Department News

Doctoral Candidate Invited to Work on United Nations Project
3/3/16
A doctoral candidate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is working on a United Nations project involving information infrastructure.
Trio of Second-Year Students Takes Top Honors at Research Forum
2/19/16
Aspiring physician-scientists showcased 38 original research projects at the 2016 Medical Student Research Forum. The displays showed work they conducted at the University at Buffalo, its partner health care agencies and institutions nationwide.
14 New Faculty Members Join 9 Departments
3/18/15
Fourteen faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the school’s faculty during the past several months.
UB Centers to Help Transform Medical Diagnosis, Treatment
2/12/15
As part of the state-funded $105 million collaboration between the University at Buffalo and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), the year-old Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG) is helping to develop upstate New York as a national center for genomic medicine research.
Diet May Affect Brain Iron Levels; Results Vary By Gender
1/28/15
A University at Buffalo pilot study using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) links dietary habits with iron levels in the brain — a factor associated with various neurological conditions as well as aging.
25 New Faculty Members Join 12 Departments in Medical School
12/10/14
Twenty-five faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the school’s faculty during the past several months.
Healthcare Informatics Institute Key to NY Genomic Partnership
8/8/14
The University at Buffalo’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics will play a key role in the new state-funded genome research center — part of a statewide public-private partnership designed to accelerate advances in genomic medicine into clinical care.
Ceusters Developing “Vocabulary of Pain” to Improve Patient Care
8/1/11
A University at Buffalo psychiatry professor has received an NIH grant to develop a uniform vocabulary describing chronic pain and related disability, mental health and quality of life issues.
Ontology Conference Aims to Develop Common Biomedical Language
7/8/11
Hundreds of international scientists will gather at UB this month to help develop a common language of biomedical terms that can be uniformly interpreted by people and computers.