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  • For Every Dollar Spent, Award to UB Emergency Department Should Save $2 on WNY Health Care Costs
    5/30/12
    The $2.57 million federal Health Care Innovation Award, granted earlier this month to the University at Buffalo, is expected to save at least $2 in health care costs in Western New York for every dollar provided, says G. Richard Braen, MD, principal investigator, chair of the UB Department of Emergency Medicine and associate dean of graduate medical education at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Program Will Bring Diversity to Biomedical and Behavioral Science
    5/29/12
    The University at Buffalo has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the education of 20 new biomedical and behavioral scientists from underrepresented groups between now and 2016.
  • Rewarding Excellence: Dental School Dean Receives Oral Medicine's Highest Academic Honor
    5/25/12
    Michael Glick, DMD, professor of oral medicine and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been presented with the highest academic award given by the American Academy of Oral Medicine (AAOM), conferred at their 66th annual meeting in April.
  • Kaleida Health and University at Buffalo Officially Open Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center
    5/24/12
    The effort to transform Buffalo into a world-class health care destination and expand the University at Buffalo's (UB) campus in downtown Buffalo took another major step forward today as Kaleida Health and UB opened a new 10-story vascular institute and research building.
  • Media Advisory: Kaleida Health and UB to Hold Ribbon-Cutting for GVI/CTRC
    5/21/12
    Buffalo, N.Y. -- Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo will officially open the new Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, May 24 at 11 a.m. in the fifth floor atrium of the new building at Goodrich and Ellicott Streets on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  • Good News for Nanomedicine: Quantum Dots Appear Safe in Pioneering Study on Primates
    5/21/12
    A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases like cancer through nanomedicine.
  • A Possible Target for Broad-Range HPV Therapeutics Emerges
    5/21/12
    A University at Buffalo microbiologist has identified a protein interaction that could present the first viable, broad-range HPV drug target. This protein sequence in the viral DNA synthesis system is not only necessary for HPV synthesis, it is highly conserved between all HPV isotypes.
  • UB Chair of Neurology is Organizer of Major, International Meeting on Myasthenia Gravis in New York City
    5/18/12
    Gil I. Wolfe, MD, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will play a major role in the 12th International Conference on Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders, May 20 - 23 in New York City.
  • Pediatric MS Research at UB Gets a Boost from Sales of New York State Custom License Plates
    5/17/12
    Research into pediatric multiple sclerosis at the University at Buffalo and Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo is getting a boost from New York State motorists who purchased custom license plates bearing the National Multiple Sclerosis Society logo.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Announce Selection of Design Team for New School of Medicine
    5/15/12
    The University at Buffalo will announce tomorrow, May 16, the design team selected to design the new, state-of-the-art facility for the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to be constructed in downtown Buffalo.