Researchers say ketamine appears to work on depression by blocking the neurotransmitter glutamate from binding to the NMDA receptor on neurons.
He has been an active member of the American Parkinson Disease Association Scientific Advisory Board since May 2001 and is the board’s fourth chairman since the organization’s founding in 1961.
The Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology spent several days teaching elementary students about the pulmonary, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal through hands-on activities.
A UAB research team has discovered a new pathway that contributes to fibrosis, or scarring in the lungs.
Lorenz, director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, says physician-scientists can bridge the gap between lab discoveries and patient care.
Communicating Our Progress
Written by Anupam Agarwal, M.D.
The six weeks since President Ray Watts appointed me to succeed him as your Interim Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean have been very eventful, which is normal for a place as dynamic as UAB. This new position has given me an even greater appreciation for the work we all do to make a positive impact on students, patients, science and the community. Communicating our progress, and our challenges, is vital to understanding who we are as an institution and affording the community the opportunity to understand and appreciate who we are and what we do. To that end, this is the first of what will be several monthly messages from me.
Shannon Ross, M.D., talked to The Mix about how having a marker to tell which babies are most at risk for symptomatic CMV would help researchers decide when treatment with antiviral drugs is worth it.
Deal served as senior vice president of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine from October 1997 until October 2004.
The 2013 graduating class of the UAB School of Medicine continued a strong streak at Match Day, with 97 percent matching in a post-graduate position to continue their medical studies.
The Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinical Program is competing in an online vote on that ends at 5 p.m. on March 28.