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  • 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.
  • Inspired by true stories: Two New UB Graduates Fight the Odds to Become Nurses
    5/11/12
    On Saturday, May 12, Jacob Madonia and My Lan N. Le will cross the stage at the University at Buffalo's School of Nursing commencement to get their diplomas in the last leg of a marathon whose finish line must have seemed, at times, impossible to cross.
  • Media Advisory: Upstate New York Pharmacology Society Holds Its Inaugural Meeting
    5/10/12
    The Upstate New York Pharmacology Society, a new regional organization founded in 2010 by University at Buffalo faculty members, is holding its inaugural meeting on May 14 at UB's Center for the Arts on the North Campus from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Novel Imaging for Sudden Cardiac Arrest Could Better Identify Patients Who Would Benefit from ICDs
    5/10/12
    New research from the University at Buffalo suggests that cardiologists may have a new way to identify patients who are at the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, and the most likely to benefit from receiving an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD).
  • Chronic Cocaine Use Triggers Changes in Brain's Neuron Structure
    5/9/12
    Chronic exposure to cocaine reduces the expression of a protein known to regulate brain plasticity, according to new, in vivo research on the molecular basis of cocaine addiction. That reduction drives structural changes in the brain, which produce greater sensitivity to the rewarding effects of cocaine.