Department News

PhD Student Awarded Fellowship from American Heart Association
3/27/13
Virginia Havel, a PhD student in microbiology and immunology, has received an American Heart Association Founders Affiliate predoctoral fellowship.
$214,000 from UB Catalyst Fund Advances Medical Inventions
3/4/13
Faculty in or associated with the UB medical school are involved in four of five research projects that have received grants from the Catalyst Fund.
UB Invention Leads to Discovery of Novel Pathway for TB Vaccine
3/1/13
Researchers have discovered a new vaccine target for tuberculosis using a UB-patented adjuvant that boosts the potency of mucosal vaccines.
40 Percent of UB Provisional Patent Filings Originate in Med School
2/14/13
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.
Immune Pathways Suggest Target for Treating Acute Lung Injury
2/14/13
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.
UB Scientists Receive $1.6 Million to Create Ear Infection Vaccine
1/24/13
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.
Nine Departments Welcome New Faculty
1/17/13
Twenty-one faculty members joined the medical school in the latter half of 2012.
Faculty Write Immunology and Serology Textbook
12/17/12
Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, PhD, professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences, and Ernesto De Nardin, PhD, adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology, have co-authored a clinical immunology textbook.
Grant Funds Translational Research Training in Anesthesiology
12/13/12
Paul R. Knight III, MD, PhD, has won an $890,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to help future physician-scientists become leaders in anesthesiology-focused translational research.
UB Microbiologists Find Answers to Antibiotic Resistance in the Nose
12/12/12
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.
NIH Awards Read $1.6 Million to Study Regulation of RNA Editing in T. Brucei
11/8/12
Laurie K. Read, PhD, has won a four-year, $1.6 million NIH grant to study the mechanisms and regulation of RNA editing in the parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness.
Researchers Find Genes Essential to Growth of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
10/15/12
Biomedical researchers have discovered a novel, previously unrecognized set of genes essential for the growth of potentially lethal drug-resistant bacteria.
Clinical and Translational Science Institute Celebrates Grand Opening
9/27/12
The UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences held the Sept. 20 grand opening of its Clinical and Translational Science Institute in the joint UB-Kaleida Health building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
Bangs Appointed Chair of Microbiology and Immunology
8/31/12
James “Jay” D. Bangs, PhD, an expert on sleeping sickness, has been named the Grant T. Fisher Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
T35 Grant Funds Summer Research Training for Six UB Med Students
7/18/12
A T35 training grant from the NIH is providing stipends for UB medical students to participate in mentored research projects this summer at UB and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.