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Their presentation – which highlights the breadth of capabilities at USA Health for burn patients – demonstrates the benefits of a collaborative care approach across the inpatient and outpatient setting.
Jennifer Young Pierce, M.D., M.P.H., will give an oral presentation outlining the results of a study that looked at positive results of cancer survivors who participated in culinary medicine classes.
Known as the GeneSwap approach, this new technology provides novel insights into mitochondrial diseases, which are often lethal and have only palliative treatments available.
Seema Singh, Ph.D., is a professor of pathology at the Whiddon College of Medicine and a senior member of the cancer biology program at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.
“Our preliminary studies make strong suggestions for a pathobiological involvement of nicotine exposure in prostate cancer aggressiveness and therapy resistance.”
Glen Borchert, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology, is studying the survival of Salmonella bacteria during cellular stress.
The gift includes $23,900 in proceeds from the recent Piggly Wiggly Golf Tournament in Mobile and a matching donation from longtime MCI supporter Abraham A. Mitchell.
This award supplements a grant the Whiddon College of Medicine received from HRSA in September 2019. The initial grant, plus all supplemental funding, now totals $19.8 million.
“Our ultimate goal for this research is to make clear the biological and molecular mechanisms that are critical to rickettsial transmission by fleas so we can better understand the epidemiology of flea-borne rickettsial diseases and identify novel points of intervention,” Macaluso said.
Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at USA, recently received the five-year award to study the infection dynamics of a tick-borne bunyavirus called severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus or SFTSV.
A collaboration between the University of South Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the study builds upon Lin’s previous research grant from the NIH, which totaled $1.7 million over a four-year period.
National study is seeking those who have had COVID and those who haven’t.
