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Fifteen students in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored for outstanding achievements at the University at Buffalo’s 2021 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence.

Fourteen Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences teachers, five residents, four medical students and three staff members received 2021 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.

Cain’s leadership dramatically transformed medical education, research and clinical care in Western New York.

The University at Buffalo’s Community Health Equity Research Institute continues to develop innovative solutions to address health disparities in Buffalo’s African American community.

The Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences’ pathology residency program has received reaccreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, has been named a 2020 fellow of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and a 2021 Scientific Achievement Award winner.

A pair of research studies led by Fraser J. Sim, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, reveal important new findings as to how regeneration of myelin in multiple sclerosis (MS) fails and, potentially, more efficient ways to treat it.

Vaccinations may be dominating the headlines, but clinicians are well aware that an effective treatment for COVID-19 — especially for patients who don’t require hospitalization — is still sorely needed.

Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, and Elsa Bou Ghanem, PhD, both assistant professors of microbiology and immunology, are being recognized as highly-promising, early-career scientists in the field of host-microbe interactions by the American Society for Microbiology’s Infection and Immunity (IAI) Journal.

The honors continue for Limitless Medical Technologies (LMT), a University at Buffalo startup which produces a leak-sensing film that works with an app to monitor patients who have had intestinal repairs.

The mental health crisis that has resulted from the imposition of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 has been widely observed around the world. 

Researchers from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have found evidence of the so-called California variants of COVID-19 — B.1.427 and B.1.429 — in virus samples of Western New Yorkers who tested positive in January by using genetic sequencing to decode the genes of SARS-CoV-2 and better understand how it is evolving.

Thirty-three medical students and six residents are inductees to the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.

The University at Buffalo is playing a key role in helping Western New York defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the undisputed gold standard for determining whether a treatment protocol is effective for a specific disease or condition.

Ruogang Zhao, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is at the forefront of a technological development that significantly speeds up the production of 3D-printed human tissue and organs.

New models developed by University at Buffalo data scientists show that Western New York is already benefiting from COVID-19 vaccinations.

Medical students in the University at Buffalo’s Class of 2021 learned where they will train in residency at Match Day, which is a rite of passage for prospective physicians.

Fourth-year medical student Karole Collier has created an apparel company that celebrates activism in medicine.

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate, under development by UB spinoff company POP Biotechnologies Inc. and South Korean biotech company EuBiologics Co. Ltd., has started human trials in South Korea.