Research News

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.

UB faculty member Arun Vishwanath is studying how people fall victim to cyber phishing and what tools can be used to protect them.

Faculty member Josephine Anstey says the relationship between cause and effect in the case of violent video games has not been established.

A genome project funded by the National Science Foundation aims to recruit local and regional high school students to pursue STEM careers.

A new book by UB anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo describes how the Mapuche people of south-central Chile weave myth and history to write their story.

UB is collaborating on a $2 million federal study to determine what influences African-Americans to get screened for colorectal cancer and to develop interventions based on those influences.

UB communication faculty member Ashley Anker has received a
$630,468 federal grant for a project aimed at increasing family consent to organ donation.

UB faculty member Kate Rittenhouse-Olson's cancer therapeutics company is named after her sister, Robin, who died from the disease.

UB researchers are developing a deep-sea computing network to improve how we detect tsunamis, monitor pollution and conduct surveillance.