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All of Us mobile enrollment event on UAB campus
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Students and community members can learn how they can be included in shaping the future of health care for generations to come by joining us for an All of Us Research Program enrollment event. -
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama supports O’Neal Invests with $400,000 in awards
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The O’Neal Invests program funds UAB investigators starting new cancer-related projects to initiate key, preliminary work needed to enable competitive R01 applications from the NIH. -
Individual donor strains do not show link between fecal microbe transplantation and successful melanoma immunotherapy
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Fecal-dominant donor microbes in the recipient patients after fecal microbe transplantation did not correlate with response to anti-PD-1 therapy. -
$100 million in gifts to transform UAB School of Medicine
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Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation. -
The COVID-19 virus rapidly evolves to higher infectivity during in vitro growth, which may be a step toward lower virulence
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The higher infectivity correlates with mutations that increase viral binding to a cell surface glucosaminoglycan, heparan sulfate. -
Virtually all Alabamians could benefit from gene-based drug prescribing, statewide study finds
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Analyzing gene sequencing data and prescriptions for more than 3,300 participants in the Alabama Genomic Health Initiative, UAB researchers estimate 98.6% of Alabamians have actionable genotypes and “a significant proportion are currently prescribed affected medications.” -
How UAB researchers keep major studies moving in a pandemic
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Five faculty who are principal investigators of major cohort studies explain how COVID-19 forced them to rethink and respond — and how their projects are contributing to the fight. -
Dutta named chair of Department of Genetics
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Written by: Jessica Martindale Anindya Dutta, Ph.D., MBBS, has been named chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Dutta received his Bachelor of Medicine-Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1981 from Christian[…] -
Dutta named chair of Department of Genetics
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Anindya Dutta, Ph.D., MBBS, has been named chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. -
Interdisciplinary data science workshop moves from San Diego to spare bedrooms, but science continues
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Learn how UAB bioinformaticist Jake Chen, Ph.D., and computer scientist Da Yan, Ph.D., shifted their venerable gathering online and aided the fight against COVID-19.
