Jeff Hansen
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jeffhans@uab.edu | (205) 209-2355Communicates UAB research discoveries and initiatives from across the university for a variety of audiences.
Specific beats:
- Alabama Drug Discovery Alliance
- Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Biomatrix Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell biology
- Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering
- CCTS
- Center for Metabolic Bone Disease
- Microbiology
- Neurobiology
- Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
- Pathology, research shared with MS2
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Physiology and Biophysics
- UAB Research Foundation/IIE
- Research Administration
This discovery has implications in cancer, stem cell growth, and blood or neuron progenitor cell speciation.
The testing at UAB will investigate immune responses to the vaccine in mice — an important step before any Phase 1 human safety trial in patients later this year.
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., visited UAB just as COVID-19 appeared near the NIH.
An immune reaction to COVID-19 infection called cytokine storm syndrome can be fatal to COVID-19 patients.
The tuberculosis bacteria induce increased hydrogen sulfide production by human macrophages, which increases pathogenesis.
Manipulating cellular metabolism may provide a promising therapeutic intervention in autoimmune diseases.
This suggests the possibility of cross-talk that heightens pathogenesis in Type 1 diabetes.
Chaplin has been chosen as a distinguished fellow by the American Association of Immunologists for his contributions to the field of immunology.
Influenza NS1 can bind with the cell’s RIG-I protein, blocking the innate immune response
Coronary microvascular dysfunction is a precursor to later heart disease, heart failure and possible death.