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Single-cell sequencing enables researchers to study disease as never before — even skipping through time to follow crucial populations. UAB experts explain what all the fuss is about and how to get started in single-cell research — a field that is wide open for discovery.

Published in Core Facilities

An experimental PET scan developed by new radiology faculty member Ben Larimer, Ph.D., captures T cells in the act of destroying tumors. A first-in-humans clinical trial is set to start at UAB this fall.

Noha Sharafeldin, MBBCh, Ph.D., of the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, used UAB’s supercomputer to identify biomarkers linked with cognitive impairment in patients who received a blood or marrow transplant. She’s also testing a way to repair the damage.

Monica Baskin, professor of preventive medicine, is the winner of the 2019 Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award for her work to influence change in the field of health disparities action and research.

Published in Awards & Honors

For the past six years, pathology Professor Upender Manne, Ph.D., has provided students a chance for a summer of “total immersion” in research as part of a major, multi-pronged effort to tackle the profound cancer disparities seen in African-American populations and build a cancer-fighting pipeline.

Published in Training & Development

Michael Bertram, Ph.D., has had a long-standing interest and decades of experience in research infrastructure and core facilities.

Published in Leadership

50thShieldONLY COLORFrom traveling to Antarctica to publishing children’s books, from taking biology educational tools to India to planting pollinator gardens on campus, women have been integral to shaping UAB’s reputation its 50-year history. As part of its annual coverage of Women’s History Month, the UAB Reporter has gathered examples of its more recent coverage of women at UAB.

Published in Achievements

Mona Fouad, M.D., a pioneer whose landmark research helped create the UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center and pave the way for millions of dollars in health disparities research in the Southeast, will receive the highest honor of the Academic Health Center.

Published in Awards & Honors

More than 300 employees with 20-plus years of service to UAB will be honored March 1.

Published in Awards & Honors

Investigators can access secure, high-volume file storage, a pipeline for clinical data and the high-performance computing resources to analyze it.

Published in Tools & Technology

50thShieldONLY COLORThe second annual event, a 5K all-ages walk, will bring together individuals who have, in some way, been affected by cancer and raise awareness of and education about services offered at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.

Published in UAB in the Community

Pam Alverson, program director for the Office of Program Review and Monitoring Systems in UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, is the recipient of the university’s highest non-academic employee award.

Published in Awards & Honors

In more than three decades with UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Debbie Frazer has never wavered in making patients her first priority.

Published in Awards & Honors

Pam Alverson maintains a calm, stabilizing presence in a sometimes-overwhelming arena of clinical research.

Published in Awards & Honors

Sixteen UAB physicians and researchers were selected for awards during the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center's annual research retreat and competition.

Published in Awards & Honors
Shevde-Samant has been elected a member of the Chemo/Dietary Prevention Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review
Published in Achievements
Effective Oct. 1, 2013, the newly formed Department of Neurosurgery will increase the profile of an internationally renowned program.
Published in Academics
Meneses’ research focus is cancer survivorship and interventions to improve quality of life in cancer survivors and their families.
Published in Awards & Honors
Partridge was honored for his exceptional talents and his commitment to make progress towards finishing the fight against cancer.
Published in Awards & Honors

Barnes’ expertise in mass spectrometry and soy has ­had a lasting effect nationally, internationally and with students

Published in Awards & Honors

Long-term study seeks people ages 30-65 who never have been diagnosed with cancer

Published in Get Involved

Sixteen UAB physicians and researchers were selected for awards during the Comprehensive Cancer Center’s annual Research Retreat.

Published in Awards & Honors

UAB is opening a new, state-of-the-art zebrafish research facility.

Published in Tools & Technology
Monica Baskin, Ph.D., and Dori Pekmezi, Ph.D., are examining the socio-cultural influence on the diets of black women in the Deep South.
Published in Research & Scholarship
Danny Welch was recently was selected for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Scientific Advisory Council, which includes more than 60 top-ranked scientists, physicians and advocates from seven nations and a wide range of disciplines
Published in Awards & Honors
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