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Posted on October 17, 2022
UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) collaborated with the You First Services Foundation (YFS) to award an annual award of $5,000 to the early career university whose studies focus on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
The YFS Foundation Clinical and Translational Research Award aims to stimulate discoveries that lead to healthcare inventions and curative interventions for a wide range of diseases.
The award recognizes excellence in clinical and translational studies and is open to all young faculty, with the rank of assistant professor or, from around the world who participate in CIGBS-recognized programs. Recipients will be notified until March 2023 and the budget can be used without restrictions. To announce team science, nominations may be submitted through more than one user and, if successful, the prize will be shared equally.
For more information about the award and how to apply, visit the YFS Foundation website.
“We are pleased to offer a mechanism to recognize talented scholars participating in CIGBS capacity building programs,” said Satish Sharma, President and CEO of You First Services Group of Companies.
Established in 2015, CIGBS is a foreign hub for addressing global situations requiring physical fitness through pharmacological studies and education, and drug and vaccine development. Led by Gene Morse, SUNY Professor Emeritus in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the center brings together faculty combined from studies, clinical systems and implemented to tackle the world’s most pressing fitness issues.
CIGBS provides educational programs and mentoring studies to educators around the world in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Jamaica and the United States. The center oversees or partners with more than a dozen local and foreign initiatives, adding the Western New York (WNY) COVID-19 Collaborative, an interdisciplinary organization of network organizations, physical care providers, educational centers, and businesses coming together to announce COVID-19 vaccines, infection prevention strategies, and COVID-19 testing and remedies in Erie and Niagara counties.
“This award, which recognizes one of our CIGBS fellows for innovation and leadership, is exciting and creates many new opportunities for our fellows, thanks to the YFS Foundation,” says Morse, who is also co-director of WNY COVID-19. Collaborator and co-director of the SUNY Global Health Institute.
Gary M. Pollack, professor and dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, adds that one of the lessons learned from the current COVID-19 pandemic is “the potentially devastating effect emerging infectious diseases can have on people’s fitness. “, families and communities around the world.
“The treatment and mitigation of infectious diseases is a domain in which pharmacy can and deserves to be at the forefront, and I am very proud of the work done by Dr. Morse and the CIBGS of the UB,” says Pollack. effect and social benefits of giant public universities”.
Visit CIGBS to learn more about the center’s systems and initiatives.
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