News and Announcements

The American College of Academic International Medicine 3 Annual Congress this July at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York

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.”

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

UB CIGBS International scholar traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the ACTG Annual Meeting

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.

Professor Gene Morse presents at the launch of a new textbook titled Pharmacognosy: Fundamentals, Applications and Strategy edited by two faculty from the University of the West Indies Mona Campus

Professor Gene D Morse will be presenting on behalf of the SUNY-UWI Health Research Task Force at the United Nations hosted Caribbean Action 2030 Conference in Kingston, Jamaica.

Five upcoming STEM events the WNY community can participate in with various interactive activities. See inside for links and additional details on how to get involved.

Two exciting speakers will be talking at Hayes Hall this week sponsored by the UB Community of Excellence in Global Health Equity: