It's been another exciting year in the Biochemistry department, and despite the travails of the NIH budget, both the department and the faculty research portfolio remains strong.
More than 150 years have elapsed since endometriosis was discovered and described. Yet, until now, no scholarly history has ever been written about the disease, which affects millions of women worldwide.
The inaugural Combined Summer Undergraduate Research Day featured the research of talented students who came to UB and HWI from around the country to participate in summer programs.
Butler auditorium sits vacant on an August afternoon, awaiting a fresh wave of students to fill its seats in the upcoming fall semester. When a bevy of new faces finally greet this room and cycle through these seats once again, one surefire constant will remain: Dr. Murray Ettinger will be here to help them.
A University at Buffalo psychiatry professor has received an NIH grant to develop a uniform vocabulary describing chronic pain and related disability, mental health and quality of life issues.
Thomas J. Covey, a third-year graduate student in the Neuroscience Program, has received a highly competitive Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship from the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA).
Elie A. Akl, MD, PhD, recently served as guideline methodologist for the World Health Organization's recommendations to decrease HIV/AIDS rates among men who have sex with men and transgender individuals.
Fourth-year medical student Sara Hansen couldn't believe that her Joseph Collins Foundation scholarship was twice the amount previous awardees had received.
Undergraduates from across the country have come to UB this summer to participate in a mentoring research program launched by Margarita Dubocovich, PhD.
A major grant from the Oishei Foundation will expand bioinformatics and computational biology at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD ’78, professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, will become only the 65th physician in the ASA’s century-plus history to receive its highest tribute for service and achievement.
Since being named dean of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Michael E. Cain, MD, has appointed six new chairs and high-level physician-scientists.
Hundreds of international scientists will gather at UB this month to help develop a common language of biomedical terms that can be uniformly interpreted by people and computers.
Beatrice L. Wood, PhD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, received the 2011 Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.
Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members from the department have been invited to present at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Melatonin Receptors.
Passage of NYSUNY 2020 legislation provides revenue needed to implement the next phase of UB 2020, which includes relocating the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo.
Two University at Buffalo physicians have developed a computerized screening tool that could make it easier and faster to identify sleep apnea in heart patients.
Tomaszewski comes from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he serves as interim chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Margarita Dubocovich, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, won awards for melatonin receptor research and mentoring postdocs.
Michael E. Cain, MD, has been named vice president for health sciences in addition to continuing in his role as dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
An announcement at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting that the drug exemestane significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer in high-risk, postmenopausal women is the result of a clinical trial in which UB researchers and women in Western New York played a critical role.
Two UB life-sciences entrepreneurs—one a surgeon and the other a biomedical engineer—are launching the first-ever software modules for teaching robot-assisted surgical procedures.
UB leaders have submitted a proposal to the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program in support of a plan to relocate the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to downtown Buffalo.
A presentation on the Clinical and Translational Science Institute will be among the highlights of this year’s UB Partners Day to be held on June 3 at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has stopped the AIM-HIGH clinical research trial 18 months earlier than planned due to lack of efficacy in reducing cardiovascular events.
The Undergraduate and Graduate Biomedical Sciences Commencement for the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences took place on May 12, 2011, at the Center for the Arts.
The honored speaker at the 2011 commencement for the Biomedical Sciences was Constance Brinckerhoff, PhD ’68, Nathan Smith Professor of Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry, and associate dean of science at the Dartmouth Medical School.
Paul R. Knight III, MD, PhD, received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in recognition of his “consistently outstanding scholarly and creative productivity.”
