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Research Opportunity: UAB's Center for Exercise Medicine and Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging
Thomas Buford, Ph.D., and his research group are seeking highly-motivated undergraduate students interested in serving as a member of an interdisciplinary clinical research team.
Dr. Buford’s lab is aligned with two UAB university-wide research centers, including the Center for Exercise Medicine and the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging. His research is broadly related to the prevention of physical disability and the preservation of independence among older adults, largely through the use of physical exercise. Students should have a general interest in a field related to the research goals of the lab.
Students should also have a strong interest in learning about the conduct of clinical research – particularly as it applies to working with older adults. Students will be involved in helping to conduct multiple clinical research studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, conducting literature reviews, human subject data collection and/or entry, assisting with regulatory paperwork, and/or development of study manuscripts.
This opportunity requires strong interpersonal skills, basic computing skills, and a commitment of at least one year. Preference will be given to candidates able and willing to provide longer-term commitments. For more information or to apply, please
Research Opportunity: UAB Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory
When damaged, unlike the adult heart, the neonatal heart is capable of regenerating injured myocardium.
Our project is to better understand and characterize this regeneration process in a piglet model of myocardial infarction. The tasks we would like help with are to feed and care for the animals at night and during the weekends, until they are able to be weaned.
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Research Opportunity: Biomedical Sciences/Cardiovascular Disease
Samantha Giordano, Ph.D., studies the effects of estrogen (the female sex hormone) on cardiovascular disease.
Her laboratory looks at how decreases in estrogen as females age, causes an increased in inflammation, reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial dysfunction. This cellular dysfunction can lead to increases in cardiovascular disease, and her lab aim to studies this process.
If interested, please