From UAB Pathology Undergraduate Education Web site (http://peir.path.uab.edu/pathgrad)

AIDS: AIDS

AIDS | Bone | Cancer | Cardiovascular | Cell Matrix | Gene Therapy
Immunology | Infectious Disease | Metabolic Disease | Neurobiology

AIDS research includes vaccine development & T-cell biology of HIV infection and pathogenesis of AIDS.


 

HIV attacks the cells of the host immune system and undermines its ability to fight pathogenic infections and cancer. UAB boasts of the premiere Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) which was established in 1988 and is comprised of over $90 million in reseach funding.

Typical graduate student research projects focus on the understanding of the mechanisms of HIV-mediated T-cell killing as well as on the development and testing of novel preventive and therapeutic vaccines against HIV/AIDS. 


 

 

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
AIDS Research Faculty

 

Bucy, Pat, M.D, Ph.D.

Research Focus: Regulation of in vivo immune responses by T cells

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Hel, Zdenek, Ph.D.

Research Focus: Development and testing of novel HIV/AIDS vaccine strategies

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McDonald, Jay, M.D.

Research Focus:  Cell signaling in bone disease, AIDS and cancer

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