Department News

  • Startup Uses AI to Streamline Process of Detecting Fevers
    10/9/20

    A startup company with roots at the University at Buffalo is setting a new course that could eventually help organizations around the world better navigate return-to-work plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Levy, Siddiqui Create Neurosurgery Video Textbook
    8/14/20

    Elad I. Levy, MD, and Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, have created a new tool for neurosurgeons and neurosurgery students — a video textbook.

  • Faculty Members Note Link Between COVID-19 and Stroke
    5/12/20

    Faculty members at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are working collaboratively with doctors throughout the U.S. to learn more about a new link they are seeing in some patients between COVID-19 and stroke. And it is occurring in an unexpected population.

  • Forum Showcases 34 Medical Student Research Projects
    4/27/20

    Thirty-four original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2020 Medical Student Research Forum.

  • UB Spinoff Developing Brain Aneurysm Screening Test
    1/6/20

    A UB spinoff company that is developing a low-cost blood test to screen high-risk patients for unruptured brain aneurysms has received $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • Jacobs School Researchers Receive NIH HEAL Awards
    11/13/19

    Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ researchers studying how to develop novel, non-addicting painkillers have each been issued awards by the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative, a prestigious and highly competitive program from the National Institutes of Health.

  • Summer Research Projects Presented at Annual Event
    9/17/19

    Eighty-four student-scientists presented projects during the Ninth Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

  • Hopkins Recognized With UB’s Highest Honor
    5/10/19

    L. Nelson “Nick” Hopkins, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery, has been awarded the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, the University at Buffalo’s highest honor.

  • Researchers Aim to Advance Surgery With 3D Printing
    4/16/19
    Researchers have developed a way to generate 3D prints of the human vascular system, giving surgeons pre-surgical, hands-on access to individual patients’ life-threatening vascular diseases in the heart and brain.