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Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, has been named the inaugural senior associate dean for inclusion and cultural enhancement.

A T35 training grant from the NIH is providing stipends for UB medical students to participate in mentored research projects this summer at UB and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

For the second year in a row, a UB medical student has won the prestigous American Medical Association Foundation Minority Scholars Award.

Gil I. Wolfe, MD, professor and chair of neurology, helped organize the 12th International Conference on Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders.

Thomas Melendy, PhD, has identified a protein interaction that could present the first viable, broad-range drug target for human papilloma virus.

Thomas Russo and colleagues are studying a hypervirulent strain of a common bacterium that has the potential to become a superbug.

Kunle Odunsi, director of RPCI’s Center for Immunotherapy and UB professor of gynecology and obstetrics, is leading a phase 1 clinical trial of the dendritic cell vaccine.

Paresh Dandona and colleagues have received a grant to further a study that found that a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes could also help Type 1 diabetics.

Gil I. Wolfe, MD, was installed as the The Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor and Chair in Neurology Feb. 17 in a ceremony presided over by Satish K. Tripathi and Michael E. Cain, MD.

PhD candidate Bethany Rankin has received a Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Sanjay Sethi is researching better drugs for COPD; Thomas Russo is exploring new targets for a multidrug-resistant pathogen.

UB’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities has awarded funding to six students conducting research in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Timothy F. Murphy, MD, has been named director of the UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute, scheduled to open this May on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

A drug commonly used to help people with Type 2 diabetes control blood sugar has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect, UB researchers find.

With a major grant, family medicine physicians at UB are forming a council that will develop curricula and national standards of excellence for postgraduate medical education programs in addiction medicine.

Thomas Melendy, PhD, says the HPV vaccine is safe and effective.

Gil I. Wolfe, MD, a leading authority on neuromuscular disorders, has been named the Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology.

Study overturns conventional wisdom that elevated estradiol concentrations cause hypogonadism in men with Type 2 diabetes.