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To advance equity and professional development for medical students, trainees, and physicians with disabilities, John D. Hall, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, recently authored a position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP). 

The award honors scholarly or creative activities that have already achieved significant recognition and hold strong promise for field-defining impact.

Jamie A. Abbott, PhD, a research scientist and research assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) for her research on schizophrenia.

Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received additional funding from the National Eye Institute for his research on retinal development, which could help develop strategies to treat degenerative retinal diseases such as glaucoma.

The 2026 cohort of CTSI K Scholars features faculty from the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. The mentored career-development program enhances research and professional development. 

To improve the care experience for patients by educating and engaging their providers, a multidisciplinary team of University at Buffalo researchers is launching the online WNY Long COVID Resource Center.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) could help overcome longstanding barriers to building a “learning health care system” that integrates research and clinical care, Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, said during the 2026 Harrington Lecture.

UB cancer researchers published a study on why young people vape, and used AI to determine the best ways to get them to stop.

On April 25, the fourth annual research day presented by UB’s Community Health Equity Research Institute (CHERI) brought together researchers, students, community partners, leaders and others to explore and advance health equity research.

The Association for Clinical and Translational Science has honored Peter L. Elkin, MD, UB Distinguished Professor and chair of biomedical informatics, with inclusion in the inaugural cohort of Fellows of ACTS.

Multimodal model delivers personalized risk estimates and clinician-adjustable insights to support surgical decisions.

In patients with myasthenia gravis, the surgical removal of the thymus gland added “quality adjusted life years” to patients and was also cost-effective.

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, has been honored by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) as a member of the inaugural cohort of Fellows of ACTS (FACTS).

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are leveraging a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to advance their mechanistic insights into gut microbes.

New York State has awarded the Department of Psychiatry a grant to provide culturally-appropriate, trauma-informed mental health support for Western New York’s Afghan community.

Both historic redlining and contemporary structural racism are linked with higher diabetes occurrence among African Americans.

An early-career scientist from UB is a co-author on the study, which provides important information for clinicians and bystanders alike.

Second-year medical student Cheng Qin has been selected as a 2026–27 Sarnoff fellow to partake in a yearlong program of intensive cardiovascular medicine research.

The FDA has approved a drug for patients who are 12 and older with classical Hodgkin lymphoma based on the results of a randomized clinical trial led by a UB researcher. 

In a first for Buffalo, bacteriophage therapy, which harnesses living viruses, sucessfully treated a patient with a chronic MRSA bacterial infection.