Success Stories

Double Helix at Squire Hall on South Campus
Research Award: National Science Foundation
9/17/15
Stephen Koury and his colleagues in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, received the grant to educate regional high school teachers and recruit high school students to pursue careers in STEM fields.
Zurek Wins 2014 CMOA Award
Research News: Zurek Wins 2014 CMOA Award
6/23/15
Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center Academic Partner and UB Associate Professor, Eva Zurek wins the international "Promising Young Scientist Award" given to young scientists for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.
UB
Research at UB: An Overview
8/6/15
The University at Buffalo (UB) is a premier research-intensive public university with innovative faculty and students who introduce new technologies to improve people’s daily lives.
Dr. Norma Nowak, one of the leaders involved with the Genomic Medicine Initiative.
Research News: Genomic Medicine
8/6/15
The University at Buffalo is uniquely positioned to help New York State become a national leader in genomic medicine.
Sentient Science
Research Grant: Sentient Science and UB Receive $150,000 Phase 1 Grant
6/23/15
Sentient Science and the CMI faculty were recently awarded funding from the U.S. Navy Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) for their proposed Bioelectronic Fusion Sensor System. 
Yijun Sun, PhD (left), and Michael Buck, PhD, aim to better understand the interplay between the microbiome in the mouth and patients’ health.
Bioinformatics Aids $4 Million Oral Microbiome Women’s Health Study
9/17/15

Bioinformatics and genomics experts from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will contribute to a $4 million interdisciplinary study of bacteria in the mouth and periodontal disease in postmenopausal women.

Co-corresponding author Jun Qu
Research Publication: Proteomics
8/6/15
To explore the proteomics of the SLOS rat model, the UB researchers, led by co-corresponding author Jun Qu, used ion-current-based proteomic profiling, a relatively new and sophisticated methodology for studying proteins.
Pancreatic cancer treatments: US-Ireland research partnership takes novel approach
12/15/15
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers: in the United States, only 7 percent of patients survive five years after diagnosis.
When NFIX is eliminated and neural stem cells are allowed to differentiate, there is an increase in the fraction of oligodendrocytes (white), with no obvious change in astrocytes (green) or neurons (red). Cell nuclei are shown in blue. (Credit: Bo Zhou and Richard Gonostajski)
Brain equation: Subtract protein, generate myelin-making cells
8/19/15

A new way to generate oligodendrocytes has potential to enhance treatments for brain injury, MS, Alzheimer’s and more.

Research News: How do you turn a mosquito’s genes on and off?
7/28/16
Scientists are using machine learning to identify important sequences of DNA within the mosquito genome that regulate how the insect’s cells develop and behave.