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Could low-dose lithium treat long COVID? UB launches clinical trial to find out
1/6/23
Adults experiencing long COVID may be interested in a new University at Buffalo clinical trial that is testing low-dose lithium as a potential treatment.
UB/Roswell Park researcher wins fellowship to study health inequalities associated with cannabis legalization
12/21/22
Michelle Goulette has been awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) Fellowship.
NEJM published two major papers by UB faculty last month
12/19/22
Getting published in the New England Journal of Medicine is a career-crowning achievement for any medical researcher. Last month, it happened to two UB pediatrics faculty, both of whom are also alumnae.
Study finds racial discrimination impacts health across relationships
12/15/22
Findings suggest that the impact of racial discrimination on health is much greater than previously thought, says UB researcher.
New customizable, strontium-filled scaffold could improve dental implant healing
12/9/22
UB researchers have developed a new strontium-loaded scaffold that can be personalized to fit any size dental implant and could help improve healing.
Brashear is elected to AAMC Council of Deans Administrative Board
12/6/22
Allison Brashear, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to the AAMC Council of Deans Administrative Board.
Clinician scientist Waheed Adedeji receives NIH award to study interaction of mental health and HIV medication in Nigeria
12/2/22
Adedeji, also a scholar at the UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS), will receive mentorship and training through CIGBS.
New tool twice as accurate at predicting antibody resistance among U.S. children with Kawasaki disease
12/2/22
UB-developed scoring system lays groundwork for North America’s first test to predict therapeutic resistance for the rare, but severe disease.
UB mathematicians propose alternative method to map neuron activity
11/30/22
Recently published paper suggests that ‘hypergraphs’ better explain how neuronal networks communicate.
Local teens with obesity experienced dramatic weight loss when they participated in UB clinical trial
11/29/22
The results of a clinical trial on the drug semaglutide in teens, released in the New England Journal of Medicine, turned out to be better than anything the participants — or even the researchers — expected.