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Join us on April 11-12th, 2024 at the Regions Field Ballroom for research presentations from leading national and local experts in neuroengineering and neurotechnology. Register at Neurogateways.com by Mar. 18, 2024. Abstract submission due by Feb. 29, 2024.

IRAP Industry Sponsored Clinical Trial Current Status Tool Course Now Available

The Office of Research would like to announce a new training opportunity, now available through the Campus Learning System: IRAP Industry Sponsored Clinical Trial Current Status Tool Course.

The course gives step-by-step instructions for checking the status of your Industry Sponsored Clinical Trial and takes around 20 minutes to complete. Users can enroll by clicking here. For additional training resources, visit the Office of Research Training Hub!

During the last semiannual review period, the Office of the IACUC noted a substantial increase in expired substance use incidents. There were 7 confirmed incidents of expired anesthetics and/or analgesics used in animals, and 5 of these incidents were reported to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) for NIH, because they involved federal funding.

It is imperative that labs routinely review their drug inventory to ensure materials used in animals are in date, and to plan for timely replacement prior to expiration. Routinely checking drug stocks not only ensures animal welfare and compliance with federal regulations, but also supports the validity and continuity of research. As a reminder, all materials used for relief of pain and/or distress (e.g., anesthetics, analgesics, euthanasia solution) must be in-date for any survival or non-survival procedure, and all other materials administered to animals for survival procedures/studies must be in-date.

For more details on expired substances please review the IACUC SOP for Expired Materials. (10/25/2023). If the use of expired materials continues to occur, the IACUC may require program-wide, mandatory inventory reporting and unannounced checks to ensure laboratory stocks are routinely monitored for expiration.

Research technology never stops improving. That means investigators have the opportunity to answer questions faster or in more detail than previously, or even approach scientific questions in ways they never could before. But keeping up with the latest advances is no easy task, even for an institution such as UAB, which received a record $774.5 million in research grants and extramural awards in fiscal year 2023.

That is why some of those successful UAB award applications are directed to specialized National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation programs that enable scientists to purchase new research technologies. The NIH’s Office of Research Infrastructure Programs directs the S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs, which “support purchases of state-of-the-art commercially available instruments to enhance research of NIH-funded investigators.” Meanwhile, the NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program “serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training.”

Here are four recent tools brought to UAB through S10 or MRI funding. Each of the powerful instruments below is being used by researchers across campus and beyond.

The COERE education and training programs are anchored by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Research Training Award (T32), continuously funded since 2002. This full-time multidisciplinary mentored research training program supports postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral trainees in health services research and is led by Program Directors Mike Mugavero, MD, MHSc, and Emily Levitan, ScD. Our research and training base includes mentors and trainees across UAB Schools including Business, Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and the College of Arts and Science.

We seek candidates interested in conducting AHRQ-mission aligned research with AHRQ priority populations who aspire to become change agents who advance healthcare outcomes and equity. Until 5:00 PM CST, December 1, 2023, the program will be accepting applications for open predoctoral and postdoctoral positions with a start date of July 2024.

Join the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago for RSNA 2023 109th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. Access everything you need to navigate RSNA 2023 with Meeting Central! Browse programming, build your agenda and prepare for radiology’s most important week with a wide variety of attendee resources. Register for RSNA 2023 and begin exploring Meeting Central today!

Each year, scientists from around the world congregate to discover new ideas, share their research, and experience the best the field has to offer. Attend so you can: present research, network with scientists, attend session and events, and browse the exhibit hall. Join the nearly half a million neuroscientists from around the world who have propelled their careers by presenting an abstract at an SfN annual meeting — the premier global neuroscience event.

The Center for Clinical & Translational Science (CCTS) looks forward to convening research faculty and trainees in just a few short weeks for the CCTS Translational Training Symposium. The event, held in Biloxi, Mississippi, Sept. 27-29, brings together some of the Tri-State CCTS Partner Network’s most exceptional scientists, ranging from students to seasoned professionals, to network and learn together. Attendees will participate in training sessions and workshops where they will discuss their diverse expertise to bridge the gap between discovery and application. Click the link below to learn the top five things to look forward to at the 2023 CCTS Translational Training Symposium.

Research requires materials from the largest pieces of equipment to the smallest microcentrifuge tubes. When there are extra materials, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers send them to the UAB Surplus Warehouse for proper processing and disposal. While other researchers can comb through the supplies and take them back to their labs, it’s been a tedious task as it can’t be done online. UAB Sustainability has partnered with a shared resource platform – Rheaply – to make sharing supplies as easy as a click of a button.