Department News

  • Renowned Cancer and Nutrition Expert Joins Faculty
    8/7/20

    An internationally renowned cancer and nutrition expert has joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, UBMD Physicians’ Group and Great Lakes Cancer Care Collaborative, and will serve as director of a new center focusing on nutrition and cancer.

  • Studying Biomedical, Public Health Factors of Pandemic
    7/30/20

    A team of Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences physicians has launched a project to explore both biomedical and public health factors of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Clinical Research Resumption Underway at Jacobs School
    7/28/20

    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members are encouraged by the phased-in return of clinical research.

  • Lt. Gov. Hochul Visits Jacobs School to Talk COVID-19
    7/14/20

    During a visit to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul stressed the importance of all New Yorkers wearing face masks to halt the spread of COVID-19 and touted the contributions of the school’s experts in fighting the pandemic.

  • Jacobs School Researchers Collecting COVID-19 Data
    6/26/20

    Researchers in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences continue to spearhead a number of projects related to the COVID-19 global health pandemic.

  • Siegel Awards Acknowledge Teaching Excellence
    6/26/20

    Fourteen Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences teachers, seven residents, four medical students and three staff members received 2020 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.

  • 142 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
    6/23/20

    Two medical fellows, four medical residents and two medical students earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s second annual Celebration of Scholarship.

  • Calkins, Logue Awardees Honored
    6/23/20

    A fellow and a resident share the 2020 Evan Calkins, MD, Community-Based Research Fellowship.

  • 40 Physicians, Trainees Feted by Gold Humanism Society
    6/15/20

    UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) has inducted 40 exemplary medical students, residents, fellows and faculty members for 2020.

  • Cain Named to Regional Panel Monitoring COVID-19
    6/4/20

    Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed to serve on the Western New York Control Room, which monitors statistics related to COVID-19 in the region.