A coalition of community groups and activists is coming together with UB planners and researchers to radically transform one Black East Side neighborhood, and to do it sooner rather than later.
Delicious aromas, colorful displays and upbeat sounds filled the atrium of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Dec. 1 as the school’s chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) presented the 2023 edition of its Taste of Culture event.
The National Institutes of Health has renewed its funding of eye disease research led by Mark D. Parker, PhD, associate professor of physiology and biophysics.
UB’s Community Health Equity Research Institute is launching its first-ever pilot funding program to address health equities and adverse social determinants of health. The institute will fund two projects with a maximum budget of $40,000 each.
Children taking psychostimulant drugs prescribed for psychiatric disorders who experience a common childhood fracture take longer to heal than children who don’t take these drugs.
UB researchers found that more than 90 % of those in the telemedicine arm at an opioid treatment program were cured of HCV infection compared to 35.2% of participants referred to an offsite specialist.
Teresa Quattrin, MD, UB Distinguished Professor of pediatrics, is a co-author on a new global study that suggests a novel treatment option for children with achondroplasia — a form of severe short stature.
Lindsey M. Alico, a Western New York native who, until recently, was co-director of the genetic counseling program at Sarah Lawrence College, has been hired to implement and direct the genetic counseling program at UB.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has received a $40,000 grant from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) for a novel addition to its internal medicine residency program.
The National Institutes of Health has continued the funding of research by Kedar Aras, PhD, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, to study cardiac obesity.
The Igniting Hope conference has matured into a movement aimed at bringing lasting change to the region by ending race-based disparities and their devastating impacts.
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology has two new faculty members starting later this year who are eager to recruit new members to their research labs.
