Medical Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund

faculty and residents in the Medical School Building.

Scholarship assistance is crucial for our medical students; this fund helps pave the way for talented students of all backgrounds to attend UB and excel.

Medical students incur an average of nearly $180,000 in debt by graduation. Debt of this magnitude discourages many talented and diverse students from pursuing a career in medicine. It also influences their choices about what field to specialize in and where they ultimately choose to practice.

Through this fund, our goal is to help resolve the financial issues that our students face, and reduce the financial risk of a future in medicine. Increased scholarship support minimizes the financial burden that accompanies a student’s investment in medical education, and can also give more students the opportunity to become primary care physicians or to practice in underserved areas.

Established by members of the Medical Alumni Association to provide funds for medical academic scholarships, this fund has an immediate impact on our students, and plays a significant role in helping the next generation of physicians.

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News from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

  • A Potential Dramatic Change in Treating Type 1 Diabetes
    9/6/23

    Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide (trade names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus) may drastically reduce or even eliminate their need for injected insulin.

  • Discovery About Body’s Temperature Sensors Could Lead to Better Pain Relievers
    8/31/23

    UB researchers are unraveling the complex biological phenomena that drive our ability to detect heat and pain.

     

  • Resident’s Research Project Wins Multiple Honors
    9/20/23

    Dustin Morgan, MD, a PGY-5 chief resident in the orthopaedics residency program, won first place in the resident poster competition at the 2023 annual meeting of the NYS Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (NYSSOS) Sept. 9 in Rochester.

  • Because of the work of the Patrick P. Lee Foundation, training programs have been a success at UB that increase the number of highly skilled mental health workers in Western New York.

  • STEM Event Helps High School Students Learn Surgical Skills
    5/30/23

    Inspiring gifted high school students in Buffalo public high schools to pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields — and perhaps become future surgeons — was the aim of a UB Drone STEM competition that took place at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building.

  • Second Look Weekend Peels Back Layers of Life at UB
    5/11/23

    Second Look Weekend provides accepted students from groups historically underrepresented in medicine with the opportunity to learn more details about what the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Â鶹´«Ã½o have to offer.

  • Destigmatizing Menstrual Health Focus of Initiative
    11/17/23

    The medical student-run OB-GYN Interest Group is providing free sanitary products in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in order to instill a more supportive environment for everyone and to destigmatize menstrual health.