Important updates to UAB's COVID-19 health and safety policies and our mission to help fight COVID-19
SCIENCE MEETS MEDICINE
MSTP provides a truly integrated training program, in which students take both a selection of medical school and graduate school courses concurrently within their first 2 years in the program. This allows our students to get a head start on their graduate courses, while also getting to know both their fellow MD and PhD classmates. Our MD-PhD students are highly involved in multiple aspects of the program, including being student advisors to the MSTP Directors, organizing our new Southeastern MD-PhD Symposium, and planning the annual MSTP retreat.
By the Numbers
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UAB-developed research tool will help scientists better understand COVID-19
PAGER-CoV offers a data-driven, precision medicine approach to help researchers around the world better understand COVID-19. -
Blood supplies are low. UAB Medicine and LifeSouth host mobile drive
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted normal blood donation patterns, leaving the nation’s blood supply perilously low. -
Vaccination questions answered by UAB medical professionals
With misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines rife, turn to trusted medical professionals at UAB’s Department of Medicine for the straight dope. -
COVID-19 infection in immunodeficient patient cured by infusing convalescent plasma
The 72-year-old patient was unable to mount her own immune defense against the SARS-CoV-2 virus because of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which compromises normal immunity and immunoglobulin production. -
Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging
If these hollow capsules are modified to target a solid tumor, PET imaging and therapeutic ultrasound can be used to rupture them and release an anticancer drug at ground zero.
Connect
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This year has no doubt been difficult, but our students have accomplished some amazing things in both their professional and personal lives. Check out our year in review:
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