Research News

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  • Can AI help spot ‘healthy’ viruses in our bodies?
    5/21/26

    UB researchers have been awarded $1.6 million grant to use lab methods and AI to probe the human virome.

  • How long should HCV treatment last?
    5/29/14

    A study led by UB faculty member Andrew Talal is the first to trace in real-time how the drug telaprevir inhibits viral replication in the liver and how it clears hepatitis C virus from infected cells and plasma of infected patients.

  • Improving research experience
    5/26/14

    More than 60 UB faculty and staff gathered last week to discuss how to improve research opportunities for undergraduate students.

  • Spinoff targets cancer
    5/26/14

    Laurent Levy left UB in 1999 with a dream: to transform his postdoctoral research on nanomedicine into real-world products for patients battling cancer. Today, the scientist-turned-entrepreneur is zeroing in on that goal.

  • Collaboration, innovation themes of workshop
    5/22/14

    What innovations are needed to help people remain in their homes as they age? That question was at the center of the discussion during a workshop organized by UB’s Center for Excellence in Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environments (Home-BASE).

  • Maynard receives poetry award
    5/22/14

    A compilation of the work of 20th-century American poet Robert Duncan edited by UB scholar James Maynard has won the inaugural Pegasus Award for Criticism from the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.

  • Methadone programs key in hepatitis C education
    5/22/14

    People who inject drugs and are enrolled in a drug treatment program are receptive to education about, and treatment for, hepatitis C virus, according to a study by researchers at several institutions, including UB.

  • Engineering trio elected fellows
    5/22/14

    Within the past year, three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering were elected as fellows by the national professional organizations in their respective specialties in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in their fields.

  • RIA stresses alcohol's role in sexual assault
    5/22/14

    Reducing binge drinking on campuses must be a priority in addressing issues of college sexual assault, according to a new Expert Summary from UB’s Research Institute on Addictions.

     

  • CUT lowers simulation time
    5/15/14

    A mathematical model developed from a UB student’s award-winning master's thesis dramatically reduces the time needed to simulate natural disasters.

  • Going beyond the surface
    5/15/14

    A new technology developed by UB researchers could take light-based cancer treatment deep inside the body, providing another alternative for patients.