SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr. visited UB to experience and showcase the groundbreaking AI research taking place at the SUNY flagship school.

UB neuroscientist/pharmacologist Arin Bhattacharjee—co-founder of biotech company Channavix Therapeutics—talks about his research and novel approach to pain on the most recent episode of the Driven to Discover podcast.

CMI-supported partnership between Ellicottville Greens and StarCo Lighting are working on a project to develop lighting systems for vertical growing operations.

UB alumnus and incubator graduate Dan Buckmaster, president and founder of Tresca Design, continues to grow his mechanical engineering firm with creativity and flexibility.

Western New York-based startup supporters and former entrepreneurs — including UB's Richard Kim and Peter Burakowski — share why mentorship is key to helping startup founders succeed in business.

Exchange @ Beverly Gray, an entrepreneur service organization on Buffalo's East Side, has had a busy few years and now looks to launch a new program for entrepreneurial enrichment.

Nanobiotix, a biotechnology company using UB technology, will license an experimental cancer treatment to Johnson & Johnson to gain support for a late-stage clinical trial testing treatment in head and neck cancer.

UB researcher Gang Wu--current faculty expert for the Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics--received a $3 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant as part of Hydrogen Shot, a DOE initiative to tap hydrogen as an efficient, affordable fuel and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Startup company Copprium has won a national innovation award for its technology, developed at UB. Now, founder and UB alumni Brian Bischoff is ready to bring his industry-changing conductive copper ink product to the market.

UB spinoff POP Biotechnologies announced positive results in a Phase III clinical trial for EuCorVac-19, a novel COVID-19 vaccine being developed by South Korean partner EuBiologics.

After graduating from UB's Cultivator program earlier this year, Buffalo-based startup Arbol has closed the first leg of a pre-seed funding round, with investments from the Western New York Impact Investment Fund and UB’s Buffalo Innovation Seed Fund.

The University at Buffalo has received the Deshpande Symposium Award for Excellence in Student Engagement in Entrepreneurship, expanding its position as a national leader in innovative education and igniting the entrepreneurial spirit.

UB researcher Sathy Balu-Iyer — former recipient of Empire Discovery Institute and UB’s Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences funding — has been awarded an additional three-year, $1.5 million grant to continue his work on enabling a patient’s immune system to accept treatment for hemophilia.

UB incubators company HELIXintel announced closing of a Series A funding round of $11M. The series was led by National Grid Partners and will be used for business expansion, including adding to its customer success, operations and engineering teams.

Although Athenex Inc. declared bankruptcy, it isn't the end for drug development in Buffalo. Empire Discovery Institute and other investors continue to fund biopharmaceutical projects, helping bolster Western New York's ecosystem and supporting the growth of future drug companies.

Buffalo Business First reports on four examples of innovations in health care being developed in Western New York, including a method for freeze-drying formulas for vaccines being developed by a UB research team led by Jonathan Lovell, biomedical engineering researcher, professor and co-founder of POP Biotechnologies.

Derrick Parson, a second-time entrepreneur and executive director of entrepreneur support organization The Exchange at Beverly Gray, shifted focus during the pandemic to launch a new startup, Latte. Latte is a graduate of UB's Cultivator program, from which the company received $100,000.

President Satish K. Tripathi has been named the 2023 Executive of the Year by the Buffalo Niagara Sales & Marketing Executives (BNSME) in recognition of his stewardship of UB as “an economic powerhouse in Western New York” and his leadership role in numerous other regional economic activities. In his award speech, President Tripathi noted that the many “economic and altruistic gains that the Executive of the Year award recognizes” resonates with him “because it speaks directly to UB’s mission.”

Local startup RHM Innovations — the 2023 winner of UB's Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition and, a few days later, the New York Business Plan Competition — is ready to accelerate.

A durable medical equipment manufacturer that develops assistive bathing technologies to reduce strain on caregivers and improve shower quality for recipients took first place April 25 at the competition.