School News

Chloe Cottone, a first-year medical student at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, had a problem that could have quickly derailed her dream of becoming a surgeon.

Second Look Weekend provides accepted students from groups historically underrepresented in medicine with the opportunity to learn more details about what the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the University at Buffalo have to offer.

Entrepreneurship is alive and well among medical students at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

A large crowd of inductees and their families and friends were in attendance for UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society induction.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical students who were recipients of 2022 Fellowships in Social Justice, Equity Administration and Leadership presented their research findings at a symposium April 19.

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, was honored with the 2023 Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology from the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health New Orleans.

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences graduated 175 medical students during the 177^th commencement on April 28.

Nicholas J. Silvestri, MD, clinical associate professor of neurology and associate dean for student and academic affairs, paid tribute to the late Jonathan D. Daniels, MD, during the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science’s annual Honors Convocation, which took place April 28 at UB’s Center for the Arts.

Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is the first SUNY-affiliated recipient of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Research Program Award (R35).

The first genome-wide significant study of the epigenetics of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has yielded a trove of genetic mechanisms and pathways that are responsible for this disease.

Matthew Cosmai will be honored by the American Geriatrics Society for a research project he completed during his field internship with Team Alice.

Lea Joan Kyle and Sydney Rae Swedick are recipients of the most prestigious research scholarship offered for undergraduate STEM students.

Since it first started receiving donations in 2012, the WNY Medical Scholarship Fund has raised more than $4 million from private donors, local hospitals and insurance companies and other businesses and has distributed scholarships to 31 Jacobs School students.

The UB Biophysics Research Day event provided an opportunity for the university’s biophysical research community to gather to share their work and reconnect with one another.