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Recommendations of the Berger Commission on Health Care Facilities present an opportunity to create a health-care delivery system for Western New York that will assure the highest quality of care for patients, as well the highest quality of training for those who will meet their future health-care needs, David L. Dunn, University at Buffalo vice president for health sciences, testified today at a New York State Senate public hearing.

A monoclonal antibody developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo has been shown to extend significantly the survival of mice with human breast-cancer tumors and to inhibit the cancer's spread to the lungs in the animals by more than 50 percent.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded a $579,325 grant to Amy Hequembourg, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions to study the role of gender and sexual identity in alcohol use and victimization.

Buffalo resident Jetaun Jones has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the UB Center for Urban Studies.

Research by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown that one-third of men with type 2 diabetes who have low testosterone concentrations are likely to have anemia, due to two mechanisms that suppress the formation of red blood cells.

A study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that people's gender and ethnicity predicted their immediate response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their general state of health over the next two years.

Local musicians and artists are getting invaluable exposure and networking opportunities through the highly successful Music Is Art Live @ The Center program hosted by the Center for the Arts (CFA) at the University at Buffalo.

Understanding of the transition into adolescence and what may promote or mitigate substance abuse in adolescents will be advanced by research conducted by a University at Buffalo psychologist that is being funded by two grants totaling more than $4.1 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Faculty and staff soon will see a dramatic change in the way human resources are delivered to the University at Buffalo community as recommendations of the Human Resources Transformation Team are implemented as part of the UB 2020 strategic planning process.

A reproductive medicine specialist at the University at Buffalo has shown that a new compound may improve the fertility of tobacco smokers who have low sperm count and low percentage sperm motility.