University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) offers an NIH-funded Medical Scientist (combined MD-PHD) Training Program (MSTP).
Birmingham, AL, USA
Joined March 2011
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Tuesday October 13th, welcome Emma, a GS1 in the program, as she shows us a day in the life of a student in the UAB MSTP!
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Very grateful to have the opportunity to share our lab’s latest work at the #CCVCSymposium! Honored to receive this award and looking forward to more exciting research with the @TheWendeLab, @UABPathology, and @UABExerciseMed!
@MahimaReddy11 wins at the 13th Annual CCVC Symposium!
@TheWendeLab Graduate student @MahimaReddy11 won 1st place for her poster presentation at the 13th Annual UAB Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center Symposium held October 1-2, 2026.
Congratulations to our MSTP students who presented their research at the 2026 O'Neal Cancer Center Research Retreat!
Receptors fully saturated with sun, sand, and good company. UAB MSTP Retreat 2026 😎
Photo cred: @studioshahkhan
Medical Student Research Day 🔬🧪🥼
A few of our students presented their summer research. Keep up the good work!!!
We are excited for interview season to begin! Follow along with Brittany Curtiss, a fifth-year MD/PhD student, as she shows you a glimpse of life in Birmingham!
ALT Instagram Takeover for Brittany Curtiss (GS‑3) on Sept 15 — hometown Vancouver, WA; undergrad George Fox University; mentors Drs. Rui Lu and Rob Welner; research: epigenetic mechanisms of targeted leukemia therapy; hobbies: ceramics, cooking, camping, reading; includes a white‑coat headshot and a camping photo.
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Excited to share my first-first author publication from my PhD thesis work in @TheWendeLab 🎉 Our new study on "O-GlcNAc Memory". We hope that the findings will provide insight into the mechanism behind increased susceptibility to heart failure in patients with diabetes ❤️🩺
Happy to report we have published a new study on "O-GlcNAc Memory". We hope that the findings will provide insight into the mechanism behind increased susceptibility to heart failure in patients with diabetes.
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We are stoked to welcome our incoming class of MS1s to the UAB MSTP family! (1/2)
group photo credit: @studioshahkhan
Congratulations to our newest cohort of physician-scientists on receiving their white coats! We are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited to officially welcome you to the MSTP family. 👏👏👏
Congratulations to the MS-4 class of our MSTP family on their residency matches! We could not be more proud!!! (part 3 of 3) #matchday #uab #doubledocs
Congratulations to the MS-4 class of our MSTP family on their residency matches! We could not be more proud!!! (part 2 of 3) #matchday #uab #doubledocs
Congratulations to the MS-4 class of our MSTP family on their residency matches! We could not be more proud!!! (part 1 of 3)
#matchday #uab #doubledocs
Qualities embodying successful physicians or scientists can often seem at odds with each other. In the latest UnABridged blog post, Dr. Lamario Williams, PhD takes the opposite stance, exploring a skill set he views as quintessential to both pursuits
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UAB MSTP retweeted
Hot off the press! Congrats to Grayson Gimblet, our outstanding MD/PhD student for leading this work with our colleagues @UABSurgery @UABMSTP @UABRadiology
Imaging of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer with TSHR-Targeted [89Zr]Zr-TR1402 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Congratulations to outstanding MDPhD students - now Drs. Matthew Cheung and Gelare Ghajar-Rahimi, who successfully defended their theses. It was my honor to serve as co-mentor with Jim George. @UABMSTP @UABHeersink @MatthewDCheung @G_GhajarRahimi
