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2/8/22

Fifty-seven archetypal probe projects from aspiring physician-scientists were connected show astatine the 2022 Medical Student Research Forum.

10/31/22

A University astatine Buffalo grooming programme that aims to code the nation’s shortage of clinician-scientists has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

5/20/22

Sherice Simpson is the eighth Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical student to enactment successful the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).

2/18/22

As the COVID-19 pandemic maintains its grip connected the world, physicians astatine the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences continue to measurement up successful a myriad of ways to assistance the Western New York community.

11/4/22

The New England Journal of Medicine published a insubstantial Nov. 3 that described however children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma responded to a targeted therapy for the illness that has been effectual successful adults.

6/3/22

New probe led by Jian Feng, PhD, prof of physiology and biophysics, has important implications for processing aboriginal treatments for Parkinson’s illness (PD), a progressive tense strategy upset that affects movement, often including tremors.

5/20/22

New probe connected an enigmatic neurotransmitter receptor successful the encephalon reveals it whitethorn beryllium a promising people for aboriginal caller therapeutic treatments for a big of neurological diseases, according to Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, prof of biochemistry.

9/7/22

A summertime probe programme focused connected providing undergraduate students from divers groups guidance toward postgraduate and nonrecreational careers successful the biosciences precocious wrapped up a palmy 2022 campaign. 

7/21/22

A Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences scientist has launched 2 aviator studies that absorption connected however dietary interventions mightiness impact crab treatment. 

4/1/22

3/28/22

A survey led by Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers sheds airy connected knowing the familial causes of pediatric cardiomyopathy.

4/14/22

Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD, prof of medicine and main of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, has been elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR).

2/4/22

Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, subordinate prof of pediatrics successful the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded a $100,000 Microbial Pathogenesis successful Alzheimer’s Disease Grant by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation to research a imaginable nexus betwixt infectious diseases and Alzheimer’s disease.

1/10/22

A benignant of acupressure focused connected unit points successful the receptor could beryllium a promising attraction for functional abdominal symptom upset (FAPD), a challenging radical of disorders that origin chronic abdominal symptom successful 13.5 percent of children and adolescents.

1/28/22

A associated survey betwixt researchers astatine the University astatine Buffalo and UCLA demonstrates for the archetypal clip that a circumstantial benignant of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that teaches accusation processing skills tin modulate cardinal components of the brain-gut-microbiome axis successful immoderate of the astir terrible irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients.

10/14/22

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients whitethorn beryllium amended equipped to stave disconnected the cognitive diminution that the illness tin origin by utilizing a smartphone-based app present nether improvement astatine the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

9/20/22

The University astatine Buffalo and UBMD Physicians’ Group have launched the region’s lone agelong COVID registry successful bid to larn much astir the information and to link Western New Yorkers with attraction options and the imaginable to enactment successful objective trials.

9/23/22

Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, the A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair of pediatrics, is co-author connected a new paper that validates the semipermanent efficacy and information of metabolic and bariatric country (MBS) for attraction of teen obesity.

11/7/22

Even earlier she had made up her caput astir which vocation way to choose, exigency medicine has been astatine the halfway of E. Brooke Lerner’s nonrecreational life. 

11/14/22

A squad of Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers has published a paper that provides caller guidelines for clinicians erstwhile discussing encephalon atrophy with their aggregate sclerosis (MS) patients.

11/17/22

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers who person changed the mode concussions are treated person been awarded $4.8 cardinal from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to behaviour a objective proceedings to measure whether incorporating elements from the Buffalo Concussion Protocol to the DOD’s existent concussion protocol would amended outcomes for progressive members of the subject who prolong a concussion.

11/18/22

Viewing intentional unit arsenic a nationalist wellness contented has led Robert Gore, MD ’02, down an absorbing path, some personally and professionally.

8/10/22

Two undergraduate students successful the Department of Biochemistry have been selected arsenic recipients of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP).

4/22/22

Three trainees successful the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have received fellowships from the American Heart Association (AHA).

3/17/22

Students and laboratories affiliated with the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics postgraduate programme (GGB) shared their findings during the eighth yearly GGB Research Day.

2/25/22

A trainee successful the doctoral programme successful biochemistry has been awarded a two-year predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for her probe connected a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

2/1/22

A pupil successful UB’s summertime probe fellowship program, “Training the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists,” won the 2021 American Medical Association Research Challenge, emerging from much than 1,100 submissions to assertion the expansive prize of $10,000 successful the largest nationalist probe contention among aesculapian students, residents and fellows successful the country.

1/13/22

The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) has announced that Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of pharmacology and toxicology, is the recipient of the 2022 Julius Axelrod Award successful Pharmacology.

8/18/22

Developing a much effectual vaccine for tuberculosis is the extremity of probe led by Jonathan F. Lovell, PhD, SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor of biomedical engineering, that has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

8/30/22

Researchers astatine the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and their collaborators person developed almighty caller ways to survey and perchance reverse the cellular mechanisms that origin mitochondrial diseases and premature aging.

7/18/22

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences hosted the 2022 National Library of Medicine (NLM) T15 Informatics Training Conference June 22-24.

11/14/22

A Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researcher has been awarded a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute assistance to research however changes successful arterial stiffness elicit vascular creaseless musculus compartment (VSMC) behaviors that lend to cardiovascular disease.

4/21/22

This spring, a radical of Western New Yorkers with aggregate sclerosis (MS) volition statesman helping University astatine Buffalo researchers interruption caller crushed successful the survey of this unpredictable, neurodegenerative illness that affects astir 3 cardinal radical astir the globe. 

4/6/22

Mausma Bawa, MD, a trainee successful the neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship, has been selected arsenic 1 of 3 early-stage investigators — successful collaboration with the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) Junior Section — to contiguous astatine the 125th yearly gathering of the Japan Pediatric Society April 15-17 successful Fukushima, Japan.

11/6/22

“Your babe has a familial disease.” It’s 1 of the astir terrifying things that caller parents tin hear. Yet it often turns retired not to beryllium existent because, portion newborn screening is highly close for galore communal conditions, screening accuracy rates for uncommon — adjacent fatal — conditions tin beryllium abysmal, according to genetics specialists.

11/30/22

For teens who person struggled with obesity, it astir apt sounded excessively bully to beryllium true: a play injection that could assistance them power their eating and pb to value loss. But the results of the objective proceedings connected the cause semaglutide, released earlier this period successful the New England Journal of Medicine and presented astatine the discipline’s large conference, Obesity Week, turned retired to beryllium amended than thing the participants — oregon adjacent the researchers — expected.

3/17/22

Steven  J. Fliesler, PhD, has been awarded the University astatine Buffalo Graduate School’s 2021-2022 Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award.

4/2/22

Stephen T. Koury, PhD, probe subordinate prof of biotechnical and objective laboratory sciences, has been awarded a $1.3 cardinal assistance that volition let precocious schoolhouse students and teachers the accidental to execute genome sequencing of bacteria.

2/2/22

Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, prof and seat of surgery, has partnered with Swiss aesculapian acquisition institution VirtaMed to proceedings 1 of the company’s caller mixed-reality laparoscopic simulators — the LaparoS. 

1/19/22

Researchers successful the Department of Biomedical Engineering person successfully freeze-dried a liposome-based liquid vaccine look that could beryllium developed for imaginable usage successful COVID-19 vaccines.

10/19/22

Research by Matthew A. Wysocki, doctoral campaigner successful the computational compartment biology, anatomy and pathology (CCBAP) program, has been published successful the diary Scientific Reports.

2/9/22

E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, and Brian Clemency, DO, professors of exigency medicine, are co-principal investigators connected a caller survey of age-based dosing of seizure medications successful the prehospital setting. 

1/14/22

Darshana Govind, PhD, extols the virtues of researching artificial intelligence. She’s truthful enthusiastic astir it, she wants to promote much women to participate the field.

11/30/22

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Retina Research Foundation’s (RRF) Paul Kayser International Award successful Retina Research presented by the International Society for Eye Research (ISER).