News

Stay in touch with research developments featuring UB CTSI investigators and other newsworthy accomplishments from around the Buffalo Translational Consortium and the national Clinical and Translational Science Award network.

Social Distancing: Do It for Yourself, Your Family and Your Community. It Will Save Lives.
3/17/20
The early interventions implemented in St. Louis during the 1918 influenza pandemic led to lower death rates than in Philadelphia, a city that implemented interventions later.
Gift to UB Names Murphy Family Seminar Room
2/7/20
Individuals who have recently attended a workshop, meeting or program in the Clinical and Translational Research Center’s seminar room 5019 may have noticed new signage at the entrance to and inside the room.
CTSI Offers Digital Badges in Two New Areas
1/7/20

Good Clinical Practice and Effective Teaching digital badges will be offered beginning with workshop series this spring. The CTSI digital badges are designed to enhance knowledge and skills related to clinical and translational research. These new digital badges add to the two the CTSI launched last year on Responsible Conduct of Research and Scientific Communication.

2020 CTSI Scholars Cohort: Call for Proposals
12/17/19

The Clinical and Translational Science Award-linked KL2 Mentored Career Development Award (KL2-MCDA) is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) from outstanding junior faculty, and senior fellows transitioning to junior faculty positions to join the 2020 cohort of CTSI Scholars. Selected candidates will receive research mentoring, career and professional development, and partial salary and research support.   

Winners of annual Clinical Research Achievement Awards announced
12/17/19

Winners of the Buffalo Translational Consortium (BTC) 2019 Clinical Research Achievement Awards performed research studies surrounding topics of aerobic exercise recovery in sport-related concussion, mechanistic insights on prostate cancer health disparity in American men, and hospital naloxone treatment for suspected opioid overdose.

CTSI's Translational Imaging Core makes high-tech scanning technology available to investigators
12/3/19
The importance of sophisticated imaging technology in medical research is difficult to dispute.
Team Science Core trains multidisciplinary teams to work together more efficiently, effectively
11/19/19
When many people think about scientific research, they often picture a lonely professor with a test tube or in front of his computer. But increasingly, that picture is changing.
Not Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus: Community Engagement Improves CTSI Research Programming
11/19/19

The 2019 “Tricks, Treats and Science Discoveries: Free Family Fun and Learning Fair” was a success. Over 260 community members – all clad in their best Halloween costumes – filled the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on Saturday, October 26.