Posted on March 30, 2004 at 11:45 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Nine students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) recently participated in the seventh annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, March 19-20. The conference was sponsored by the World Health Organization.

The National Undergraduate Bioethics conference each year brings college students together to discuss and analyze the moral and legal implications of the medical and biotechnological revolution. The nine UAB students who attended the conference are members of the university’s Early Medical School Acceptance Program.

The UAB participants were freshmen Sheena Gupta, Yin Zhang and Qin Zhang, all of Vestavia, Anand Iyer of Anniston and Nandini Raghuraman of Tuscaloosa; sophomores Reema Hamid of Mobile, Vivek Kalia of Orlando, Florida, and Anish Shah of Athens, Georgia; and junior Matt Malone of Florence.