Research News

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  • UB launches Center for Translational AI and Digital Health
    6/8/26

    Center will advance emerging medical technologies that improve the speed, precision and accessibility in which people receive care.

  • 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.

  • Communities of Excellence moving forward
    10/9/14

    Out of nearly 100 concepts from faculty across the university, 14 multidisciplinary teams are preparing to submit preliminary proposals for the next phase of the selection process for UB’s Communities of Excellence.