Department News

  • 16 New Faculty Members Join 7 Medical School Departments
    3/11/20

    Sixteen faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing seven medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • 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).

  • 25 Faculty Members Join 8 Medical School Departments
    12/4/19

    Twenty-five faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing eight medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • Treatment to Block Chronic Pain Developed by Ignatowski
    12/3/19

    Tracey A. Ignatowski, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, has developed a treatment for chronic pain that could have an impact in dealing with the opioid crisis.

  • Research Automates Grouping of Diabetic Kidney Disease
    11/18/19

    Pinaki Sarder, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, and doctoral student Brandon Ginley have developed a new method that automates the classification of progressive diabetic kidney disease, reducing variability and boosting precision.

  • UB Biorepository Accentuates Power of Precision Medicine
    11/15/19

    The University at Buffalo has officially launched the UB Biorepository, a critical new facility in the Clinical and Translational Research Center that will serve as a powerful resource in driving biomedical innovation in academia and industry regionally and throughout the state.

  • 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.

  • Wirelessly Hacking Gene to Reprogram Human Genome
    8/2/19

    Just about everything is going wireless these days — including efforts to reprogram the human genome.