CNR Collaborations
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center (AMC)
The UAB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center (AMC) is based in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. The AMC is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center and serves as the focal point for fundamental and clinical research in arthritis, autoimmunity, and musculoskeletal diseases. The center is recognized, nationally, and internationally as a leading program integrating fundamental research with clinical care, advancing the development of new diagnostics/therapeutics, and developing the next generation of investigators.
Center for Aging (CFA)
The UAB CFA is a world leader in creating and using knowledge that will optimize function, enhance management of illness, and reduce health disparities among older adults. The Center involves an interdisciplinary community of more than 200 faculty members and staff working together to promote the health and well-being of older persons and their families research; training students and faculty to conduct research; educating students and professionals; and supporting community programs and specialty patient care.
Center for Aids Research (CFAR)
The CFAR at the University of Alabama at Birmingham provides, supports, and encouraged a highly interactive, multidisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to the study of HIV and AIDS. The CFAR Core facilities support and promote multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS research efforts.
Injury Control Research Center (ICRC)
The Mission of the UAB Injury Control Research Center is to help the nation achieve a significant reduction in the rate of injuries and their resulting deaths and disabilities, especially in the southeastern United States. Our mission follows directly from the injury prevention related goals of Healthy People 2010: to reduce injuries, disabilities and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence; and, correspondingly, is consistent with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s goal of reducing injuries and their resulting deaths and disabilities.
Center for Emerging Infections & Emergency Preparedness (CEIEP)
The CEIEP serves to enhance the core areas of basic/fundamental research, translational research, clinical research, population and behavioral research, computer modeling and simulation, as well as training and education surrounding biodefense, emerging infections, emergency medical care, and public health disaster preparedness in Alabama and across the world.
Center for Health Promotion (CHP)
The Center for Study in Community Health Center focuses on reducing health risks among underserved populations throughout the state of Alabama and plays a leading role in the development of community-based research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a UAB University-wide Institutional Research center, the Center for the Study of Community Health offers a unique prevention research environment that includes faculty from a cross section of over 130 clinicians, researchers, health-related professionals, social and behavioral scientists, and community leaders, who are setting new standards in the state of Alabama and around the world.
Center for Clinical & Translational Research (CCTS)
The mission of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science is to transform UAB’s research infrastructure – from preclinical research to bench-to-bedside translation to community implementation. We are doing this by connecting researchers and providing them with access to resources and services, by training the next generation of researchers and research teams, and by making the community our partner in clinical and translational research.
Center for the Study of Community Health (CSCH)
The Center for Study in Community Health Center focuses on reducing health risks among underserved populations throughout the state of Alabama and plays a leading role in the development of community-based research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a UAB University-wide Institutional Research center, the Center for the Study of Community Health offers a unique prevention research environment that includes faculty from a cross section of over 130 clinicians, researchers, health-related professionals, social and behavioral scientists, and community leaders, who are setting new standards in the state of Alabama and around the world.
Center for Outcomes & Effectiveness Research & Education (COERE)
The COERE offers integrated scientific expertise and experience in all areas of outcomes and effectiveness research, including: quality measurement, outcomes measurement and technology assessment, decision analytic modeling, outcomes management and tracking, clinical guideline development and implementation, retrospective claims data analysis, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis.
Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC)
For more than 25 years, the UAB CCC has made significant contributions to improved cancer treatments as the premier facility in Alabama and the Southeast. With hundreds of physicians delivering quality cancer care and engaged in cutting-edge research, the Center also serves as the focal point for superb training for medical students, residents, nurses, and allied health professionals.The CCC has pioneered advances in chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and nutrition. Today, the Center's research activities are concentrated in nine key areas: immunology, structural biology, virology, molecular genetics, experimental therapeutics, women's cancers, neuro-oncology, cancer prevention and control, and chemo-prevention.
Diabetes Research Training Center (DRTC)
The Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) focuses on developing new methods to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure diabetes and its complications. The DRTC is a multi-disciplinary operation with faculty researchers from UAB's Schools of Health Professions, Medicine, and Public Health, among other units. It operates in collaboration with the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center to promote excellence in diabetes research and patient care. The DRTC supports research in the areas of pathology, animal physiology, human biology, metrics and health services research, and community research. It is one of six NIDDK-sponsored diabetes research and training centers in the U.S.
Edward R. Roybal Center for Translational Research in Aging and Mobility (CTRAM)
The focus of the UAB Center for Research on Applied Gerontology is to develop and evaluate interventions which will allow older individuals to remain independent and to experience a high quality of life. Specifically, our program seeks to improve those visual, attentional and cognitive functions which decline at varying rates among older adults, and which are particularly relevant to maintaining functional abilities such as mobility and driving skills.
Minority Health & Disparity Research Center (MHRC)
The Minority Health & Research Center (MHRC) is a comprehensive educational, research and community outreach center focused on eliminating the health disparities of racial/ethnic minorities.
Sparkman Center for Global Health
The mission of the Sparkman Center for Global Health is to contribute to solutions of health problems in developing countries through graduate-level public health education, research, and training programs. These programs are organized collaboratively with academic institutions, international agencies, and health ministries within the host country. Additionally, the Center works to enhance the capacity of the UAB community to engage, prepare, and support current and future health professionals through a global health agenda.
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