The School of Medicine has partnered with the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute to fund 14 Principal Investigators an award to study various implications of COVID-19. Part of the funds, $350,000, were philanthropic gifts to the School of Medicine, and another $300,000 was funded by the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. The average award was $46,000. There was a tremendous response to the RFA, with over 50 applications.
The awardees are listed below:
| PI (alphabetical order) | Department Name | Title |
| Chatham, W. Walter | Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology | Early Identification and Treatment of Cytokine Storm Syndrome in COVID-19 |
| Davis, Randall | Department of Medicine; Department of Microbiology; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics | Defining Serologic and Neutralizing Humoral Immunity to COVID-19 |
| DeShane, Jessy | Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine | Human Lung Tissue Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection to Monitor Treatment Response |
| Feldman, Sue | Department of Medical Education; School of Public Health Department of Health Services Administration | HelpBeatCovid19: Crowdsourced COVID-19 Symptom Tracker |
| Goepfert, Paul | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | Establishment of a Biospecimen Repository to Enable SARS-CoV-2/COVID19 Research at UAB |
| Harrod, Kevin | Department of Anesthesiology | SARS-CoV-2 Interventions for Mitigating COVID-19. |
| Khodneva, Yulia | General Medicine Fellow | Baseline Use of Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) Inhibitors and the Risk of Severe Novel Coronavirus Infection (COVID19) |
| Larimer, Benjamin | Department of Radiology | Development of a Rapid and Scalable COVID-19 Antibody Epitope Mapping Platform by Phage Display |
| Leal, Sixto | Department of Pathology | Optimization of SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Testing Throughput and Prognostic Significance |
| Lennemann, Nicholas | Department of Microbiology | Fluorescent Cell-based Reporter Platform for Detecting SARS-CoV2 Infection |
| Petit, Chad | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Targeting nsp1 of SARS-CoV-2 for Antiviral Development |
| Randall, Troy Lund, Fran |
Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology; Department of Microbiology | Development of SARS-2 Recombinant Proteins for Diagnostics, Vaccine Testing and Research. |
| Rowe, Steve | Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine | A Ferret Model of COVID-19 Pathogenesis and Treatment |
| Zaky, Ahmed | Department of Anesthesiology | Inhalational Bitter Taste Receptors Agonists for the Treatment of SARS-COV-2 |