Research News

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  • UB scientists selected for NASA satellite mission
    2/13/26

    The first-of-its-kind satellite system will use lasers to make high-resolution observations to map Earth's ice sheets and ecosystems.

  • Reducing hazmat risk
    10/20/14

    UB researcher Changhyun Kwon has received a NSF CAREER Award to build a routing simulator that would reduce catastrophic hazardous materials accidents.

  • Architect Barbie, three years later
    10/16/14

    Architect Barbie co-creaters Despina Stratigakos and Kelly Hayes McAlonie are traveling to Washington, D.C., to talk about how the gender debate in the profession has changed.

  • Continuing HIV drug development
    10/16/14

    The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has received three grants totaling $3.85 million from the National Institutes of Health for the Translational Pharmacology Research Core and its HIV Clinical Pharmacology Research Program.

  • RENEW awards seed funding
    10/16/14

    Four research projects have received seed funding under RENEW, UB’s new interdisciplinary environmental research initiative.

  • Transforming patient care
    10/16/14

    In response to new 'game-changing' hepatitis C treatments, UB has launched a clinical care center to advance research, clinical management and education on liver disease.

  • Food (policy) back on the table
    10/16/14

    A new UB study outlines seven factors that led one of America’s poorest cities to embrace farming, urban chickens and more

  • Extending battery life
    10/13/14

    Three UB research groups have received a combined $1.3 million in federal grants to improve smartphone energy management.

  • Rights acquired to spider-venom drug
    10/9/14

    A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company has acquired the rights to a drug that UB scientists have begun developing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a common, fatal genetic disease affecting young boys.

  • Friedman receives another honor
    10/9/14

    UB faculty member Kathryn Bryk Friedman has been appointed to a prominent SUNY fellowship program designed to foster research collaborations across the state campus system.

  • Reducing precancerous polyps
    10/9/14

    An oral biologic medication has successfully treated chronic, precancerous inflammation in the intestine, according to results of an animal study authored by a UB MD/PhD student.