UAB Faculty Development Grant Program awards nearly $100,000 to School of Medicine faculty
Written by Dorothy Efird
The UAB Faculty Development Grant Program has announced its annual faculty grants, awarding $99,991 for 10 School of Medicine faculty projects.
Steele to streamline faculty onboarding as assistant dean for Research Administration
Written by Kendra Carter
Chad Steele, Ph.D., professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, has been named assistant dean for Research Administration, a new position in the School of Medicine created to facilitate successful onboarding for faculty.
Professor Ravi Bhatia, M.D., is the next holder of the Martha Ann and David L. May Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, and Professor Edward W. Hook III, M.D., was chosen to be the inaugural holder of the Cobbs Endowed Professorship in Infectious Diseases.
National search secures top surgeon-scientist Herbert Chen M.D. to lead UAB Department of Surgery
Written by Kendra Carter
Herbert Chen, M.D., an internationally recognized surgeon-scientist and medical educator, has been named chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief of UAB Hospital.
Undergraduate, middle- and high-school students learn about health careers during the six-week programs offered by the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.
UAB researcher wins early-stage investigator award for epigenetics of substance abuse research
Written by Bob Shepard
A UAB researcher focusing on the epigenetics of drug abuse wins a significant funding award from the National Institutes of Health.
The drug inhibits the activity of a kinase enzyme called LRRK2, and it showed no pathology in rat lungs, kidneys or livers.
UAB among the first to enroll in national clinical trial for novel fecal incontinence treatment
Written by Tyler Greer
The LIBERATE Study will further investigate the Eclipse System, the first vaginal insert designed to provide bowel control.