Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Findings Could Help Develop Better Pneumonia Vaccines
8/21/20
Researchers exploring the nature of immunity after vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae have discovered that a specific type of white blood cell called neutrophils plays a more critical role than was previously known.
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.
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.
4 New Faculty Members Join 3 Medical School Departments
5/29/20
Four faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing three medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.
Researchers Testing Alternative to Ventilators
5/28/20
Initially spurred by fears of a shortage of mechanical ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients, researchers have been developing a low-cost way of mechanizing resuscitators that are commonly found in ambulances and emergency rooms.
Physicians Face Challenging COVID-19 Work Conditions
5/18/20
The novel coronavirus has caused massive upheaval in everyone’s lives. Aside from patients and their families, those whose lives have been most altered are those on the front lines ─ the health care workers whose jobs require them to face the virus firsthand each day.
UB Part of National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project
4/23/20
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is participating in a national effort being coordinated by the Mayo Clinic to collect convalescent plasma as a possible therapy for COVID-19 patients.

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