.5 million U19 grant will study B and T memory cells in transplanted lungs, uteruses and kidneys
    Indirect benefits could include how to lessen rejection of transplanted organs and damage to the transplanted tissue.
  • Eight UAB students will study abroad as 2024 Gilman Scholars
    Studying abroad as a Gilman Scholar helps students gain professional skills, build language proficiencies and develop knowledgeable perspectives of the world to help them succeed in their careers.
  • More than $82 million NIH grant to propel CCTS forward
    The Center for Clinical and Translational Science based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded four grants from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, part of the National Institutes of Health, totaling $82 million over seven years.
  • Bayles selected as American Chemical Society’s undergraduate liaison at 2024 Leadership Institute
    Bayles attended the 2024 ACS Leadership Institute, where he was chosen as the 2024 undergraduate student liaison, one of the only undergraduate student positions within the national organization.
  • Three research projects awarded funding from the Immunology Institute Pilot Project program
    The program seeks to support and foster multidisciplinary collaborations, especially between UAB clinicians and basic and physician scientists.
  • Renowned immunologist and four-decade UAB researcher Max Cooper, M.D., will deliver this year’s Marx Lecture
    Cooper recently won the Albert Lasker Award, known as “America’s Nobel Prize,” given to the living person considered to have made the greatest contribution to medical science.
  • Fran Lund, Ph.D., named an AAI Distinguished Fellow
    Lund is the fifth Distinguished Fellow from UAB named since 2019, a sign of the strength of immunology research at UAB.
  • Research volunteers needed
    A small blood donation can help UAB researchers and doctors learn how better to use immunology to treat disease.
  • Rheumatologists launch free phone-based app for patients with lupus
    The MyLupus app is a patient-friendly, patient-focused decision-aid tool for people from all backgrounds with moderate to severe lupus.
  • Type 1 diabetes: B cell-derived natural antibodies suppress autoimmune pathogenesis
    Vaccination of neonatal mice with group A Streptococcus promotes clonal expansion of B cells that produce antibody against GlcNAc. The association of reduced Type 1 diabetes risk after group A Streptococcus infection is dependent on these GlcNAc-specific B cells.
  • 2024 Mr. and Ms. UAB are John Goodman and Natalie Vital
    Started in 1981, the Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition is one of UAB’s longest-standing Homecoming traditions presented by the UAB National Alumni Society.
  • Flu: Interferon-gamma from T follicular helper cells is required to create lung-resident memory B cells
    Lung-resident memory B cells produced during influenza are long-living immune cells that migrate to the lungs from draining lymph nodes and lie in wait as early responders that can quickly react to future infections. They are key sentinels against subsequent viral variants.
  • Osteoporosis: UAB-led study approved for a $13.9 million award to investigate prevention of bone fractures
    The study, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, will compare two pathways of post-fracture patient care.