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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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Heart attack recovery aided by injecting heart muscle cells that overexpress cyclin D2
Researchers used a pig model of heart attacks, which more closely resembles the human heart in size and physiology, and thus has high clinical relevance to human disease. -
Winners of UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 awards announced
Celebrate the professional achievements of this year’s UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 award winners during a virtual ceremony Thursday, June 24. -
UAB begins COVID-19 vaccinations for ages 12 and over, sets closing dates for several community vaccination sites
UAB’s Sarah Nafziger, M.D., encourages those who have not received their COVID-19 vaccination to get it now before UAB’s sites close. -
Warram receives NIH R37 MERIT Award
The National Cancer Institute awarded Jason Warram, Ph.D., $2.7 million for his research project using disease-targeted fluorescent antibodies to better guide surgeons and pathologists during oncologic surgery. -
Experts say children infected with COVID-19 may not show typical symptoms
A new study shows that children with COVID-19 may not display typical symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath, therefore more screening and vigilance are required.
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We can’t let #WHM end without acknowledging our fantastic program co-director, Dr. Talene Yacoubian. Dr. Yacoubian splits her time between the MSTP, seeing patients in a specialized ataxia clinic, and running a research lab that studies the 14-3-3 protein family in Parkinson’s.