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At the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, researchers, doctors and nurses work together every day to fight cancer. The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center team is dedicated to providing the highest quality of life for people diagnosed with cancer, while advancing the world’s understanding of cancer and translating this knowledge into improved prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship. Our vision is to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem.

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UAB Professor Louise Chow Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 4, 2012

Louise T. Chow, Ph.D., professor of Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and senior scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center has been elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences for her excellence in original scientific research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.

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