The Tech & Learning regional leadership summit brought together educational leaders from the northeast region to discuss improving career and technical education pathways. BEP's Stacey Johnson led a session on connecting schools with industry partners.

University at Buffalo (UB) Business & Entrepreneur Partnerships (BEP) has helped Carbonix Materials secure $300,000 for research on graphene-based materials designed to draw heat away from semiconductor components.

UB Cultivator graduate JECA Energy Bars wins a $1 million investment at 43North.

UB Business & Entrepreneur Partnerships will receive over $630,000 in support through BlackRock Future Builders to train and support 50,000 American workers as they pursue careers in the skilled trades. BlackRock Future Builders is designed to help meet the country’s growing demand for skilled workers while expanding access to careers that can provide pathways to lasting financial security.

Applications are open for the 2027 NIIMBL eXperience at UB—a weeklong, all-expenses-paid introduction to biopharmaceutical careers.

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.

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.

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.

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.