News & Events - Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology

Three projects funded through annual AMC21 Multi-Investigator Program Awards

UAB Heersink School of Medicine has awarded three grants for the latest annual Multi-Investigator Program Award cycle. The 2022/2023 AMC21 Multi-PI Awards, which provide grant funding of $150,000 per year for two years, were awarded to Javier Neyra, M.D., Carlos Orihuela,[…]

New study details inflammation in early stages of Parkinson’s disease

The findings indicate that inflammation is present in the brain early in the disease’s progression, but how inflammation affects disease progression remains unknown.

Faculty honored at 2022 Argus Awards ceremony

Medical students honored their outstanding mentors, professors, courses, and course directors at the annual Argus Awards Ceremony on Friday, Jan. 6.

Osteoarthritis: Multi-ancestry analysis reveals novel genetic loci associated with the disease

The first large multi-ancestry genetics study of osteoarthritis, or OA, has found 10 novel OA-associated genetic loci, and results showed some of the OA-associated regions are robustly found in every population ancestry studied.

UAB Heersink School of Medicine granted full LCME accreditation at the highest level possible

The Heersink School of Medicine has achieved eight years of accreditation — the highest level available for medical schools across the U.S. — by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education after a rigorous two-year process.

New Research Faculty Introduction

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine Office of Research introduces new faculty for Summer and Fall 2022. Please join Heersink School of Medicine and the Office of Research in welcoming these new faculty.

Fecal microbial transplants show lack of predictability when no prior antibiotic treatment is given to recipient

This finding suggests utility of treatments before fecal microbial transplants to reduce recipient microbial communities. This would help donor microbial strains dominate in the recipient.

Protein kinase CK2 has key role in killer T cells during infection by Listeria monocytogenes

Experiments reveal that a catalytic subunit of CK2, called CK2α, is an important regulator of mouse CD8+ T cell activation, metabolic reprogramming and differentiation, both in vitro and in a mouse-infection model by the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.

Kidney resident macrophages have distinct subpopulations and occupy distinct microenvironments

This novel finding will help guide successful therapeutic design and strategies for acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.

O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center awards $950,000 in cancer-related research grants

O’Neal Invests funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related projects to do key preliminary work to enable competitive extramural applications.

Latest Headlines