The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is a comprehensive medical school. It has been in operation for 150 years and is the oldest school in the University at Buffalo.

• Faculty members from the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences generate & Roswell Park Cancer Institute $92 million in total research funding annually. We are ranked 8th in research grants per basic science faculty members among the 125 medical schools in the country in American Association of Medical Colleges listings.
• Significant Contributions to Biomedical Advances by Buffalo Faculty include: PSA Test, Photodynamic Therapy, PKU Test, Nicorette Gum, Platinum coil treatment of inoperable aneurysms, Surfactant Therapy for premature newborns,Implantable Pacemaker, Structure determination from X-ray diffraction data,Interferon treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, Protein structure determination.
• New Biomedical Developments by UB Faculty include: Artificial blood, Advanced imaging devices, Liquid ventilation, New biosensors for hazard detection, Edible vaccines for Hepatitis B, Growth factor therapy (tissue engineering), High speed throughput crystallization by robotics, New antidepressants, Genetic diagnostics for human diseases, New generation surgical lasers.
• The School recently built a new 210,000 sq. ft. research facility occupied by research Centers of Excellence. In recognition of this organizational structure, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences was recently awarded $12 million as one of five NIH Vanguard Clinical Centers for the Women's Health Initiative. The School recently received a $1 million award from the Markey Charitable Trust to establish a Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, dedicated to the study and treatment of life threatening viruses, bacteria and parasites.
• A $3.6 million gift from the Toshiba Corporation was recently received to establish a Stroke Research Center, comprised of a team with bioengineering, imaging, neurosurgical and molecular biological expertise dedicated to the treatment of stroke and aneurysm.
• The BIOGEN Corporation recently provided a $1.5 million endowment for the Department of Neurology based on pioneering work on the use of interferon to treat multiple sclerosis.
• The Keck Foundation recently awarded the School $1 million to establish a National Center for Computational Biology to study single molecule kinetics.
• The School also recently received a $1.5 million private endowment from Dr. Elizabeth Olmstead to establish a new chair in Bioinformatics
• A number of graduate students are support through NIH-National Research Service Awards
• NIH Funded Training Programs within the University at Buffalo include Drug Development and Therapeutics, Tumor Immunology, Cancer Prevention, Minority Training Program, Oral Biology, Microbial Pathogenesis and Molecular Biophysics.
• The Center for Advanced Biomedical Technology is a consortium of the University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the Hauptman-Woodward Institute. The center brings together researchers with expertise in pharmaceuticals, genomic research products, molecular diagnostics, vaccines, antibodies, structural biology, protein production crystallography, micro-bioengineering, computational biology, guided wave photonics, medical imaging, and molecular diagnostics

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• The University was established in 1856 and incorporated into the New York State System in 1962.
• UB is the only public school member of the prestigious Association of American Universities in New York and New England.
• UB is the largest member of the SUNY system with about 25,000 students including more than 8,000 graduate students and 2000 faculty
• Nearly 2000 international students from more than 100 countries attend UB.
• UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences ranks in the top quartile of all medical school with respect to extramural funding and 8th national with respect to research dollars per basic science faculty
• Center for Computational Research ranks in the top 10 for academic supercomputing facilities
• Original member of International Human Genome Consortium
• Member of NIH Consortium on Structural Genomics
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Center for Genomics and Proteomics.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Center for Single Molecule Kinetics
• One of five national Vanguard Clinical Centers for the NIH Women's Health Initiative
• Creation of The Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics is a collaborative effort to merge high-end technology, including supercomputing and visualization, with expertise in genomics, proteomics, and bioimaging to foster advances in science and health care.  The Center is supported by over $200million from NY State, US and Industrial Partnerships.

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