Researchers at UAB receive $6.5 million grant to investigate gout

The National Institutes of Heath has awarded UAB's Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology a $6.5 million grant to further investigate gout, hyperuricemia and other gout-related diseases. “The incidence of gout is increasing worldwide, with around 4 percent of the adult population in the United States affected,” said Kenneth Saag, director of the UAB Investigations In Gout, Hyperuricemia and ComorbidiTies (INSIGHT) Center of Research Translation and Lowe professor of medicine. “Gout…
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