U of Alabama at Birmingham receives $120K for CRC screenings

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s division of gastrointestinal surgery and gastroenterology and hepatology were awarded a $120,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Public Health’s Cancer Prevention and Control Division for the third consecutive year.

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According to a Nov. 18 news release, the grant will go toward increasing access to CRC screenings for low-income and un- and underinsured populations in the region. 

Robert Hollis, MD, and Patricia Ajayi-Fox, MD, both assistant professors at UAB, are the researchers named in the grant. They work in conjunction with Cooper Green Mercy Health Services, a UAB Medicine affiliate also in Birmingham.

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