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Holiday Discounts Won’t Be as Deep or Numerous in 2009 "Retailers have bought only merchandise that they think offers real value to customers, and they have bought in fewer quantities to ensure entire inventories can be moved without the need for major price cuts," says Mickey Gee, M.A., the executive-in-residence in the UAB Department of Marketing, Industrial Distribution and Economics. UAB, Jubilant Organosys and Southern Research Enter Into Drug Discovery Joint Venture The three today announced a joint venture that will focus on leveraging their collective innovation and enabling technologies in the areas of oncology, metabolic disease and infectious diseases. It is a unique U.S.-India arbitraged and leveraged partnership that will accelerate the development of affordable therapies for patients worldwide. Body Weight and Other Illnesses Do Not Explain Racial Disparities in Colon Cancer Survival A new UAB study shows that although body mass index and co-existing medical conditions are independent predictors of poor survival for all patients, these factors do not explain the increased risk of death associated with African-Americans. New Virus Disguised as Social Security Administration Download The UAB Spam Data Mine has uncovered a new spam campaign that uses false e-mails made to look like messages from the Social Security Administration to steal Social Security numbers and download viruses onto victims’ home computers. “These cyber criminals are now preying on victims’ concerns over money, promising Social Security payouts and tax breaks to victims that sign in to the criminals’ fake Social Security Web pages,” says Gary Warner, UAB director of research in computer forensics.
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Researchers Discover Antibody Receptor Identity, Propose Renaming Immune-System Gene Previously, researchers who had identified this gene thought they were dealing with a molecule that regulated cell death and they named it “toso” – a reference to the Japanese medicinal sake often drunk on New Year’s Day to symbolize a long life. But the toso name is inaccurate, as were many of the earlier descriptions of this gene’s function, says Hiromi Kubagawa, M.D., a professor in the UAB Department of Pathology and the lead study author.
This discovery sheds new light on infection control and immune disorders and is such a crucial part of immunology that UAB researchers, in conjunction with Japanese researchers, are asking that the gene linked to this antibody receptor be renamed to better describe its role in early immune responses. The new findings are reported online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine and in the publication’s Nov. 23 print edition.
UAB Honors Student Wins Clinton Scholarship to Study in Middle East
University Honors student Grace Benton will spend spring 2010 studying at the American University in Dubai (AUD) in the United Arab Emirates as a William Jefferson Clinton Scholar. This is a significant step toward her goal of becoming a legal adviser or consultant for a negotiating team in the Middle East or a human-rights group.
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