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  • Nine Heersink staff members honored with 2024 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Staff
    Sep 11, 2024
    Heersink School of Medicine awarded nine staff members as the 2024 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Staff winners. Individuals selected for this honor showcased outstanding accomplishments beyond their daily duties and contributed considerably to Heersink’s core mission areas – education, clinical care, and basic, translational, and clinical research.
  • Research in the classroom: Students conduct precision medicine research that benefits patients with neurological diseases through Undergraduate Neurosciences Program courses
    Sep 04, 2024
    Camerron Crowder, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Neurobiology and assistant director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (PMI), offers a unique research opportunity for undergraduate students by teaching the PMI research process, how to develop animal models, and the use of artificial intelligence to identify treatment options through courses in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program.
  • Black/African American individuals have an increased risk for severe insulin-deficient diabetes
    Sep 04, 2024
    A cluster analysis in the Deep South showed that racial background significantly influences diabetes subtype distribution.
  • UAB receives an ARPA-H award for up to $8.7 million to transform biomedical data science
    Sep 01, 2024
    This investment marks a critical step forward in harnessing cutting-edge technology to revolutionize the accessibility and application of biomedical data science.
  • Heersink Institute Leadership Attend Symposium on AI in Health Care at Maastricht University
    Jul 03, 2024
    University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty members recently participated in the AI in Medicine and Healthcare Symposium at Maastricht University, which brought together experts and stakeholders to discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming health care.
  • Heersink School of Medicine hosts ACP Alabama Chapter Winter Meeting on AI in medicine
    Mar 08, 2024
    The American College of Physicians Alabama Chapter recently held its annual Winter Meeting at UAB’s new Active Learning Center in Volker Hall. The meeting, hosted by the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, focused on “Medicine in the Machine Age: The Integration and Influence of AI in Medicine,” and featured presentations and expert involvement from the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation team and other Heersink School of Medicine leaders.
  • Office of Research reviews a year of progress at the 2024 Annual Research Retreat
    Feb 21, 2024
    The Heersink School of Medicine Office of Research held its Annual Research Retreat on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at the UAB Alumni House. Research leadership from across Heersink, UAB Central Administration, other UAB schools, and Southern Research attended the retreat.
  • Patton receives NEJM scholarship for SAIL
    Oct 19, 2023
    Michael Patton, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Heersink School of Medicine, received the 2023 New England Journal of Medicine scholarship for the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL) and gave a Spotlight Talk at the conference.
  • Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation hosts Generative AI for Healthcare Symposium
    Sep 25, 2023
    The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a symposium titled "Generative AI for Healthcare: Progress or Peril" with multiple speakers, all innovators in the field of health care, on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
  • NSF awards $2.6 million grant to UAB computer science expert for furthering research on scalable declarative AI languages
    Aug 18, 2023
    The project will empower a wide range of users to implement the next generation of genomic analysis, smart querying of medical literature, neuro-symbolic AI with stochastic reasoning, graph analytics, software verification tasks and security auditing.
  • COVID-19 bacteremic co-infection is a major risk factor for mortality, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilation
    Jul 05, 2023
    Nathaniel Erdmann, M.D., Ph.D., Amit Gaggar, M.D., and Matthew Might, Ph.D., are the latest winners of the Heersink School of Medicine's Featured Discovery. This initiative celebrates important research from Heersink faculty members.
  • Crowder named 2023 Provost’s Awards in Undergraduate Research winner
    Jun 07, 2023
    Camerron M. Crowder, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology, has been awarded the 2023 Provost’s Awards for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
  • Next generation technology and sequencing are focus of 2023 Rare Disease Genomics Symposium
    Mar 02, 2023
    The 10th annual Rare Disease Genomics Symposium will take place virtually March 10 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
  • COVID-19: Bacterial co-infection is a major risk factor for death, ICU admission and mechanical ventilation
    Feb 28, 2023
    Having a bacterial infection at the same time as COVID-19 is a greater risk factor for COVID-19 severity and mortality than previously described risk factors such as advanced age, male sex or various comorbidities.
  • Researchers use precision cardiovascular medicine to prevent the development of heart diseases
    Dec 15, 2022
    Precision medicine approach may identify those at high genetic risk of hypertension, heart failure, stroke and heart attacks and use precision medicine to help prevent fatal cardiovascular diseases.
  • Clinical trial for rare genetic disease gets assistance from artificial intelligence
    Nov 04, 2022
    The ADNP/ketamine trial was the first clinical study generated by a information gleaned from the Precision Medicine Institute’s artificial intelligence tool.