Department News

Two residents and two fellows earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the 21st Annual Graduate Medical Education Scholarly Exchange Day.

Four Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty have been appointed to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor.

Research on neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) by Pinaki Sarder, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, is featured in Scientific Reports.

UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded new grants that support promising translational research projects in Western New York.

A new fossil hamster species unearthed in Tibet has been named after the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty member who discovered it in 2010.

Vincent M. Tutino, PhD, a recent graduate of the doctoral program in biomedical engineering, is first author on a published study in PLOS ONE showing that circulating cells in the blood carry a gene expression “signature” that may predict if someone has a brain aneurysm. 

John C. Biber III, a first-year student in the master’s program in anatomical sciences, has received a Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) grant to support his thesis work in the laboratory of Yongho Bae, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences.

Work by John E. Tomaszewski, MD, and Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, to transform the way students and others study the human body is coming to fruition.

Eleven medical school teachers, three residents and four medical students received 2018 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.