School News

Interprofessional collaboration is a key component in addressing the nation’s opioid epidemic, students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and other UB schools were told during the third annual forum on the topic.

The recipients of this year’s Dean’s and Nader Research Fellowships have a wide range of research interests and knowledge.

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

Andrew H. Talal, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, has been appointed to New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s task force that will advise the state on its Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Elimination Campaign.

Research led by Jonathan F. Lovell, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has provided a breakthrough in efforts to boost the efficacy of malarial transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV).

The so-called mystery paralysis that has now affected more than 70 children in the United States this year is understandably causing concern among parents, but it is extremely rare, according to Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Gross anatomy class — arguably the most memorable class that medical students take — has a new home.

Bruce R. Troen, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, was honored by the Amherst Senior Citizens Foundation (ASCF) with its Senior Leadership Award.

Eleven faculty, three emeritus faculty and one staff member from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were among those honored for notable achievement and service at the 15th annual University at Buffalo Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.

Research by Yun Wu, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has led to a cancer-spotting tool that health care providers could eventually use in areas that lack hospitals, clinics and other treatment centers.

Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members are among those honored with achievement awards by the University at Buffalo Alumni Association.

Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, Carman and Ann Adams Endowed Chair of Pediatric Research at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, has been appointed the A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

Ten students in the medical education program received special recognition during the fall honors convocation.

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics that rigorously assessed how the home environments of young children who are genetically at high risk for obesity can influence whether they become overweight or obese is being praised by University at Buffalo child obesity experts.