7-year-old Suki Bateh inspires UAB and Children’s to create Sarah Katherine Bateh Endowed Professorship in Rett Syndrome
Written by Bob Shepard
The Suki Foundation, Children’s of Alabama and UAB have established an endowed professorship in Rett syndrome.
Three UAB investigators have received innovative research grants for lung diseases from the National Institutes of Health.
Massoud Leesar, M.D., performed the first procedure Jan. 25, 2017, and that is good news for people who suffer strokes as a result of patent foramen ovale, or PFO.
Tuberculosis kills 1.8 million people a year, and 10 million more are infected. Development of host-cell directed therapies that could restore cellular function during M. tuberculosis infection, such as a “release and kill” strategy, could shorten drug treatment of TB patients.
The Best Medicine Show, hosted by the School of Medicine Student Senate and presented by UAB’s Departments of Medicine and Surgery, begins at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24 at the Lyric Theatre.