UB and Stony Brook University have been designated the “flagships” of SUNY by Gov. Kathy Hochul, recognizing the two institutions for their status among the nation’s leading public research universities.

The pace of startup funding last year smashed previous records. Can Buffalo startups keep up the momentum?

The Empire Discovery Institute and global pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S have formed a five-year partnership to commercialize life sciences research from the institute’s academic partners, including the University at Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo’s (UB) Center for Computational Research (CCR) offers unique opportunities to Western New York’s many businesses. CCR provides dedicated converged high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities with a new HPC + AI compute cluster. The new cluster, built by Dell Technologies using Intel® Xeon® Gold 6330 processors, enables a large community of customers to develop innovative solutions through simulation, modeling, and machine learning.

In the summer of 2021, CCR brought online a new industry cluster that's aiding local businesses to innovate & bring their ideas to market faster than ever.

Wayne Bacon, a Buffalo industrialist turned entrepreneur, launched a medical device venture almost eight years ago, hoping to create an adhesive bandage with infection-fighting ingredients. University at Buffalo medical school researchers had a different idea: Why not focus on an experimental concept to use electrical stimulation to help joint-replacement patients fight off infections?

Through Cultivator — UB invests up to $100,000 and nine months of mentorship in early-stage companies founded by students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.

UB has a number of chemist entrepreneurs, including Janet Morrow, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Larkin Chair in the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences. Morrow is also co-founder and chief science officer of Ferric Contrast Inc., where she is leading efforts to develop iron-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The University at Buffalo has won a nearly $50,000 grant from FuzeHub to partner with a Silver Creek equipment maker on a new mixer for advanced energy materials. UB’s Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics is partnering with S. Howes LLC to develop a new Ploughshare mixer for battery and energy-related materials. The new mixer will greatly improve the mixing and reaction times of energy materials like those used in alkaline ion batteries, photovoltaic cells and other sustainable energy solutions.

KSL Diagnostics, Inc. has launched a first-of-its-kind antibody test that detects an individual’s immune response to COVID-19 and assesses the risk of infection. The COVID-19 Immune Index™ can help monitor effectiveness of COVID-19 virus protection through a simple blood test.

An editorial in The Buffalo News describes how state funding to UB will help make the university and the region a powerhouse in innovation and research. This funding “could also leverage two federal bonanzas — $100 million from the Economic Development Administration Regional Challenge Grant program and a designation as a $1 billion tech hub under the pending U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. Each could bolster the region’s engineering/tech sector by hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Stephen T. Koury, research associate professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant that will allow high school students and teachers the opportunity to perform genome sequencing of bacteria.

Atrevida Science, a spin-off from the University at Buffalo's engineering school, is looking at ways to make the windmill blades themselves even more high-tech, adapting to shifting winds and concerns from siting opponents.

A platform that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts within institutions by empowering instructors and participants through guided social discussion took first place April 20 at the University at Buffalo’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).

UB will lead a $10 million project to develop software that academia, industry and government agencies use to manage high-performance computing infrastructure, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced last Friday.

UB joined LIFT, the Detroit-based national manufacturing innovation institute, on a project to accelerate the development of materials for hypersonic systems. Facilitated by the Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, joining the program will aid in faster design and deployment of hypersonic vehicles, lower-cost development processes, improved vehicle performance, and maturation of the supply base for hypersonic components/vehicles.

President Satish K. Tripathi and other UB administrators offered messages of condolence and support to the victims of Saturday’s racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, as well as to members of the UB community.

Rick Gardner, an ex-bull rider from a former silver mining town in Colorado, followed "a tortuous path" to becoming the University at Buffalo's startup guru. Now he's helping UB pave the way for entrepreneurs with a program dubbed the Cultivator, a nursery for sprouting startups and channeling the university's research and talent as a force for new growth across the Buffalo Niagara region.

This research work was supported by grants from UB’s Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

After experiencing supply chain issues due to COVID-19, Cultivator team Jeca Energy Bars is poised for growth.

The Immunaeon founder recently became the first entrepreneur to graduate from the University at Buffalo’s Cultivator accelerator program. He nabbed a $100,000 investment from UB through the program and spent months (with the assist of UB interns and mentors) doing market research on how to commercialize his idea.

A University at Buffalo-led research team will seek to develop eco-friendly insulation materials through a new $2.2 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Startup uvcPhyzx has teamed up with UB's Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics to address air purification problems presented by COVID-19.

Team Real Talk has been through two phases of the Cultivator and now sets its sights on growth as co-founder and CEO Malkijah Griffiths goes full-time with the company.

MassChallenge—a prestigious startup accelerator in Boston, MA—has invited 250 startups to participate in to its 2022 U.S. Early Stage Accelerator program, including University at Buffalo spinoff company Atrevida Science.

Malkijah Griffiths, co-founder and CEO of Team Real Talk shares what he's learned about pitching to investors.

Diversity issues bedevil startup communities across the world, but in Buffalo’s emerging technology ecosystem, there is a sense that now is the time to build solutions into the overall sense of growth. Founders Andy Hakes, of UB incubators company AireXpert, and David Gonzalez, of Cultivator company Arbol, share their perspectives.

Tech startup Grit Seed, located at UB's Incubator @ Baird, is being acquired by Chicago software company Xcite Automotive. Grit Seed founder Raj Suchak will become Xcite's CTO and looks to build his technical team in Buffalo.

The companies are developing treatments for cancer, neurovascular diseases and more.

It’s hard to track specifically when a movement begins, but for these purposes, let’s start with 2012. That’s when the Z80 Labs incubator opened in downtown Buffalo, as a front door for the region’s nascent scene of startup builders and software tinkerers.

MemoryFox, a software-as-a-services business with roots at UB, continues to grow. The company recently closed a $400,000 funding round, half of which came from the University at Buffalo’s Buffalo Innovation Seed Fund.

Completing M&T Bank’s Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab program propelled Unapologetic Coffee into UB’s Cultivator program, where Alicia and Alisa Officer continue to grow as entrepreneurs.

The advancement involving manganese trichloride 'opens the floodgates to a whole new area of research,' says lead scientist David Lacy

Immunaeon is another success story for the e-Law Center Clinic, a blossoming student-driven agency that provides legal services to entrepreneurs and startups not yet ready or able to engage outside legal counsel.

Here’s a comeback story with numbers to back it up.

If you build it, they will come. That’s the case for Wellconnected, a company that’s created a web-based platform for community-based organizations.

A promising alternative to opioids being developed in the Buffalo and Rochester regions is one step closer to meeting a critical need in pain management, thanks to a pivotal business partnership and exclusive licensing agreements with the University at Buffalo.

The $15 million National Science Foundation program will foster innovation and accelerate economic development in Western New York, and beyond.

FuzeHub announced Custom Electronics, Inc., working in collaboration with Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics and the Materials Design and Innovation Department at the University at Buffalo, as one of three winners of the first New York State Advanced Materials Innovation Challenge.

An investigative journey UB faculty member Joseph Balthasar began as a student has led to the establishment of a new field through a groundbreaking discovery.

Yongho Bae, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, has received a $250,000 sponsored research award from the Empire Discovery Institute (EDI) to investigate the role a novel mechanotherapeutic target, discovered in his lab, may have on vascular and cardiac stiffening commonly associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review have named the University at Buffalo one of the country’s top undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies.

LIFT, a Detroit-based Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, announced the launch of a materials characterization and testing project, led by Alfred University, aimed at accelerating the development of materials for hypersonic systems. UB's Center of Excellence for Materials Informatics will collaborate with Alfred University on the LIFT project.