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When businesses and universities collide, life-changing innovations are born. From developing novel materials to pioneering COVID-19 vaccine candidates, impacts made by UB startups, researchers and industry partners are as diverse as they are far-reaching.
Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships’ UB CAT builds on $262 million in reported economic impact. 2026-27 awards support 12 health sciences applied research collaborations, connecting New York State companies with UB researchers through NYSTAR funding to advance novel technologies toward commercialization and clinical impact.
UB ranks among nation’s best public universities in U.S. News rankings with the undergraduate engineering and computer science programs moving up this year.
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. announced the latest round of seed funding through the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), which provides grants to faculty inventors and scientists.
UB has received $5 million from the SUNY to lead development of a statewide, multi-campus research network focused on accelerating collaborative research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions that affect older adults.
Professor Amit Goyal and his research team earned two 2026 R&D World 100 Awards for technology that measures recycled plastic content in commercial products. Goyal works closely with UB Business & Entrepreneur Partnerships’ Technology Transfer office to protect his inventions and move them toward commercial use.
UB to lead NSF-backed battery workforce program, the Energy Storage Engine Scholars Initiative
Cultivator company, CareNgen, has completed a pilot of its caregiver-support platform—and is starting another.
Since the start of 2025, nine spinouts built on UB research have collectively secured nearly $16 million in new grants, private investment and licensing.
Wenyao Xu was recognized for research combining wearable devices and mobile AI with health care applications—work he is advancing through Auspex Medix and UB’s Center for Translational AI and Digital Health.
In a Buffalo News feature, Leslie Woodward describes how moving her startup, Edenesque, to Western New York brought the company closer to contract manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment partners while connecting it with startup support from organizations including UB BEP and LaunchNY.
Ognomy Sleep, a leading virtual sleep medicine platform transforming access to diagnosis and treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, announced the closing of a $20 million Series A financing round that includes investments from BEP's Buffalo Innovation Seed Fund.
IBEX Materials co-founder Mark Swihart helped develop the process, which creates complex alloy nanoparticles in milliseconds and expands the range of materials researchers can test.
TETmedical has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for NSE-FAST®, a rapid blood-based test intended to help clinicians evaluate patients who may be experiencing an acute ischemic stroke.
Funding will help the UB spinout advance a rapid-response bird flu vaccine candidate and test its vaccine platform for future outbreak response.
The new center will support AI-enabled sensing, decision-support and digital health tools while connecting UB researchers with clinical partners, industry collaborators and commercialization support.
Buffalo Startup Week, organized by UB BEP and the Western New York Incubator Network, was featured in a Buffalo News story on Eric Wood’s role as a startup investor and keynote speaker for the inaugural Buffalo Startup Draft, which spotlighted local companies with direct ties to UB.
Canget BioTekpharma, a Buffalo-based startup supported by UB Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships, received FDA Rare Pediatric Disease and Orphan Drug designations for FL118, a potential treatment for osteosarcoma, advancing efforts to develop new therapies for this rare and aggressive bone cancer affecting children and young adults.
IBEX Materials Inc., co-founded by UB's Mark Swihart, was awarded a 2025 NY SMART I-Corridor Tech Hub C3 THRIVE voucher to develop a new method for recycling semiconductor waste into more affordable, higher-performance lithium battery materials.
A collaboration between University at Buffalo researcher Jun Liu and Corning has produced its first peer-reviewed paper—marking an early milestone for a project supported through the Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI).
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