Research News

UB graduate student Michael Healy spent the summer in India, where he worked on two major projects that will employ new technologies to screen for oral and cervical cancers in high-risk populations.

A gift of $600,000 from the Patrick P. Lee Foundation is funding a UB scientist’s promising research on the cause of schizophrenia.

The Miami Dolphins scandal raises questions about the role that bystanders who may witness bullying can play, the director of UB’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention says.

UB, representing a national consortium of eight research universities and institutes, has been awarded a prestigious $25-million Science and Technology Center grant from the National Science Foundation to transform the field of structural biology, including drug development, using X-ray lasers.

Stingrays move through water with such ease that UB researchers are studying how their movements could be used to build more agile and maneuverable unmanned underwater vehicles.

History faculty member Susan Cahn has received a prestigious William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Center.

As part of a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, UB researchers are studying ways to make buses safer and more accessible for all riders.

UB has received several grants totaling $1.86 million from the National Institutes of Health that will expand HIV pharmacology research to include drug development for hepatitis C and tuberculosis.

UB has joined the national database ResearchMatch that brings together volunteers who want to participate in research with university investigators who are recruiting subjects for their studies.

A new UB study shows how the wrong levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer’s disease can lead to dangerous blockages in brain cells.