Bench to Bedside

• A Dietary Supplement Dampens the Brain Hyperexcitability Seen in Seizures or Epilepsy These results, seen in animal models, represent a potentially novel therapeutic target for the treatment of seizure disorders.
  February 20, 2018
• Administering additional antibiotic prior to C-section reduces infection rates by 50 percent A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows adding the dose of 500 milligrams of azithromycin during a C-section also significantly decreases the use of health care resources, including readmissions, emergency room visits and clinic visits.
  May 3, 2017
• New Study Questions Timing in Mitral Valve Repairs A new study recently published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery questions whether patients with isolated moderate to severe mitral valve regurgitation should receive treatment in earlier stages instead of waiting until symptoms appear.
  January 20, 2017
• Technology Improves Clinical Trial Management and Patient Experience UAB has begun using a clinical research management system that seamlessly integrates patient information from multiple sites.
  October 3, 2016
• $3 Million Grant Will Help UAB Custom Engineer Living Tissue to Fix a Heart Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, MD, PhD., brought his biomedical engineering expertise to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to fix hearts.
  August 18, 2016
• Fixing Cystic Fibrosis: In Vitro Studies Show Therapeutically Robust Correction of the Most Common CF Gene Mutation In experiments with isolated cystic fibrosis lung cells, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues from 2 other institutions have partially restored the lost function of those cells.
  July 6, 2016
• New Study Explores Carb Loading's Effect on Heart Consuming a high-carbohydrate load may have an acute and detrimental effect on heart function, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
  June 10, 2016
• UAB Tissue Imaging Mass Spectrometry Detects Early Lipid Changes in Acute Kidney Injury Researchers have made a microscopic snapshot of early renal lipid changes in acute kidney injury, using a laser-scanning method called MALDI tissue imaging.
  May 27, 2016
• Stroke Risk Increases From Stenting in Older Patients New findings show that vascular surgery appears to be safer than stenting for patients older than 70 years of age with carotid stenosis.
  May 4, 2016
• Researchers Identify Key Protein for Brain Cancer Stem Cell Growth and Survival Studies find a kinase protein could aid survival of patient-derived brain cancer stem cells and may be useful as a cancer treatment target.
  March 14, 2016
• Functional Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Identified Adults whose eyes are slow to adjust to the dark have a greater risk of developing age-related macular degeneration.
  February 3, 2016
• UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center One of Five Centers Chosen Part of HIRN-CTAR Three-year grant establishes consortium to organize and support collaborative research related to loss of functional beta cell mass in T1D.
  December 23, 2015
• Researchers Unlock Mystery of Memory Loss in Patients With Epilepsy New research identifies an epigenetic cause for why patients with temporal lobe epilepsy tend to have memory loss and possible solution.
  November 30, 2015
• New HPV Vaccine Shows Promise to Dramatically Reduce Cervical Cancer   Renowned UAB HPV expert Warner Huh says new 9-valent HPV vaccine has the potential to eradicate the majority of cervical cancer.
  October 19, 2015
• Clinical Trial Tests Drug Shown to Completely Reverse Diabetes   “Repurposing of verapamil as a β cell survival therapy in type 1 diabetes trial" will test a new approach from current diabetes treatments.
  October 19, 2015
• Study Shows Race Influences Warfarin Dose: An Advance for Personalized Medicine   A new report demonstrates that clinical and genetic factors affecting dose requirements for warfarin vary by race.
  October 19, 2015