The Center for Injury Science, founded in 1999, conducts research to improve trauma care.

Our mission is to promote injury prevention and to improve outcomes from injury at all stages of care, from the prehospital setting through to resuscitation, acute care and rehabilitation.

Our approach is cross-cutting and multidisciplinary.

Clinicians from many specialties work closely with epidemiologists, basic scientists, biostatisticians, health economists, health psychologists and methodologists in the Center for Injury Science.

The Center is organized into three units

In addition to these areas, the mission of the Center for Injury Science is focused on education. We are dedicated to training undergraduate students, postgraduate students, residents and fellows and supporting their research interests and endeavors.

Clinical Trials Unit Trauma Care Delivery Research Unit Basic Science & Translational Research Unit

Latest News and Updates

UAB to lead national resuscitation study in trauma patients
The study, an exception from informed consent trial, will compare whole blood to blood components in the treatment of traumatic injuries.
How to conduct trauma research with patients who cannot say yes
Social media has been a useful tool to inform a community about research studies that are exempt from informed consent protocols.
UAB/CSL Behring study to investigate blood-clotting agent as treatment for injured patients who are bleeding
The study seeks to determine whether prothrombin complex concentrate, a blood-clotting agent, could help save the lives of patients at risk for severe bleeding after injury.