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Robel receives Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeFebruary 11, 2025Dr. Stefanie Robel, associate professor in the UAB Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB), is a recipient of the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship 2024.
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Sun wins a highly competitive, five-year NIH Director’s Pioneer awardOctober 9, 2024The National Institute on Drug Abuse award is designed to stimulate innovation and potentially transformative research from early stage investigators.
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Heersink School of Medicine welcomes new Center for Integrative Structural BiologyJuly 31, 2024UAB has committed to a significant leap forward in biomedical research by approving the Center for Integrative Structural Biology during the June 2024 University of Alabama System Board of Trustees...
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Tiny deletion in heart muscle protein briefly affects embryonic ventricles but has long-term effects on adult atrial fibrillationJuly 24, 2024These findings in zebrafish and human heart muscle cells have clinical implications for patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Two UAB students selected as Goldwater Scholars 2024April 16, 2024The Goldwater Program received 1,353 nominations from 446 institutions this year, and the winners will receive a scholarship covering tuition, housing, fees and books.
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Heersink School of Medicine receives over $610 million in research funding for 2023April 10, 2024The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine saw great success in acquiring research funding in 2023, making significant strides in securing resources to adva...
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International PhD student’s educational journey culminates at UABDecember 7, 2023Green will graduate with his doctoral degree in biology from UAB on Dec. 8.
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Faculty honored at 2023 Argus Awards ceremonyNovember 29, 2023On Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, students from Heersink School of Medicine gathered to celebrate faculty, courses, and course directors at the annual Argus Awards Ceremony.
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Heersink School of Medicine welcomes 13 new endowed chairs and professorshipsNovember 27, 2023Anupam Agarwal, M.D., dean of the Heersink School of Medicine, welcomed 13 esteemed faculty members, their families, and Heersink School of Medicine leaders to the Wallace Tumor Institute on N...
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Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonizationOctober 12, 2023Researchers found 19 Bacteroides vulgatus genes that were unique to three strains that show early engraftment in patients after a fecal transplant, as opposed to seven strains that did not show ear...
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UAB graduate built an anatomy study hub for her master’s degree. Now in med school, she is putting it to use.August 11, 2023Hunter Caroline Davies will receive her master’s degree in anatomical science at UAB’s summer commencement Aug. 11. But she is already back in the classroom as part of the Heersink School of Me...
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HaoSheng Sun named a Freeman Hrabowski scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical InstituteJune 15, 2023The 31 new scholars from 22 U.S. institutions are all outstanding early career faculty in science who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields and advance diversity, equity and...
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UAB Medicine leadership programs celebrate more than 100 participantsMay 17, 2023In the last several years, UAB Medicine and Heersink School of Medicine have worked to bring leadership development to faculty and staff through the UAB Medicine Institute for Leadership and Moment...
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How interleukin-6 helps prevent allergic asthma and atopy by suppressing interleukin-2 signalingMay 5, 2023Knowledge of this previously unrecognized mechanism may aid therapy for patients with interleukin-6 signaling mutations and hyper-IgE Syndrome, or HIES.
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New DEAL program recognizes and develops UAB administrative professionalsApril 26, 2023UAB holds its administrative professionals in the highest regard. April 26, 2023, is Administrative Professionals Day – allowing us to recognize and celebrate our administrative professionals whi...
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Three projects funded through annual AMC21 Multi-Investigator Program AwardsMarch 22, 2023UAB 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,...
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New study details inflammation in early stages of Parkinson’s diseaseMarch 1, 2023The findings indicate that inflammation is present in the brain early in the disease’s progression, but how inflammation affects disease progression remains unknown.
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Faculty honored at 2022 Argus Awards ceremonyJanuary 20, 2023Medical students honored their outstanding mentors, professors, courses, and course directors at the annual Argus Awards Ceremony on Friday, Jan. 6.
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Osteoarthritis: Multi-ancestry analysis reveals novel genetic loci associated with the diseaseDecember 5, 2022The 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 eve...
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UAB Heersink School of Medicine granted full LCME accreditation at the highest level possibleNovember 9, 2022The 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 ...
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Fecal microbial transplants show lack of predictability when no prior antibiotic treatment is given to recipientNovember 4, 2022This finding suggests utility of treatments before fecal microbial transplants to reduce recipient microbial communities. This would help donor microbial strains dominate in the recipient.
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Protein kinase CK2 has key role in killer T cells during infection by Listeria monocytogenesOctober 28, 2022Experiments 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 mous...
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Kidney resident macrophages have distinct subpopulations and occupy distinct microenvironmentsSeptember 28, 2022This novel finding will help guide successful therapeutic design and strategies for acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
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O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center awards $950,000 in cancer-related research grantsSeptember 21, 2022O’Neal Invests funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related projects to do key preliminary work to enable competitive extramural applications.
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First-of-its-kind undergraduate cancer biology program graduates first two studentsJuly 5, 2022At UAB, undergraduate students with a passion for medicine have the option to receive a specialized degree in cancer biology — a degree found nowhere else in the country.
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Fluorescence microscopy shows how living cells form vesicles to transport cargo like growth factorsJune 13, 2022Surprisingly, several competing models for this clathrin-mediated endocytosis all appear to function in two cell lines tested.
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Momentum in Medicine at UAB series: Meet Megann, Donna, and Dr. FullerApril 27, 2022The Heersink School of Medicine is spotlighting each of the women selected for the Momentum in Medicine at UAB program and hosting one-on-one interviews to learn their stories. In May, He...
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A refined microbiome “fingerprint” method tracks sub-strain variants of a single gut microbe strainApril 26, 2022An absence of sub-strain variation over a short period was seen in sick patients, which may signal impending gut dysbiosis.
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Neuroengineering Ph.D. program graduates first studentApril 22, 2022Adeel Memon will be the first graduate of the UAB neuroengineering Ph.D. program during the 2022 spring graduate commencement ceremony on April 29.
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Cancer: Sialylation of the epidermal growth factor receptor modulates cell mechanics and enhances invasionApril 21, 2022This study included three lines of human cancer cells and suggests new potential therapeutic targets in cancer.