UB biostatistician Marianthi Markatou has been appointed to serve on the National Institutes of Health's Biostatistics Methods and Research Design study section.
The effects of media violence on children and what parents and teachers can do about it is the focus of this year’s annual conference sponsored by the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention.
UB faculty member Xuefeng Ren has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the mechanisms of arsenic carcinogenesis — the process by which exposure to arsenic transforms normal cells into cancer cells.
The discovery by UB and Harvard researchers of a sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem may lead to new therapies for sleep disorders, including insomnia.
UB faculty member Wilma Hofmann has received a nearly $600,000 federal grant to study cellular processes that cause high levels of unsaturated fats to increase the metastatic potential of prostate cancer cells.
A UB project that aims to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in cloud computing research has received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
