Category: Cancer Center Blog

The Classic in Pink Luncheon brought together community leaders, survivors and advocates to celebrate resilience and promote breast health education.

UAB Medicine and the O’Neal Cancer Center are pleased to announce the commitment from Jorge E. Cortes, M.D., to the Division of Hematology and Oncology, joining us as the Chief of Hematology in April. Cortez will also assume the role of Associate Director for Translation for the UAB O’Neal Cancer Center.

The UAB O'Neal Cancer Center partnered with the City of Birmingham to offer no-cost PSA screenings for prostate cancer to city employees.

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center hosted its 2024 Iron Strong Awards July 12, honoring nine cancer clinical trial survivors.

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce that the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama (BCRFA) has generously funded […]

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce the latest O’Neal […]

The Winter 2025 O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center magazine is now available online.

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce its latest O’Neal Invests grant awards for its fall 2024 cycle.

The road to success is rarely direct, as fourth-year UAB graduate student Michael Franks can attest; Franks is the winner of the 2024 Jacob Baker NextGen Scholar Award for his research project, “Stem-Like Memory NK Cells Contribute to Improved Outcomes in Oncolytic Virotherapy of Glioblastoma.”

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center hosted its 2024 Iron Strong Awards July 12, honoring nine cancer clinical trial survivors.

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce that the BCRFA has generously funded two catalyst grants through the spring cycle of O’Neal Invests.

The UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce its spring 2024 O’Neal Invests grant awards.

New technology presents new opportunities in patient care, something that Yogesh Kumar, Ph.D., knew well when he began researching the use of machine-learning software in cancer treatment. When he received this year’s Mary Ann Harvard NextGen Scholar Award for his work integrating artificial intelligence into radiotherapy, he knew he was on the right track.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is pleased to announce that the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama (BCRFA) has generously funded three Pre-R01 grants through the fall cycle of O’Neal Invests.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is pleased to announce its fall 2023 O’Neal Invests grant awards.

UAB’s Breast Cancer Team presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) December 5 through December 9, 2023.

UAB cancer biology undergraduate student Emma Hendrix attended the ASCO Quality Care Symposium October 27, 2023, to present her research poster “Evaluating shared-decision making among women with metastatic breast cancer.” One detail made this opportunity uniquely special however: She presented her research with her grandfather, oncologist Patrick Daugherty, M.D., in attendance.

Elizabeth E. Brown, Ph.D., MPH, will be the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Associate Director for Population Science beginning January 1, 2024. Brown is the Endowed Professor of Cancer Pathobiology in the Department of Pathology at the Heersink School of Medicine, immediate past chair of the International Lymphoma and Epidemiology Consortium and co-leader of the O’Neal Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center wants to thank everyone for their support and participation during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From Witches Rides to 5K runs, below are some photos highlighting events from around the greater Birmingham area.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB hosted its 23rd annual Research Retreat Friday, October 13, at Regions Field. More than 350 attendees joined the day-long event.

Thanks to the efforts of Devika Das, M.D., and her team, lung cancer screening among veterans in Birmingham rose to 18.5 percent, well above the national six percent average. An expansion of an existing screening program used by the Department of Veterans Affairs, her program began as a pilot in late 2021 before beginning a full year of testing in 2022. The results were impressive; despite being new to the other participating cities in the same Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN), including Charleston and Atlanta, Birmingham’s results quickly surpassed them.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which inspires a variety of educational and fundraising events. From foot races to cookouts—all benefitting cancer research—there’s something for everyone.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Community Builders. This group of individuals will serve as ambassadors for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion principles in all aspects of cancer workforce development.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is pleased to announce its latest O’Neal Invests grant awards. O’Neal Invests funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related projects to do key preliminary work to enable competitive extramural applications. Applications for the seventh grant cycle were submitted in Spring 2023.