BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has designated the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) one of only six Diabetes Research and Training Centers (DRTC) in the country, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

For the second year in a row, UAB School of Nursing ranks No. 14, with $4.26 million in NIH research funding for fiscal year 2018. In 2017, the School received $4.1 million in funding, increasing its ...

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 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 ...

Totaling $1,062,676 over five years, the NIH grant — known as a T32 grant — is the first of its kind to be awarded to a program that emphasizes both research and medical training in genomic medicine.

According to the latest figures available through Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is ranked No. 5 in ...