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Gil I. Wolfe, MD, UB Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of neurology, has been appointed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee.

As the COVID-19 pandemic maintains its grip on the world, physicians at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences continue to step up in a myriad of ways to help the Western New York community.

Fifty-seven original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2022 Medical Student Research Forum.

The start of the spring semester has come with questions about the need for a COVID-19 booster shot, which is strongly encouraged for UB employees and required by SUNY for students once medically eligible.

Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded a $100,000 Microbial Pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease Grant by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation to explore a potential link between infectious diseases and Alzheimer’s disease.

Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, professor and chair of surgery, has partnered with Swiss medical education company VirtaMed to trial one of the company’s new mixed-reality laparoscopic simulators — the LaparoS. 

A student in UB’s summer research fellowship program, “Training the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists,” won the 2021 American Medical Association Research Challenge, emerging from more than 1,100 submissions to claim the grand prize of $10,000 in the largest national research competition among medical students, residents and fellows in the country.

A joint study between researchers at the University at Buffalo and UCLA demonstrates for the first time that a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that teaches information processing skills can modulate key components of the brain-gut-microbiome axis in some of the most severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients.

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has named seven Department of Emergency Medicine faculty members as 2021 New York ACEP Unsung Heroes for their dedicated clinical care.  

Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering have successfully freeze-dried a liposome-based liquid vaccine formula that could be developed for potential use in COVID-19 vaccines.

A national study led by Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences emergency medicine physicians has found that patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 who are treated with an inhaled steroid are significantly less likely to require emergency department care or hospitalization due to COVID-19 than those treated with placebo.

Darshana Govind, PhD, extols the virtues of researching artificial intelligence. She’s so enthusiastic about it, she wants to encourage more women to enter the field.

The Igniting Hope Conference continues to focus on the urgent challenges of long-standing health disparities in Buffalo’s African American community.

Elad I. Levy, MD, the L. Nelson Hopkins III, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, has been named president-elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).

Jacobs School physicians urge anyone who is pregnant or trying to conceive to prioritize getting all three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine (two doses and the booster) as soon as they can.

During the current surge of COVID-19 cases in Western New York, a dedicated team  has been busy sequencing and analyzing as many as 1,000 viral samples every week.

Last year, Taste of Culture was one of many events wiped out by COVID-19. This year, organizers of the event brought it back — and they made it even bigger and better than before.