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UB CAT accepting applications from life sciences companies to accelerate product development, technology commercialization
3/28/13
BUFFALO, NY — The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT) is now accepting proposals from life sciences companies that wish to accelerate product development or technology commercialization of devices, diagnostics, drugs, software, and related products and services.
Media Advisory: Launch NY CEO to Discuss Innovation and Resources for Upstate New York Startups at UB Life Sciences Lecture Series
3/21/13
John Seman, CEO of Launch NY, will discuss the future of innovation in Upstate New York and how this venture development organization is working to support those efforts.
Celebrating invention: Annual reception to honor UB’s innovators, entrepreneurs
3/21/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo will honor some of Western New York’s most inventive minds and companies at the annual UB Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception, which takes place on March 25 at UB’s Clinical and Translational Research Center.
Moving 6 tons of sand by hand: It’s all in a day (or five days) of river research for UB scientists
3/19/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The work wasn’t glamorous, but it had to be done.
UB color-identification technology named a game-changer by Society of Manufacturing Engineers
3/8/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An easy-to-make rainbow filter that could help users identify the true color of everything from paint to medicine has been named to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) list of 2013 Innovations that Could Change the Way You Manufacture.
Mars, electronic music and more: It’s all happening at Buffalo’s next Science & Art Cabaret
3/8/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Only at an event like Buffalo’s Science & Art Cabaret could you find a mix of presenters this diverse: On March 15, a physicist, a planetary geologist, a visual studies professor and an ensemble of digital musicians will convene to present their work on the topic of the universe.
Viruses: More survival tricks than previously thought
3/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — For what may be the first time, researchers have discovered a virus inside a host with a non-standard nuclear genetic code — one that differs from the standard genetic code that almost all living things use to produce proteins.
How New York City’s brownstones would react to the Virginia earthquake
2/28/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A brick wall imitating part of a New York City row house (often called a “brownstone”) suffered minor damage but remained intact during a simulation of the 2011 Virginia earthquake, according to a preliminary analysis of tests conducted Feb. 19 at the University at Buffalo.
UB materials chemist receives Sloan Research Fellowship
2/19/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Eva Zurek, University at Buffalo assistant professor of chemistry, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which provides leading early-career investigators with a two-year, $50,000 award to conduct research of their choice.
UB ontologists named to major NIH immunology research team
2/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A team of University at Buffalo researchers has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the collection, analysis and exchange of scientific data for scientists investigating immunology and immune-mediated diseases.