UAB AIDS Researcher Receives Award in Recognition of Notable Research

Beatrice Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine and co-director of UAB’s Center for AIDS Research, was honored by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) at its annual Freedom to Discover gala, held October 20 in New York City.

Posted on October 31, 2005 at 9:07 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Beatrice Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine and co-director of UAB’s Center for AIDS Research, was honored by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) at its annual Freedom to Discover gala, held October 20 in New York City.

Hahn was one of 13 researchers to receive the five-year, $500,000 unrestricted grants from BMS in support of “cutting-edge” research. She will use the funding to support her laboratory’s ongoing research into the origins and evolution of HIV and SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus).

All together, the company awarded $6.5 million in new grants to further scientists’ “freedom to discover” in seven fields of research: cancer, nutrition, neuroscience, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases and synthetic organic chemistry.