Bobby Jack Armstrong’s 11-year fight against head and neck cancer ended in 2012, but the daughters of the Montgomery businessman and community leader are determined to fight their own battle in his memory.
UAB Hospital is the first in Alabama to offer the Nanostim leadless pacemaker for patients with bradycardia.
UAB Cancer Center researcher receives grant to support pediatric brain tumor research
Written by Beena Thannickal
Pediatric cancer researcher Gregory Friedman, M.D., receives $40,000 grant to fight brain cancer in children.
Study shows how brain tumor cells move and damage tissue, points to possible therapy
Written by Bob Shepard
A federally funded study shows how invading glioma cells disrupt brain connections and break down the blood brain barrier.
Crawford Downs, Ph.D., has been named chair-elect of the Animals in Research Committee of the Association for Research in Vision Science and Ophthalmology.
I was very pleased recently to announce that Dr. Mitch Cohen will be our next chair of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief at Children’s of Alabama, starting Sept. 1. He will succeed Dr. Sergio Stagno, a tremendous statesman and leader in pediatrics who will remain on faculty where he will continue to care for patients and influence current and future pediatricians.
UAB launches three initiatives to stimulate personalized medicine care, research
Written by Clinton Colmenares
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Personalized Medicine Institute, the Institute for Informatics and the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine.
UAB School of Medicine, HudsonAlpha create joint Center for Genomic Medicine
Written by Clinton Colmenares
The UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine will span human genome research with clinical care.
Neurologist David Geldmacher, M.D., is launching a new clinical effort to prepare a personalized dementia risk assessment for people concerned about their risk for developing memory problems as they age.
Anthony Nicholas, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurology, is a co-editor of the first textbook on the subject of protein deimination in human health and disease.