UAB’s GuideSafe Tech Expanded Across State Lines
Every Alabamian using the University of Alabama at Birmingham-developed GuideSafe app for COVID-19 exposure will receive an extra layer of protection beginning today when the...
Sanders Trust Sells $240 Million Medical Property Portfolio
Birmingham-based Sanders Trust has sold a $240 million portfolio of medical properties — 11 properties in eight states — to a public pension fund.
Sanders...
Grandview Medical Center Breaks Ground on New Building
Grandview Medical Center broke ground Friday on a 200,000-square-foot building on its campus off U.S. 280 in Birmingham.
The seven-story Grandview Physicians Plaza II is...
Nektar OK’d To Test COVID Treatment
Nektar Therapeutics has received FDA approval to test an investigational new drug as a potential treatment for mild COVID-19 cases.
Nektar, which is based in...
UAB Plans Trainee Wellness Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is planning to open a wellness center for its physicians-in-training at UAB Hospital in 2021.
The Graduate Medical Education...
Tracking Immune Response to COVID-19
A scientist associated with HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology and colleagues from China have reported finding a means to track an individual’s immune response to...
UAB Expands Tele-ICU Care in Region
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is partnering with Advanced ICU Care to expand ICU telehealth initiatives across the UAB Health System.
The partnership includes...
UAB Receives Funding for Precision Disease Modeling
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a five-year, $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Research Infrastructure Programs...
UAB Aging Center Renews $4.5 Million Grant
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging has renewed a $4.5 million grant to...
Auburn’s SiO2 Wins Vaccine Vial, Syringe Contracts from Canadian Government
Auburn-based SiO2 Materials Science has signed a pair of contracts with the Canadian government to supply some 80 million vials and syringes for distributing...