Gender-affirming health care is easier to access in Western New York, thanks to a new webpage developed by UB medical students working with local clinicians.
Data-driven long COVID definition will help support public health initiatives while providing clinicians with a more nuanced basis for screening and diagnosis.
Sangita P. Patel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD), a condition that clouds the cornea.
Jian Feng, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics, an internationally renowned scientist who has dedicated his life to studying Parkinson’s disease, has received the 2024 Stockton Kimball Award for outstanding scientific achievement and service.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences celebrated scientific achievements and outstanding service and teaching contributions during its 2024 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards event.
Sarah Choudhury, a fourth-year medical student in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) scholarship to continue her cardiovascular disease research at the University at Buffalo.
Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members are among the University at Buffalo recipients of a 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.
GLP-1RA medications, such as those with brand names of Ozempic and Victoza, don’t put patients with a history of pancreatitis at increased risk for pancreatitis, and they may actually lower their risk.
This spring, during their spring break, Jacobs School medical students traveled to rural areas in Belize to train 100 farmers and villagers in lifesaving Stop the Bleed techniques.
New findings by UB researchers reveal that RNA editing may play a larger role in human biology and in the development of human disease than has generally been understood.
Students and laboratories affiliated with the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics graduate program (GGB) shared their findings during the 10th annual GGB Research Day.
UB Neurosurgery (UBNS) has been selected to participate in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s 2024 Student Summer Research Scholarship in Neurosurgery program.
The Argentieri family of Hornell, New York, is living proof of the wondrous scientific and medical advances that have been made in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF).
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical students working with community anti-violence groups in Buffalo have developed an elective course on “trauma surgery and trauma-informed care.”
The Empire Discovery Institute (EDI) has entered into a collaborative research partnership with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and its commercial development program Fast Forward, LLC, that builds on drug development research initiated by the late M. Laura Feltri, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of biochemistry and neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Drucy S. Borowitz, MD, clinical professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was a leading figure in cystic fibrosis care and research in Western New York for decades.
