• Close-up of tired man drinking alcohol.
    Grant could change approach to treating alcohol addiction
    7/6/20

    Reliably measuring recovery capital is the first step to advancing the science of better understanding how different sources of capital facilitate recovery.

  • Steven Lipshultz.
    UB publications stress COVID-19 health care issues
    7/6/20

    Pediatrics researchers also have been tapped to establish patient registries and develop guidelines for treating children with COVID-19.

  • Doctor checking temperature on patient with face mask.
    Clinical research resumes ‘safely and carefully’
    7/3/20

    A limited return to facilities, along with ongoing remote operations, allows time-sensitive research to resume while focusing on the health and safety of employees.

  • Human neurology research concept.
    Higgins announces grant to UB
    7/1/20

    Jian Feng is principal investigator on the $2.2 million NIH grant to develop a method to diagnose Parkinson’s disease before clinical symptoms are present.

  • Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
    Time to talk about race in the workplace
    6/30/20

    Urban studies expert Henry Louis Taylor Jr. says this moment in history calls for a broad reimagining of societal institutions.

  • E. Brooke Lerner standing in front of the open rear doors of an ambulance.
    Nationwide EMS calls decline 26% since start of pandemic
    6/29/20

    The study also found that EMS-attended deaths have doubled, indicating that when EMS calls were made, they often involved a far more serious emergency.

  • Steven Fliesler stands with arms folded beneath a sign for the Ross Eye Institute's Vision Research Center.
    Rethinking origin of rare disorder that causes blindness
    6/26/20

    UB scientist Steven Fliesler and his colleagues report findings that challenge what was previously believed to cause a form of retinitis pigmentosa.

  • Older woman in a job interview in the office at boardroom.
    Age bias laws don't protect older women as they do men
    6/26/20

    UB economist Joanne Song McLaughlin says older women faces with the possibility of both age and gender discrimination are "falling through the cracks."

  • A fluorescence microscopy image shows hollow, spherical protein-RNA vesicles created in the lab.
    Team uses protein, RNA to make hollow, spherical sacks
    6/24/20

    These bubble-like structures called vesicles — crafted without traditional lipid building blocks — could potentially be engineered to deliver drugs, scientists say.  

  • Concept of the human immune system attacking coronavirus.
    Studying factors for poor COVID-19 outcomes, immunity
    6/23/20

    UB physicians have launched a project to explore both biomedical and public health factors of the pandemic.

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