Tag: UAB
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...
UAB Named an Exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
The National Institute on Aging has named the University of Alabama at Birmingham an exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, one of 31 sites in...
UAB Researcher Wins AHA Prize
Ramaraju Ruraraju, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is one of four $5,000 prize winners in a competition developed by...
UAB Launches GuideSafe Statewide
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has launched its anonymous exposure notification app — GuideSafe™ — to the general public.
Supported by Coronavirus Aid, Relief...
Telemedicine: A New Way of Health Care Delivery in Alabama
Alabama has been a leader in a national health care trend driven by the ongoing virus crisis, thanks to quick action by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.
Alabama Moving to Covid Contact Tracing
Contact tracing of individuals in Alabama infected with SARS-CoV-2 is coming soon, by way of a smart phone application now being developed by the...
350-Fold Telemedicine Boom “Nothing Short of a Miracle”
The swift adaptation of the Alabama health care system to telemedicine during the virus crisis has been "nothing short of a miracle," says Dr....
Wide Search to Repurpose Drugs for Sars-Cov-2
UAB picked to join international effort in search of existing drugs useful against COVID-19
UAB, Altimmune Inc. Testing COVID-19 Vaccine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is partnering with biopharmaceutical company Altimmune Inc. for preclinical testing of a potential vaccine to prevent COVID-19 disease.
The...
