Recent Initiatives

UB-industry team drives health care innovation
12/2/20
UB scientists are working with startup Garwood Medical Devices to evaluate a medical device that utilizes UB-licensed technology and bring it a step closer to clinical use in amputees.
Interprofessional education ‘escape room’ goes virtual
10/30/20
The simulation exercise designed to promote teamwork among health care practitioners has adapted in the age of COVID-19.
O’Donnell stepping down as dean of pharmacy school
10/14/20
James M. O’Donnell will return to a role as a faculty member after seven years at the helm.
UB partners on project to develop COVID-19 blood test
4/27/20
The project with Roswell Park and Catholic Health aims to determine which patients will develop severe symptoms.
UB grad programs rank among the best
3/17/20
Several UB graduate schools and programs have been cited by U.S. News & World Report in its 2021 ranking of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”
Upcoming American College of Academic International Medicine 3rd Annual Congress
4/9/18
The American College of Academic International Medicine 3 Annual Congress this July at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York
SUNY Represented at Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference
3/19/18
This month investigators from SUNY University at Buffalo and SUNY Downstate Medical Center presented a poster at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference, in New York City. Investigators from all over the world gave presentations focusing on this year’s theme, “Health Disparities: A Time for Action,” which as the CUGH organizers explain, “reflect[s] one of the world’s great challenges: The increasing gap in opportunity, security, health and prosperity between the poor and middle class, and the rich, which continues to grow and threatens to undermine the gains in development we have seen over the last few decades.”
HRTP Supplement Awards
1/17/18
Two new UZ-UB NIH-Fogarty HIV Research Training Program Administrative Supplements were awarded to the University at Buffalo to increase behavioral and social science training opportunities with HIV research at the University of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Scholars Celia Matyanga and Doreen Mhandire Complete Mentored HIV Research Training at UB
12/19/17
Celia Matyanga and Doreen Mhandire, both HIV Research Training Program scholars, traveled to Buffalo from the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences.
CIGBS Faculty to UWI
12/11/17
A group of faculty from the Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) attended the Annual Research Conference at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, in Kingston, Jamaica this November. Gene Morse, PharmD, Director of CIGBS, Co-Director of the SUNY Global Health Institute, and SUNY Distinguished Professor, presented “Dual University System to Promote Health Research Collaboration to Achieve Sustainable Goals.”
Supriya Mahajan Presented at HIV and Aging: From the Mitochondria to the Metropolis at Emory University in November
12/4/17
Supriya Mahajan, PhD, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University at Buffalo presented, “Mitochondrial dysfunction in an aging HIV patient cohort with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND),” at the HIV and Aging: From the Mitochondria to the Metropolis at Emory University this November.
Professor Amy Jacobs Represents UB at the annual Global Virus Network Conference in Melbourne Australia
11/9/17
Amy Jacobs, PhD, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, represented the University at Buffalo, Global Virus Network Center of Excellence at the Annual Meeting in Melbourne, Australia in October 2017.
CIGBS 2nd Anniversary
10/1/17
The UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) turned two this past September! Over the past two years CIGBS has established an international scholar program, has done work with the Global Virus Network, the University of Zimbabwe, the University of the West Indies, and has even delved into Global cannabinoid drug development.
Tiffany Butterfield from UWI to GVN Course
9/12/17
This past August Tiffany Butterfield, a PhD candidate at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in the Department of Microbiology, attended a week long course administered by the Global Virus Network (GVN). A one-week intensive course on basic, translational, and clinical aspects of viruses of importance to human health.
Admire Dube NIH Award
8/29/17
Admire Dube, PhD, has received a NIH Emerging Global Leader Award, through the Fogarty International Center, for his research project regarding nanomedicine and the treatment of tuberculosis. Dube is a pharmaceutical scientist and Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.
Professor Gene Morse Presented at the NIH Office of AIDS Research and at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland
8/28/17
On August 21, Gene Morse, PharmD, presented at the NIH Office of AIDS Research monthly seminar program, and to the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland. The presentations focused on Creating Synergy between HIV Research, Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Development and Capacity Building Low and Middle Income Countries.
Tyler Mullen presented at National Association of Jamaican & Supportive Organizations (NAJASO) Conference
8/24/17
Tyler Mullen presented at the NAJASO 40th anniversary conference.
UB CIGBS International Scholar attends ACTG Annual Meeting
8/15/17
UB CIGBS International scholar traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the ACTG Annual Meeting
Paras Prasad Recieves 2017 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology
8/15/17
Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of UB’s Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, has won the 2017 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology. The award was presented at the annual IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology in July in Pittsburgh, PA.
World Hepatitis Day Video
7/31/17
Dr. Andrew Talal was interviewed on China Global Television Network whose broadcast can be seen in more than 85 million homes across more than 100 countries and territories.

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