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UAB Awarded $11.5 Million to Explore New Ways to Test Youth for HIV and Link Them to Care “In America, one-third of all new HIV infections are in those under age 30," says Craig Wilson, M.D., a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics in the UAB School of Public Health. "We need to figure out ways to work with young people to help youth protect themselves and get needed treatment." The two new grants, both from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, are for UAB’s leadership and coordination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Intervention, a research network in 15 sites in the United States and Puerto Rico working to curb the epidemic. Migration’s Impact on the New SouthIn a new book co-edited by UAB Professor of History Colin Davis, Ph.D., historians, anthropologists and others examine the intersection of labor history and migration studies to explain the South’s recent dynamism in both urban and rural settings. Researcher Awarded $11.2 Million for Program to Reduce Child Mortality in Zambia Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Jeffrey S.A. Stringer, M.D., has been awarded a five-year, $11.2 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation African Health Initiative to design and implement a large-scale primary health care program to reduce child mortality in the sub-Saharan African nation of Zambia. UAB Seeks Volunteers for Study to Examine Testosterone Replacement in Older MenMen in the Birmingham area who are interested in participating in the trial should call the UAB study center at 205-934-2294. Men living within a 50-mile radius of Birmingham are especially encouraged to participate.
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UAB Researchers, Partners Persue "Greener" Power Generation
The UAB School of Engineering is leading research into the capture and storage of carbon, a process The Wall Street Journal recently named one of Five Technologies that Could Change Everything.
In this scenario, carbon dioxide is separated from combustion products at fossil-fuel power plants, transported through pipelines and injected into underground geological formations as a means to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
UAB researchers, working with Southern Company geologists and engineers, will help identify the rock layers that would best serve as cap rock to seal against upward migration or loss of sequestered carbon dioxide. The research is funded by a grant from the Department of Energy.
Molt-On-Demand Research Could Revolutionize Soft-Shell Crab Industry
Soft-shelled blue crabs are a delicacy enjoyed spring and early summer when the crustaceans naturally molt their hard outer shell in the wild, but the ability to manipulate molting could make the blue crab available to consumers year-round.
UAB researchers are close to unraveling intricate cellular pathways that control molting in blue crabs that would revolutionize the soft-shell crab industry and generate new jobs and profits for the coastal Southeast fishing industry now valued at nearly $50 million a year in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. |
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