3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (574+ words) Neil Pfister, M.D., Ph.D., an associate scientist at the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology who leads the AI in Precision Medicine group, is one researcher working…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (272+ words) Willis’ laboratory focuses on early-life immunology, particularly bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a serious lung disease that affects premature infants. His research will examine how changes in immune cells during infancy may contribute to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (243+ words) These limitations can lead to missed opportunities for timely treatment in progressing patients or overdiagnosis and unnecessary antibiotic treatment in patients without true C. diff disease. Unnecessary treatment carries its own risks, including disruption of the gut microbiome, adverse drug effects…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (184+ words) Three years on from its launch in 2023, the UAB Research Strategic Initiative has reached an important transition point. This campuswide effort has led to improvements in operations, infrastructure, tools and coordination that have set a new standard for how UAB…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (488+ words) Taylor Wallen, M.D., an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, and Krystal Rivera, a Ph.D. candidate, published “Plasma Regulates Homeostatic Pulmonary Endothelial Signaling to Mitigate Vascular Leak Following Polytrauma and Hemorrhagic Shock” as co-first authors…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (510+ words) Jeremy Loberger, M.D.While hospitals nationwide have adopted the Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) framework to reduce unplanned extubations, the UAB and Children’s team recognized that lasting improvement would require going beyond national recommendations. That investment led to the creation of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (260+ words) Drug discovery is a vital part of healthcare, but it can be a painfully slow process. Corinne Augelli-Szafran, Ph.D., professor in the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, is all too familiar with the difficulties of this process. Augelli-Szafran…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (504+ words) “Here you are in the prime of your life, your 20s and 30s, and you are told that you have a chronic progressive disease which means you will likely need dialysis within your lifetime,” said Dana Rizk, M.D., professor in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (213+ words) As the new academic year gets underway, renovation on Volker Hall 5 has now concluded. The floor is fully open for student activity. The goal of these updates was to refresh the spaces students use often on VH5 and to bring the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (457+ words) Two researchers in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Pathology were recently awarded R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling $4.9 million. Daniel Tyrrell, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, recently received…...