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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The University at Buffalo is playing a key role in helping Western New York defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the undisputed gold standard for determining whether a treatment protocol is effective for a specific disease or condition.

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.

New models developed by University at Buffalo data scientists show that Western New York is already benefiting from COVID-19 vaccinations.

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.

Fourth-year medical student Karole Collier has created an apparel company that celebrates activism in medicine.

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.

Brandon G. Ginley and Nicholas Lucarelli, two students in the Computational Cell Biology, Anatomy and Pathology doctoral program, received Pathologist In Training Best Abstract Awards.

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.

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.

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.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences leaders are playing key roles in safely, efficiently and equitably getting Western New York residents vaccinated against COVID-19 through an initiative called Vaccinate Western New York (VAXWNY).

The Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic (LFMC) conducted a virtual auction fundraiser in early February to help it meet the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and to expand care for underserved communities.

Manoj J. Mammen, MD, has co-authored an update of the first international guidelines on treating patients severely ill with COVID-19.

The Department of Surgery has launched an anti-racism and health care equity initiative to address and mitigate the effects of systemic racism and inequality in health care.