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Learn more about our most recent initiatives below:
  • Inside the lab at Garwood Medical Devices.
    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.

  • Concept of an escape room game.
    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.

  • Dr. James O'Donnell pictured sitting at his desk.
    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.

  • Technician placing blood tubes in the laboratory centrifuge.
    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.

  • Students in silhouette walking.
    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.”

  • AIM logo.
    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
  • CUGH Conference Room.
    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.”
  • CIGBS Scholars in Zimbabwe visiting Zvandiri House.
    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.
  • Doreen Duri, Veronica Hogel, Waheed Adedeji, Celia Matyanga standing together.
    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.  
  • UB Team on the UWI Mona Campus.
    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.
  • Green letters spelling G-V-N for Global Virus Network logo.
    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 team in Harare Zimbabwe with Zvandiri Support Group.
    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 Profile Picture.
    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, PhD.
    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.
  • IHV Building.
    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 picture.
    Tyler Mullen presented at National Association of Jamaican & Supportive Organizations (NAJASO) Conference
    8/24/17

    Tyler Mullen presented at the NAJASO 40th anniversary conference.

  • Dr. Qing Ma and Dr. Waheed Adedeji in Washington, DC.
    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
  • Dr. Paras Prasad in his lab.
    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.

  • Dr. Talal.
    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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  • 1/28/21 Recent News
  • 9/1/20 Center Affiliations
  • 1/18/21 UB 2020
  • 9/7/22 About UB
  • 5/4/17 About Buffalo-Niagara
  • 3/8/18 Contact Us

What We Do

  • 7/25/17 Integrating Patient Communities
  • 1/28/21 Zimbabwe Center of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 3/8/18 Global Translational Pharmacology and Drug Development
  • 1/27/22 SUNY Global Health Institute
  • 2/23/21 SUNY UWI (University of the West Indies)
  • 5/4/17 Western New York STEM Hub
  • 3/8/18 Empire State Patient Safety Assurance Network
  • 3/8/18 Global Cannabinoid Drug Development
  • 3/8/18 Indigenous Medicine, Natural Products and Nanomedicine
  • 5/4/17 Jamaica Center for Infectious Diseases Research
  • 4/6/18 Global Virus Network
  • 5/24/17 Zimbabwe International Nanotechnology Center

Partner Organizations

  • SUNY Global Health Institute
  • 1/28/21 Zimbabwe Center of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • WNY Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Hub
  • Global Virus Network
  • School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  • 3/5/20 Translational Pharmacology Research Core

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