The winners of the first SPARC competition, an initiative between UAB Medicine and Medscape, will share $40,000 in grants for quality improvement projects.
UAB performs Deep South’s first HIV-positive kidney transplant from HIV-positive deceased donor
Written by Tyler Greer
Mississippi man transplanted at UAB is only the eighth HIV-positive to HIV-positive transplant recipient in the United States since implementation of the HOPE Act.
UAB named NIH clinical center for groundbreaking exercise trial to map molecular underpinnings of health benefits
Written by Christina Crowe
UAB’s Center for Exercise Medicine will join a key NIH consortium looking for the molecular changes that occur during and after exercise to advance the understanding of how physical activity improves and preserves health.
Neurobiology professor Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., becomes the second UAB faculty with membership in the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.
Funding from a National Eye Institute award to the UAB School of Optometry will advance eye care research.
UAB’s new emergency medicine fellowship facilitated a large-scale critical care and trauma training exercise in Kenya for surgical residents and general medicine interns.
UAB receives grant to study promising treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Written by Beena Thannickal
A key Leukemia & Lymphoma Society grant will provide an opportunity for a UAB researcher to develop a new immunotherapy treatment approach for the leukemia most prevalent in Western countries.
Helen Krontiras M.D., professor of Surgery and director of the UAB Breast Health Center, has been named director of the Division of Surgical Oncology.