Based on a hypothesis proposed by Sadis Matalon, PhD, Alice McNeal, M.D., Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology at UAB, and Distinguished Professor and vice chair for Research, a clinical trial led by UAB Professor Emeritus Timothy Ness, M.D., Ph.D., Sonya Heath, MD, professor in the UAB Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and Brant Wagener, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in Anesthesiology.will test possible COVID-19 treatment for outpatients. Read more
Better tests, cheaper vaccines: Antibody expert Moon Nahm, MD, professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care and director of UAB's Bacterial Respiratory Pathogen Reference Laboratory and the World Health Organization Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, turns to COVID-19. Read more
Professor Sonya Heath, M.D., of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UAB reports about new studies that test convalescent plasma for COVID-19 treatment — and prevention. Read more
Frances Lund, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, is the lead UAB investigator on a study, in which Altimmune COVID-19 vaccine candidate tested at UAB shows positive preclinical results Read more
Kevin Harrod, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, and James Collawn, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, are investigating the possibility that the COVID-19 virus acts as a microRNA “sponge”, modulating host microRNA levels in ways that aid viral replication and stymy the host immune response. Read more
Meet the UAB scientists active in the Program in Immunology who volunteered to face the coronavirus up close. Read more
Robert Kimberly, M.D., director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at UAB. is the principal investigatore of a study aimingto determine the number of undetected COVID-19 cases in the United States. Read more
Jessy Deshane, Ph.D., and her postgraduate fellow, Kayla Goliwas, Ph.D., are pioneering new territory in the study of SARS-CoV-2 and its effect on lung cells. Read more
Tackling his third pandemic, UAB researcher Kevin Harrod, PhD, gets up close with coronaviruses in order to kill them Read more
