Avery Ellis, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and physiology and senior associate dean for medical curriculum, is one of eight faculty members from top U.S. institutions chosen to create scenarios for simulations used by medical students.
UB researchers will use a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the first vaccine against an understudied bacterium that causes at least 10 percent of middle ear infections in children.
The AIDS Center/Immunodeficiency Services Clinic at Erie County Medical Center has won the 2012 New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Award for Excellence in Quality Performance.
Researchers at UB and the local company Immco Diagnostics have discovered novel antibodies that will allow for much earlier diagnosis of an autoimmune disease affecting more than 4 million Americans.
John M. Canty Jr., MD, Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor and chief of cardiovascular medicine, has been named president of the Association of Professors of Cardiology.
UB microbiologists studying bacterial colonization in mice have discovered how the bacteria associated with pneumonia, middle ear infections and other illnesses acquire and spread resistance.
Obese teen boys have up to 50 percent less testosterone than lean boys, significantly increasing their risk of impotence and infertility in later life, according to the results of a new UB study.
Heart failure patients with heart block benefit significantly from cardiac resynchronization therapy, according to the results of an eight-year national clinical trial led by principal investigator Anne B. Curtis, MD.