February 3, 2000

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Dr. Carlton J. Young, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been awarded a $365,400 grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Minority Medical Faculty Development Program.

Young is a general surgeon in UAB’s division of transplantation. The grant will be used to study the body’s tendency to reject donor kidneys and to develop clinical markers of chronic rejection. He also will work toward developing ways to thwart the rejection process.

The Philadelphia native joined UAB in 1997 following two years on the faculty of the University of Arizona. He graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University in 1983 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. Young attended Villanova on a track scholarship and was named to the NCAA Academic All-American 1st team, among other honors. In 1987, he received the doctor of medicine degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was selected for the William Hallsted Outstanding Surgery Award.

Young completed a general surgery internship/residency as well as a research fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, and a clinical and research fellowship in organ transplantation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At UAB, along with other duties, he is a Minority Medical Education Program Mentor.