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UB Medicine Magazine

UB Medicine is published by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to inform its alumni, friends and community about the school’s pivotal role in medical education, research and advanced patient care in our region.

The magazine features timely and informative articles about the school’s move downtown to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, new faculty and chair recruits, clinical and translational research, advances in patient care, medical education and training, UB’s role in the integration of health care in Buffalo, faculty, alumni, students and residents and trends in health care.

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Alumni Highlights

Volunteer Appreciation Night Features Awards, BPO Concert
1/15/25
Volunteer faculty, donors and the many others who make outstanding contributions to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored during an awards ceremony and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra string quartet concert Jan. 13 during the school’s second annual Volunteer Appreciation Night.
Alumnus Thrives on Wilderness Medicine
10/24/24
As the only physician at an Antarctic research station, Shawn Vainio, MD ’03, was a one-man medical team. He recounted his decades of wilderness medicine experience at a UB Global Health Grand Rounds talk.

School News

NIH Awards UB $28.4 Million
1/17/25
With the CTSA funding, UB will build on its strong success improving health outcomes and addressing health disparities in WNY.
NIH awards UB $28.4 million
1/16/25
With the CTSA funding, UB will build on its strong success improving health outcomes and addressing health disparities in WNY.

Research News

UB Researchers Involved in Major Eye Disease Study
1/14/25
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which affects about 200 million people worldwide and can result in legal blindness, impairs an area of the eye (retina) used for reading, driving and many other critical daily tasks.
Krabbe Disease: Rosenau Family Research Foundation Funds UB Research Focused on New Therapeutic Target
1/8/25
A UB researcher working on Krabbe disease has been awarded a grant from the Rosenau Family Research Foundation to investigate how an enzyme deficiency in the brain causes this disease, which is usually fatal by age 2.

Downtown Campus News

HWI officially joins University at Buffalo
1/7/25
The move strengthens the two organizations’ mission to advance medical science research and education in WNY and beyond.
UB’s Educational Opportunity Center shares state job-training grant
12/12/24
The $1.9 million grant will bring a nine-week, paid, direct-entry, pre-apprenticeship program for construction trades to Buffalo.