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.
“The Future of Health” — a forward-looking report jointly released today by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and the Jacobs Institute — heralds massive potential for improving health care in the United States.
Thirty-two faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing 12 medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.