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O’Neal Cancer Center at UAB receives American Cancer Society grant to help patients overcome lodging barriers in Birmingham
Mar 1, 2021
American Cancer Society Emergency Lodging grants focus on addressing unmet lodging needs of cancer patients, particularly vulnerable populations experiencing an unequal burden of cancer.Read more... -
Eight UAB researchers included on list of “1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists”
Feb 25, 2021
The list was made by a group that aspires to bolster and increase diversity across all scientific fields, promote retention through the “leaky academic pipeline,” and broaden academic and industrial awareness of diversity and inclusion.Read more... -
O’Neal Cancer Center awards $1.2M in cancer-related research grants via O'Neal Invests
Feb 8, 2021The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center recently awarded eight projects a total of $1.2 million in research grants through its new program, O’Neal Invests. The O’Neal Invests program funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related projects to do key, preliminary work in order to enable competitive R01 applications.
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Hypoxia, a feature inside solid cancer tumors, reprograms methylation of ribosomal RNAs
Feb 3, 2021
Altered epigenetic marks on ribosomal RNAs appear to create a pool of specialized ribosomes that can differentially regulate translation of specific messenger RNA.Read more... -
A constant, guiding force: Community Health Advisors remain pivotal asset to cancer awareness, education, screening
Feb 2, 2021
In two decades, the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB has trained more than 2,000 Community Heath Advisors. Countless lives have been impacted by the work of these Community Health Advisors, or CHAs, who provide a link to essential health education and awareness in communities most in need of access.
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COVID-19 infection in immunodeficient patient cured by infusing convalescent plasma
Jan 21, 2021
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.Read more... -
Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging
Jan 20, 2021
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.Read more... -
Buchsbaum, Datta awarded grants from Elkus Scholars Program
Jan 19, 2021O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center senior scientists Donald Buchsbaum, Ph.D., and Pran K. Datta, Ph.D., recently received research grants from the Richard A. Elkus, M.D., Eminent Scholars Program in Gastrointestinal Oncology.
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Published by the Office of Community Relations and Development, the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine highlights the center's physicians, scientists and patients.
