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Jed Ferguson, III, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urology, won second place in the American Urological Association (AUA) Early-Career Investigators Showcase for his research project, “ARID1A mutant bladder cancer is dependent on PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling via a novel upregulation of non-canonical PI3K isoforms, which can be therapeutically targeted.”

Patrick Selph, M.D., has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor on the tenure earning track, effective October 1, 2021. 

Patrick Selph, M.D.

The 2021 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting was fully virtual Sept. 10-13. Urologists around the world, including some of our own in the UAB Department of Urology, provided access to groundbreaking research, new guidelines and the latest advances in urologic medicine. 

David Joseph, M.D., professor in the Department of Urology, has been recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for volunteering his expertise to the Review Committee.

KidneyCure, the American Society of Nephrology Foundation, awarded Tanecia Mitchell, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urology, the 2021 Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation-KidneyCure Research Scholar Grant.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Research on Calculus Kinetics (R.O.C.K.) Society meeting that was scheduled in Birmingham, AL, was held virtually Friday and Saturday, May 21-22, 2021.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center has awarded $1.2 million in research grants through its new program, O’Neal Invests.

We are excited to announce Zach Burns and Alex Nocera, UAB, and Corbin Norton, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine. Please welcome them to the team!

Soroush Rais-Bahrami, M.D., associate professor of Urology, and Sam Galgano, M.D., assistant professor of Radiology, were featured in UAB's CME accredited podcast, UAB MedCast. 

Three department scholars presented research at the 2020 Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (CAIRIBU) Annual Meeting.

Sunil Sudarshan, M.D., professor of urology and co-leader of the Cancer Biology and Immunology Program within the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the oldest medical honor societies in the United States.

Sunil Sudarshan, M.D., professor in the Department of Urology, has been selected as the School of Medicine's Featured Discovery recipient for his most recent study.

The UAB Medicine Office of Patient Experience and Engagement (OPXE) recognized four providers in the Department of Urology in its 2020 list of "Top-Performing Providers." They were highly rated by UAB Medicine patients as exceptional communicators. 

Tanecia Mitchell, Ph.D., an assistant professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Urology, received a Young Investigator Award.