Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
Forging the future of medicine
At UAB, we’re training the next generation of physicians and physician-scientists, answering basic scientific questions that lead to medical innovations, and bringing the highest quality health care to all of our patients. UAB is the heartbeat of Birmingham and an integral medical leader in the Southeast.
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Faculty
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At UAB, collaboration is a way of life, and we’re bringing together the brightest minds to improve health outcomes for all.
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UAB is already a national leader in clinical trials. Here is how it plans to extend the benefits to even more Alabamians.
Participating in a clinical trial can be lifesaving, and now, more patients than ever have access to life-changing therapies at UAB.
Graduates of Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Community Leadership Academy present solutions to key stakeholders
The CLA was made possible with support from Coca-Cola United, whose generous donation of $250,000 funded LHSA’s pilot academy.
UAB among first in the world to use a new TAVR system to treat aortic stenosis
The device will be used to treat patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are at high or extreme risk for open-heart surgery.
More than $82 million NIH grant to propel CCTS forward
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded four grants from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, part of the National Institutes of Health, totaling $82 million over seven years.