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Faculty projects funded through 2019 Multi-PI Awards

Three School of Medicine faculty projects were recently funded as AMC21 2019 Multi-PI awardees.
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UAB recruiting for clinical trials to use exercise with seniors and joint replacement patients

UAB’s Center for Exercise Medicine has two exercise studies underway, one for patients needing joint replacement and one to boost muscle in seniors.
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Bridges to direct the CAMAC

S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will succeed Robert P. Kimberly, M.D., as director of the Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal & Autoimmunity Center.
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Genetic defense mechanism may offer biological clue to racial disparities in kidney disease

Genetic changes that protected their ancestors against fly-borne parasites may partly explain why African-Americans with lupus are up to five times more likely to develop end-stage kidney disease than those of European descent. This was the conclusion of a study presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C.
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