School News

Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, wrote a chapter titled “The Vaccine, Public Trust, and Doubt,” in the book “Playing With Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What is There.”

UB receives $4 million from NIAID to develop new treatments that prevent 'hypermutations' in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

John J. Leddy, MD ’85, clinical professor of orthopaedics and one of the foremost world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of concussion, has received the 2022 Stockton Kimball Award for outstanding scientific achievement and service.

The scientist, who with a collaborator, invented and developed the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that is the basis for Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, embodies the textbook definition of perseverance.

UB’s Global Health Day Symposium brought together experts from WHO, NIH and UB to discuss the next stages of response to the pandemic.

The Women’s Vascular Summit, hosted at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, continues to shine a light on disparities in vascular care between men and women and to promote research and education to initiate change.

Twenty-eight doctoral, 62 master’s and 205 baccalaureate candidates were eligible to receive degrees in biomedical science fields during the May commencement ceremony.

The school lit its atrium orange and encouraged its members to wear the color to honor those who have died or been injured by gun violence.

Dara Kass met with UB and community partners about the innovative opioid treatment program developed by UB physicians.

New research led by Jian Feng, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics, has important implications for developing future treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement, often including tremors.

Arin Bhattacharjee, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, has been selected to serve on the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Neuropathy of Pain and Itch (NPI) Study Section for a four-year term.

The induction of Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical students, residents, fellows and faculty into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) provided an opportunity to shine a light on countless acts of compassion.