Research News

Team Alice, an initiative of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Successful Aging, has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) to evaluate an educational video designed to encourage patient/caregiver-initiated deprescribing conversations with doctors and to evaluate its impact on medication use.

A team of internationally recognized scientists at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are testing melatonin as a treatment for patients with mild and moderate COVID-19.

Research by Ruogang Zhao, PhD, and Yun Wu, PhD, associate professors of biomedical engineering, may lead to the discovery of new drugs to treat pulmonary fibrosis, a severe lung disease that can be life-threatening.

A Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty member is leading a national team of researchers in the development of advanced MRI techniques.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers Richard W. Browne, PhD, and Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD, are investigators for a $957,000 grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to explore the progression of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS).

A video game version of “Sofia Learns About Research,” the children’s activity and coloring book co-authored by Teresa Quattrin, MD, UB Distinguished Professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for research integration, that presents research in a fun, age-appropriate way, has arrived at Explore & More — The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Children’s Museum.

Andrew H. Talal, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, was justifiably proud when the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was made in early October.

A powerful partnership that brought University at Buffalo faculty and community leaders together to fight against health disparities has allowed the community to blunt the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens.

Manoj J. Mammen, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, is one of the co-authors of new clinical practice guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) issued by the American Thoracic Society.