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UAB is one of the top research universities in the country, annually receiving more than $200 million in training and research grants and contracts. That amounts to more external funding than is granted to all other Alabama universities combined.

The University of Alabama School of Medicine ranks 16th in the nation in research awards received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

UAB is the only university in Alabama to earn top ranking in the Carnegie Foundation's classification of American colleges and universities, which is based on the amount of federal funds awarded for research and the number of doctoral degrees conferred. UAB joins institutions such as Duke, Harvard and Johns Hopkins in the Carnegie grouping for Research Universities I.

Some highlights of the research program:

  • UAB's Comprehensive Cancer Center was one of the first of 26 designated by the NIH
  • UAB has four Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grants in: Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Brain Tumors, and Pancreatic Cancer
  • UAB has one of six NIH-sponsored AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Units
  • UAB's Department of Microbiology is consistently first or second in NIH funding in the nation.
  • UAB's was designated by NIH as one of nine Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence in the Nation.
  • UAB's Pittman General Clinical Reseach Center (GCRC) was established in 1960 and has received continuous federal funding since. This multidisciplinary facility provides an environment for meticulous control of experimental conditions, close observation and accurate monitoring of biologic phenomena, and the precise measurement of biochemical and physiological events in subjects participating in research activities.
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