Department News

The multitude of cancer research studies being conducted at the University at Buffalo was on full display at the UB Cancer Research Consortium Symposium.

Clinicians treating severe obesity have a new genetic tool for predicting — and ultimately improving — bariatric surgery outcomes. 

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences welcomed incoming students to its building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo Aug. 25 as part of Undergraduate Academics Day.

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of pharmacology and toxicology, delivered the Julius Axelrod Lecture and organized the Axelrod Symposium at the 2023 annual meeting of The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).

Panayotis Thanos, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, only knew of John Tyler as a student researcher in his lab who liked to work out when Tyler asked him for some time off in May.

Twenty-nine faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing 12 medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

The Office of Biomedical Education conducted its seventh annual white coat ceremony to recognize 23 students from the Class of 2022-2023 in the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PPBS) and two students from the MD-PhD Program who are matching to their doctoral laboratories.

Eighteen doctoral, 70 master’s and 226 baccalaureate candidates were eligible to receive degrees in biomedical science fields during the May commencement ceremony.

Ram Samudrala, PhD, professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and chief of its Division of Bioinformatics, and Zackary M. Falls, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, have been involved in research that has resulted in four recent successful funding projects — three grants and a challenge.

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo climbed two spots to No. 80 in the annual ranking of medical school research funding received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).