Forty-two residents, fellows, faculty and medical students were inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and one student received the Goldstein scholarship during a March ceremony.
The Office of Graduate Medical Education announced the Evan Calkins, MD, Fellowship for Community-Based Research, an award for residents and junior faculty members who conduct community-based research or quality improvement projects.
Innovations developed at least in part by faculty at UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences accounted for nearly 40 percent of the provisional patent applications filed by the university in 2012.
UB researchers have identified specific roles for two innate immune pathways that drive acute lung injury—findings that may lead to the first treatment or preventive strategy for the condition.
Andrew Talal, MD, chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, presented his research at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease.