The UAB GBS/JHS Graduate Research Student Research Symposium is Friday, May 13 in the UAB Hill Student Center. Keynote speaker is geneticist Neil Risch, Ph.D.
Faculty and staff in the Department of Medical Education have restructured the process of accepting international medical students for clinical electives at UAB.
Applications open for 2016 General Endowment Fund awards
Written by UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
The Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund grants offer financial support for projects within UAB demonstrating multidisciplinary efforts in clinical care, medical education, laboratory research and patient-oriented research.
Division of Congenital Cardiac Anesthesiology established in the Department of Anesthesiology
Written by Julie Cole Miller
The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine is pleased to announce the establishment of the Division of Congenital Cardiac Anesthesiology.
Two young Alabama women formed a bond over a rare germ cell cancer affecting only 1,000 women across the United States.
Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis is reduced in a rat model using a cell-signaling inhibitor drug
Written by Jeff Hansen
Results show that JAK/STAT pathway inhibitors may be a new class of therapeutic treatments for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Acting by reducing inflammation, they prevent neurodegeneration in animal models and may be an important new approach to slow progression of the disease.
Study shows how different people respond to aspirin — an important cardioprotective drug
Written by Bob Shepard
Understanding how people respond to aspirin is key in terms of knowing who will benefit from it.
UAB Medicine's Benevolent Fund campaign is wrapping up, but it's not too late to make your donation.