Drew Sayer, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences, has been named the inaugural Ronald L. and David B. Allison Endowed Scholar. This award was established to provide support for junior faculty within the department who do not yet have RO1 funding from the National Institutes of Health.
The scholarship was created with the help of David B. Allison, Ph.D., dean of the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington. From 2003 – 2017, Allison served as director of the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC).