School News

Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members and one staff member have been selected as recipients of 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

Four researchers who worked in the laboratory of Zhen Yan, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics, are putting their scientific talents to use in new positions.

The surprise induction of Michael E. Cain, MD, outgoing dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and vice president for health sciences, into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) highlighted this year’s ceremony.

Graduate Medical Education Awards of Excellence have been presented to the physician who directs the emergency medicine residency program and the administrator of the residency programs in internal medicine and internal medicine-preventive medicine.

Third-year medical student Geoffrey Bocobo has had a very productive year thus far in 2021.

More than 200 freshman and transfer students in the undergraduate biomedical education program were welcomed to campus as part of the first-ever Undergraduate Academic Spotlight Day Aug. 27 on UB’s South Campus.

Four medical residents, three medical students and one postdoctoral associate earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s third annual Celebration of Scholarship.

Forty-three student-scientists presented projects during the 10th Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

Vascular surgeons in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences organized the first-ever Women’s Vascular Summit in 2019, with attendees from around the country.

Twelve residents from the family medicine residency program are providing patient care at Jericho Road Community Health Center’s new family medicine clinic at 182 Breckenridge St. on Buffalo’s West Side.

Any Western New Yorker who now tests positive for COVID-19 almost certainly has contracted the delta variant, according to scientists at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Nine 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.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is leading an effort to promote vaccination against COVID-19 among pregnant women in Western New York.

A mentee of Sanjay Sethi, MD, has received an award that could ultimately help lower hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).