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Scientists Honored for Work on Host-Microbe Interactions
4/15/21
Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, and Elsa Bou Ghanem, PhD, both assistant professors of microbiology and immunology, are being recognized as highly-promising, early-career scientists in the field of host-microbe interactions by the American Society for Microbiology’s Infection and Immunity (IAI) Journal.
Jacobs School Students Chosen for LaunchPad Fellowships
4/14/21
The honors continue for Limitless Medical Technologies (LMT), a University at Buffalo startup which produces a leak-sensing film that works with an app to monitor patients who have had intestinal repairs.
Chronic Social Isolation Stress Focus of Preclinical Study
4/9/21
The mental health crisis that has resulted from the imposition of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 has been widely observed around the world.
Researchers Detect California COVID-19 Variants in WNY
4/9/21
Researchers from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have found evidence of the so-called California variants of COVID-19 — B.1.427 and B.1.429 — in virus samples of Western New Yorkers who tested positive in January by using genetic sequencing to decode the genes of SARS-CoV-2 and better understand how it is evolving.
UB Chapter Inducts 39 Into AOA Honor Medical Society
3/30/21
Thirty-three medical students and six residents are inductees to the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.
UB Leading Way in WNY’s Fight Against COVID-19
3/29/21
The University at Buffalo is playing a key role in helping Western New York defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Promotes Single Case Study Experimental Designs
3/26/21
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the undisputed gold standard for determining whether a treatment protocol is effective for a specific disease or condition.
Rapid Printing Moves Toward 3D-Printed Tissue, Organs
3/25/21
Ruogang Zhao, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is at the forefront of a technological development that significantly speeds up the production of 3D-printed human tissue and organs.
Models Show WNY Already Benefiting From Vaccinations
3/22/21
New models developed by University at Buffalo data scientists show that Western New York is already benefiting from COVID-19 vaccinations.
Match Day 2021
3/19/21
Medical students in the University at Buffalo’s Class of 2021 learned where they will train in residency at Match Day, which is a rite of passage for prospective physicians.
Student’s Apparel Company Extols Activism in Medicine
3/19/21
Fourth-year medical student Karole Collier has created an apparel company that celebrates activism in medicine.
First Human Trials Begin for COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
3/18/21
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate, under development by UB spinoff company POP Biotechnologies Inc. and South Korean biotech company EuBiologics Co. Ltd., has started human trials in South Korea.
6 Faculty Members Join 5 Medical School Departments
3/15/21
Six faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing five medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.
Human Rights Initiative Shares its Expertise
3/15/21
Since its inception in 2014, the Human Rights Initiative at the University at Buffalo (HRI), a medical student group, has played an important role in helping to document and assess evidence of torture in people seeking refuge and asylum in Western New York.
Physiology Doctoral Student Wins Journal’s ‘Paper of Year’
3/12/21
Research led by Bianca Natalia Quade, a trainee in the physiology doctoral program, has been cited as the “Paper of the Year” for 2020 by American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology.