The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive facility, is known as a leader in bringing scientific discoveries from laboratories to patients. It is home to more than 350 scientists and physician-scientists—many who are in the UAB Department of Microbiology. These scientists are focusing their research on the basic mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis.

An October 2014 US Airways article, “UAB: A Center for Healing,” features the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and is illustrated with a photograph of UAB Microbiology Department professor Christopher Klug, Ph.D.