Department News

Jacobs School Students Lauded for Academic Excellence
4/30/21
Fifteen students in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored for outstanding achievements at the University at Buffalo’s 2021 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence.
Studies Focus on How Brain Limits Remyelination in MS
4/16/21
A pair of research studies led by Fraser J. Sim, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, reveal important new findings as to how regeneration of myelin in multiple sclerosis (MS) fails and, potentially, more efficient ways to treat it.
Researchers Detect California COVID-19 Variants in WNY
4/9/21
Researchers from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have found evidence of the so-called California variants of COVID-19 — B.1.427 and B.1.429 — in virus samples of Western New Yorkers who tested positive in January by using genetic sequencing to decode the genes of SARS-CoV-2 and better understand how it is evolving.