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Nearly 100 difficult-to-image proteins will soar into orbit on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and travel to the International Space Station. They are part of a study to demonstrate the effects of microgravity on protein crystals led by UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering. (UPDATE: Technical delays have pushed back the March 30 launch. Get the latest info on launch time here).

Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Division of Preventive Medicine and of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, has been appointed to a new position — senior associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion — in the UAB School of Medicine, effective April 1.
Each year UAB departments, schools and organizations present fun, educational and convenient summer camps.
English Professor Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., an acclaimed writer and scholar of 20th-century American and Irish literature, is the winner of the Ireland Prize for Scholarship awarded annually by the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.
Gene V. Ball, M.D., Barri J. Fessler, M.D., and S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., edited the third edition of the definitive and most highly regarded textbook dealing with basic biological and clinical aspects of vasculitis. Ball and Bridges were co-editors of the previous two editions.
UAB researchers will work with community partners in Black Belt counties to reach diabetics in denial and use personal stories and coaching to demonstrate that their lives can be full if they take their medication as prescribed.
Undergraduate Ariel Smith, graduate student Chelsea Singleton and professional student Dwight Lewis Jr. are among the eight recognized for significant achievements to develop a more culturally diverse, competent and inclusive university community. Meet them online.
UAB is one of 32 clinical sites of the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, a large-scale study that will study individuals with genetic mutations associated with Parkinson’s disease to identify and validate biomarkers that aid in diagnosis and treatment.
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