Speaking to a packed audience at UAB on March 6, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shared his picks of 10 “areas of particular excitement and promise” ...

UAB’s first NIH R38 StARR grant helps more doctors get involved with research during residency William Geisler, M.D., MPH, is principal investigator for UAB's first R38 grant, professor in the ...

The NIH announced all MoTrPAC awardees Dec. 13. The seven awarded MoTrPAC clinical centers include several partners, totaling 12 institutions nationwide. MoTrPAC is a national research consortium ...

The UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine was honored to welcome National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., as the guest lecturer for the Department of Surgery’s annual ...

The grant, awarded to Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Tapan Mehta, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, will be used to develop an ...

The UAB School of Nursing has remained among the top 20 nursing schools for NIH funding since 2017, and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship Marie Bakitas, DNSc, NP-C, AOCN, ACHPN, FAAN, said, ...

The NIH grant will provide more than $2.5 million in funding to UAB over a five-year period. “This award provides a vote of confidence for our research efforts,” says Austad. “With this new funding, ...

The purpose of this announcement is to provide you with a timeline and expectations with regard to UAB's implementation of the new NIH requirements announced in NOT-OD-21-073 which announced changes ...

NIH issued eight Pioneer awards, 72 New Innovator awards, nine Transformative Research awards and 14 Early Independence awards for 2022. Funding for the awards comes from the NIH Common Fund, the ...

Richard Whitley, M.D., Distinguished Professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant The investigational drug remdesivir, developed through research conducted through the Antiviral Drug ...

The UAB Department of Ophthalmology hit a major milestone in 2017. According to annual figures available through Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...

The project, called GODART, or Gamified Optimized Diabetes management with Artificial Intelligence-powered Rural Telehealth, will use natural language-understanding technology combined with ...