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  • 9/20/24 About Us
  • 10/20/20 Our Services
  • 1/27/22 Our Projects
  • 5/18/23 Recent Initiatives
  • 6/21/25 News and Announcements
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  • Recent Initiatives
Learn more about our most recent initiatives below:
  • Concept of Instacart shopping featuring a phone that looks like a paper grocery bag with food and a reciept sticking out of the top.
    Study: Family grocery purchases improved when online grocery carts were preloaded with healthy ingredients
    12/3/25

    UB researchers have shown that preloading Instacart online grocery carts with healthy ingredients could be a useful tool for improving the diets of families with young kids at risk for obesity. 

  • A person walking into a polling place.
    UB study reveals shift in pharmacy students’ perceptions of patients with mental illness
    12/1/25

    Published study indicates that presenting facts can influence views, reduce stigmas.

  • Illustration of the human pancreas and detail of a cluster of cells.
    UB pharmacy researcher makes diabetes breakthrough in $3.5 million funded study
    12/1/25

    Discovery featured on cover of Analytical Chemistry could potentially slow progression to full-blown diabetes.

  • Troy Woodard.
    UB’s Jacobs School names Troy Woodard chair of the Department of Otolaryngology
    12/1/25

    Troy D. Woodard, MD, section head of rhinology, sinus and skull base surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, has been appointed chair of the Department of Otolaryngology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and president and chief executive officer of UB Otolaryngology.

  • A medical professional examines a woman with a large bruise on her head.
    ‘We can’t wait until 2042’ writes UB expert about implementing new guidelines for treating concussion/mild TBI
    11/24/25

    A UB expert wrote an editorial accompanying the new clinical practice guidelines for treating adults with concussion or mild traumatic brain injury and geared toward primary care providers.

  • Close up of a person wearing a continuous glucose monitor and the phone app.
    Study explores AI-enhanced wearable devices for Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes care
    11/20/25

    UB researchers have published the first comprehensive meta-review of AI-enhanced wearables for people with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes. 

  • Medical training dummy simulates infant CPR procedure, showing hands performing chest compressions.
    New pediatric basic life support guidelines seek to improve outcomes, optimize care, says UB co-author
    11/12/25

    Significantly improving survival odds after sudden cardiac arrest in children and adolescents is the goal of the 2025 Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care for pediatric patients. 

  • Lucy Mastrandrea standing in white coat.
    UB professor elected to the American Pediatric Society
    11/11/25

    Lucy D. Mastrandrea, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to membership in the American Pediatric Society.

  • Synaptic cleft changes.
    Study: UB research overturns prevailing assumptions about NMDA receptor calcium signals
    11/6/25

    Surprising findings published in PNAS have implications for understanding and treating neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. 

  • A physical therapist working with a patient.
    Western New Yorkers were significant contributors to major NEJM study that confirmed exercise and PT help ease knee pain
    10/29/25

    More than half the participants in a national study on exercise and PT for knee pain were UBMD Ortho patients. 

  • View of exterior of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science with surrounding buildings reflected in the glass façade.
    To boost the number of physicians serving Buffalo, the Jacobs School is launching the Buffalo Primary Care Initiative
    10/23/25

    The goal of the new, three-year MD program with full scholarships is to increase the number of primary care physicians in Buffalo’s East and West side neighborhoods.

  • A group of sugeons in an operating room.
    In a first at an ambulatory surgery center, UB neurosurgeons placed a carotid artery stent and the patient was discharged the same day
    10/20/25

    The neurosurgeons say this marks a paradigm shift in how complex neurovascular interventions can safely be delivered. 

  • Alison Brashear.
    Allison Brashear is elected to the National Academy of Medicine
    10/20/25

    Election to the academy, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. 

  • Megan DeAngelis is pointing to an image of the macula on a slide that is projected on the wall behind her.
    Is age-related macular degeneration different in women? UB ophthalmology researchers are investigating
    10/15/25

    Researchers have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to study sex-specific mechanisms for AMD. 

  • Anthony Martinez is standing in the clinic with a poster about hepatitis C on the wall.
    Fatty liver disease is a growing, silent epidemic, especially among younger patients, says UB physician
    10/14/25

    Once almost exclusively seen in older adults, fatty liver disease, which can be fatal if untreated, is now one of the world’s fastest-growing diseases. And it’s increasingly occurring in young people as well. 

  • Joshua Lynch delivers a presentation about MATTERS.
    Joshua Lynch accepted into national drug abuse program for innovators
    10/9/25

    Johns Hopkins recognizes emergency medicine professor for his pioneering opioid treatment program.

  • From left: Jennifer Surtees, Paul Vanouse, Dan Shanahan at Torn Space Theater.
    Science + art + theater = new ways to bridge disciplines
    10/9/25

    A partnership between two UB faculty members and Buffalo’s Torn Space Theater is one of just 15 groups nationwide that have been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Simons Foundation.

  • A young child about to receive a vaccination shot from a medical professional.
    UB pediatric pharmacist explains facts behind childhood vaccines
    10/8/25

    William Prescott has expertise in vaccinations and vaccine hesitancy.

  • Nancy Nielsen.
    Expert: Prolonged government shutdown will start impacting Americans’ health care within a month
    10/3/25

    Shutdown could also cause health insurance premiums to rise, resulting in more Americans becoming uninsured, says Nancy Nielsen.

  • Steven Lipshultz.
    UB pediatrics professor Steven Lipshultz named American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist
    10/1/25

    The designation honors members of the AHA and American Stroke Association who have made extraordinary contributions to cardiovascular, stroke and brain health research.

  • Murali Ramanathan.
    Pharmacy school AI lab evolving to improve drug development, advance clinical research
    10/1/25

    Lab director optimistic about more effective treatments for MS and Alzheimer's disease.

  • An older adult using a glucometer.
    Study: Older adults with prediabetes who have low levels of education are at highest risk for developing cardiovascular complications
    10/1/25

    The study found that limited education — defined as those who did not graduate high school — consistently predicted worse outcomes across all three major cardiometabolic indicators.

  • Three figures showing the NMDA receptor in the closed primed and open positions.
    Study: Researchers produce the first-ever image of an open NMDA receptor
    9/24/25

    Researchers have captured for the first time and in exquisite detail pictures of NMDA receptors in a fully open conformation.

  • A turbulence chamber in a lab.
    Engineers uncover why tiny particles form clusters in turbulent air
    9/19/25

    Finding could improve predictions for wildfire smoke, extreme rainfall, pharmaceutical development and more.

  • On one side a rat is running on a treadmill, labelled "HIIT Exercise;" on the other side a rat is sitting still, labelled "Sedentary Control.".
    Study: In lab animals exposed to cocaine, High-Intensity Interval Training boosts aversion to the drug
    9/17/25

    Researchers reveal that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) was more effective than moderate exercise in making adolescent lab animals avoid cocaine.

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