Department News

  • Researchers Develop New Tool to Fight Kidney Disease
    12/8/21

    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers have leveraged the power of digital pathology and computational modeling to develop a new approach to detecting and quantifying podocytes, which are specialized types of kidney cells that undergo damaging changes in both structure and function in the early stages of kidney disease.

  • 22 Faculty Members Join 7 Medical School Departments
    12/7/21

    Twenty-two faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing seven medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • Identifying Kids at Risk for Post-Concussion Symptoms
    11/12/21

    Researchers at the University at Buffalo Concussion Management Clinic have developed a decision rule using a brief, standardized physical exam for sport-related concussive brain injuries in children and adolescents that can readily identify who is at risk for persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS).

  • 10 Medical School Awardees Honored for Excellence
    11/3/21

    Nine faculty members and a staff member from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were among those honored for notable achievement and service at the 18th annual University at Buffalo Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence. 

  • SUNY Clinical Leadership Academy Sessions Underway
    10/18/21

    Twelve Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences physicians have been selected to participate in the first SUNY Clinical Leadership Academy.

  • Cain is a Surprise Inductee Into Gold Humanism Society
    10/13/21

    The surprise induction of Michael E. Cain, MD, outgoing dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and vice president for health sciences, into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) highlighted this year’s ceremony.

  • Trio Honored for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education
    10/8/21

    Graduate Medical Education Awards of Excellence have been presented to the physician who directs the emergency medicine residency program and the administrator of the residency programs in internal medicine and internal medicine-preventive medicine.

  • Record 163 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
    9/20/21

    Four medical residents, three medical students and one postdoctoral associate earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s third annual Celebration of Scholarship.

  • Students Present Their Summer Research Projects
    9/13/21

    Forty-three student-scientists presented projects during the 10th Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

  • 9 Faculty Members Join 5 Medical School Departments
    8/31/21

    Nine faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing five medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.