UAB researchers, led by Frances E. Lund, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, report additional preclinical evidence of the potency of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate AdCOVID - created by Altimmune Inc., a Maryland-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. A single intranasal dose provided sterilizing immunity in the lungs of vaccinated animals. Read more
In their study published in the journal Gastroenterology, Charles O. Elson, III, MD and co-first authors Katie Alexander, Ph.D., and Qing Zhao, M.D. were first to report that Crohn’s disease patients have specific IgG antibodies to human bacterial flagellins. Read more
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 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.
