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November 2024 marked 20 years since the establishment of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute (EMBI) at UAB. The institute was made possible by a generous gift from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF), matched by the university, to support research in cognitive aging and age-related memory loss. Ronald Lazar, Ph.D., professor in the UAB Department of Neurology, has been director of the institute since 2017.
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- department of neurology
- department of neurobiology
- department of family and community medicine
- department of biology
- department of psychology
- department of radiology
- department of medicine
- department of biostatistics
- department of epidemiology
- department of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology
- department of ophthalmology and visual sciences
- department of pathology
- school of nursing
- school of optometry
UAB Heersink School of Medicine has awarded three grants for the latest annual Multi-Investigator Program Award cycle. The 2022/2023 AMC21 Multi-PI Awards, which provide grant funding of $150,000 per year for two years, were awarded to Javier Neyra, M.D., Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D., and Anna Thalacker-Mercer, Ph.D.
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- department of medicine
- division of nephrology
- department of microbiology
- department of cell, developmental and integrative biology
- division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine
- division of infectious diseases
- school of public health
- department of epidemiology
- department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine
- department of emergency medicine
- division of cardiovascular disease
- division of pediatric neurology
- department of neurology
- department of anesthesiology
Studies in recent years had suggested that cilia regulate vital processes including growth, appetite, mood, healing and vision.
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New study in European Heart Journal contradicts a recent study in the same publication, suggests evidence is lacking that digoxin increases mortality as atrial fibrillation treatment.
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A UAB study is the first suggest that any drug can dramatically reduce the risk of 30-day, all-cause hospital admission among older heart failure patients.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $28 million grant renewal for the nation’s largest study aimed at exploring racial and geographic differences in stroke illness and stroke death from The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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