Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD, is leading a pilot study to determine whether behavioral self-management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may lead to fundamental changes in the digestive system’s bacterial ecosystem.
The Genome, Environment and Microbiome (GEM) community — part of a University at Buffalo initiative that seeks new approaches to global challenges — has had its inaugural meeting.
Twenty-one faculty members with various research and clinical expertise have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.
Stanley F. Fernandez, MD, PhD, research assistant professor of medicine, says the new statin alternatives known as PCSK9 inhibitors are a welcome treatment for high cholesterol.
Ninety-five student-scientists presented projects during the 2015 Buffalo Summer Research Day, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.
Twenty-one faculty members with research and clinical expertise in various specialty areas have joined the school’s faculty during the past several months.
The director of the University at Buffalo’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship and the administrator of a family medicine program have won the first UB Graduate Medical Education Awards of Excellence.
John M. Canty Jr., MD, Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor and chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been named a State University of New York Distinguished Professor.
During the Department of Medicine’s third annual Research Day, residents and fellows presented the results of their research projects in areas including bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, improvement in hyperlipidemia management and exosomes in stem cell mediated cardiac repair.
Paresh Dandona, MD, PhD, has been appointed to serve on the editorial board of Diabetes Care, the official journal of the American Diabetes Association.
