UAB Research Grant Funds Research for Undergrads, High School Teachers
July 9, 2010. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A summer program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is making research dreams come true for students and teachers from throughout the country.
In the Interdisciplinary Materials Research Program, UAB Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teachers (REUT) is funding 10 weeks of laboratory research for 16 students from colleges as far away as New York and Colorado and two secondary education teachers from South Carolina and Alabama.
Obama nominates Subra Suresh as Director of National Science Foundation
June 3, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he intends to nominate Subra Suresh, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, to serve as the next director of the National Science Foundation. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Suresh, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at MIT, would be appointed to a six-year term as director.
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Dr. Darshana Jhala presents at American Society of Cytopathology’s educational forum
Dr. Darshana Jhala, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was invited by the American Society of Cytopathology to give a teleconference on ‘Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Deep Seated Lymphadenopathy’ on August, 2009.
UAB Researchers Find Four Biomarkers Important in Colorectal Cancer Treatment Prognosis
May 15, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a set of four biomarkers that will help predict which patients are more likely to develop aggressive colorectal cancer and which are not.
DNA Testing of Blood Sample Not Effective for Identifying CMV in Newborns, Says UAB Research
April 13, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - DNA analysis of dried blood samples routinely collected from newborns by a heel-stick procedure is not effective as the currently used saliva or urine culture in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a major cause of hearing loss in children, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the April 14 issue of JAMA.
Multitasking Brain Divides and Conquers, To a Point
Southern Research and Vivo Biosciences Announce Collaborative Co-marketing Agreement
Birmingham, Ala. (April 16, 2010) - Birmingham CRO, biotech company find a way to enhance client offerings through scientific collaboration
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One Step Closer to Personalized Medicine: UAB Researchers Find First Bio-Marker for MS
March 28, 2010
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found the first bio-marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that might predict which patients will respond to a standard therapy and which will not.
Subhash Khot wins the extremely prestigious Waterman Award and $500,000 in grant money
March 10, 2010
Subhash Khot wins the extremely prestigious Waterman Award and $500,000 in grant money.
New UAB Research Says Heart Failure Worse When Right Ventricle Goes Bad
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that the ability of right side of the heart to pump blood may be an indication of the risk of death to heart-failure patients whose condition is caused by low function by the left side of their heart.
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