Research News

National Drug Facts Week aims to “shatter the myths” teens may hold about drug use and abuse — and work at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions supports that message.

UB researcher Robert Silverman challenges assumptions that quality affordable housing is readily available in shrinking cities.

UB researcher Nikita (Nik) Nanos has been named a global fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

The sponges of the future will do more than clean house.

A UB study has found that COPD patients experience more respiratory symptoms when their lungs are colonized by bacteria, even in the absence of an acute flare-up of symptoms.

More heat, not less, may be the key to boosting power for laptops and portable electronic devices, UB researchers suggest.

UB faculty member Drucy S. Borowitz has received a major national award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for her groundbreaking research.

UB’s Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT) realized its largest economic impact to date — $64.6 million — during 2013, awarding more than $537,000 to 19 Western New York companies to assist them in developing new life sciences technology.

CUBRC has pledged $250,000 to support UB researcher John L. Crassidis’ efforts to track dangerous space debris.

UB researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures the vibrations of proteins that are critical to human life.