Displaying items by tag: Department of Pathology
UAB gets a CDC grant to set up a sentinel surveillance system to track an antibiotic resistant infectious agent responsible for many cases of pneumonia.
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Low dietary potassium leads to calcified arteries and aortic stiffness, while increased dietary potassium alleviates those undesirable effects in a mouse model, suggesting dietary potassium may protect against heart disease and death from heart disease in humans.
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This knowledge can provide targets in the search for novel bone-loss therapeutics to treat osteoporosis.
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Winners of the 2017 Argus Awards were announced at the ceremony held Friday, Sept. 8. The awards are given each year by medical students to honor their professors and course directors for excellence in medical education.
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- school of medicine
- department of medicine
- department of cell, developmental and integrative biology
- department of pharmacology and toxicology
- department of pathology
- department of neurology
- department of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology
- montgomery
- huntsville
- tuscaloosa
- department of medical education
Five faculty projects were recently funded through an AMC21 initiative giving NIH-funded investigators incentive to submit a second R01.
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Winners of the 2017 Dean's Excellence Awards were honored with a reception held on Tuesday, June 6 at the Wallace Tumor Institute.
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Eleven outstanding faculty members were named recipients of the 2017 Dean’s Excellence Awards, an honor recognizing exceptional contributions made by School of Medicine faculty in service, teaching, research, diversity enhancement and mentorship.
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- school of medicine
- department of medicine
- division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine
- division of nephrology
- division of preventive medicine
- division of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative care
- division of clinical immunology and rheumatology
- department of pediatrics
- division of pediatric emergency medicine
- division of pediatric endocrinology
- department of pathology
Twelve School of Medicine faculty were recently honored as winners of the UAB Graduate Dean's Excellence in Mentorship Award.
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- school of medicine
- department of pharmacology and toxicology
- department of medicine
- division of infectious diseases
- division of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative care
- division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine
- division of nephrology
- division of cardiovascular disease
- department of pediatrics
- division of pediatric infectious diseases
- department of surgery
- division of cardiothoracic surgery
- department of pathology
- department of neurobiology
- department of biomedical engineering
Failure of hormone deprivation therapy used to slow prostate cancer in patients leads to castration-resistant prostate cancer, a lethal form of advanced disease with limited treatment options. Endostatin, used in combination therapy, may help delay onset of castration-resistant disease.
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Marisa Marques, M.D., receives awards for her commitment to apheresis at UAB.
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