New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and led by Craig Maynard, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, finds synergy between T-cell stimulatory protein and immunoregulatory cytokine. Read more

UAB preclinical testing of AdCOVID last spring and summer, led by Fran Lund, Ph.D., chair of the UAB Department of Microbiology, and including 23 other researchers from six UAB labs in the UAB School of Medicine, will proceed to Phase 1 clinical trial. Advantages of this vaccine include no need of refrigeration, simple one-dose administration by a spray into the nose, the power to elicit mucosal immunity at the linings of the nose and lungs, which would protect not only against infection but also against transmission. Read more

UAB lab led by Sixto Leal, MD, PhD tracks risky COVID-19 variants Read more

Jacob Files, a graduate student in the UAB M.D.-Ph.D., Medical Scientist Training Program, Assistant Professor Nathan Erdmann, MD, PhD and Professor Paul Goepfert, MD from the UAB Division of Infectious Disease, report sustained cellular immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from COVID-19. Read more

Research carried out by Charles O. Elson, III, MD, Professor of Medicine and colleagues in a mouse model, using immune-reactive T cells from patients with Crohn’s disease, may provide a potential preventive treatment for Crohn’s disease. 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

Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, secured grant to study Immunotherapy/RANKL Antagonism for breast cancer. 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

Ninecia Scott, PhD, UAB Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Immunology training grant, is one of the founders of "Black in Microbiology". To find out more, click here to see her interviewed on a podcast of the American Society for Microbiology.