Department News

  • Student in Summer Research Program Wins AMA Contest
    2/1/22

    A student in UB’s summer research fellowship program, “Training the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists,” won the 2021 American Medical Association Research Challenge, emerging from more than 1,100 submissions to claim the grand prize of $10,000 in the largest national research competition among medical students, residents and fellows in the country.

  • Study: CBT Alters Brain-Gut Microbiome in IBS Patients
    1/28/22

    A joint study between researchers at the University at Buffalo and UCLA demonstrates for the first time that a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that teaches information processing skills can modulate key components of the brain-gut-microbiome axis in some of the most severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients.

  • Learning to Motivate Patients Toward Healthier Lifestyles
    1/21/22
    In a partnership with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), a Jacobs School program provides medical and dietetics students with tools aimed at boosting the health of Western New Yorkers in 2022.
  • Conference Focuses on Health Disparities in City of Buffalo
    1/12/22

    The Igniting Hope Conference continues to focus on the urgent challenges of long-standing health disparities in Buffalo’s African American community.

  • 20 Faculty Members Join 10 Medical School Departments
    12/20/21

    Faculty members with clinical and research experience have joined the departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry, Surgery and Urology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • UB Hosts SAGES Flexible Endoscopy Course for Fellows
    12/20/21

    The Department of Surgery hosted the 2021 Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Flexible Endoscopy Course for Fellows at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building.

  • Fight Against Buffalo’s Health Disparities Receives Boost
    12/8/21

    To more powerfully address and reverse Buffalo’s entrenched health disparities, a University at Buffalo center dedicated to regenerating underdeveloped neighborhoods is joining the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB.

  • 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).