• Portrait of Chemistry Professor, Janet Morrow and Bradford La Salle of startup company Ferric Contrast in the Natural Sciences Complex.
    UB spinoff Ferric Contrast wins federal R&D funding
    5/21/20

    The company, co-founded by UB chemist Janet Morrow, is developing iron-based contrast agents for MRI.

  • The Los Angeles skyline barely visible through thick smog.
    Engineer receives grant to study air pollution impact
    5/21/20

    Kang Sun has been awarded a $100,000 NASA grant to study air pollution in three regions of the world as it relates to COVID-19.

  • Community Health Equity Research Institute launch press conference.
    Virtual colloquium to focus on health disparities research
    5/20/20

    Planned before the COVID-19 pandemic, the event has become even more relevant with the devastation the virus is causing in the African American community.

  • Skyline of a Chinese city shrouded in air pollution.
    Traffic restrictions lower air pollution-related deaths
    5/20/20

    Researchers note sharp reductions in two common air pollutants in Chinese cities, thanks to COVID-19 restrictions.

  • Business people's silhouettes in a meeting.
    Going overboard?
    5/19/20

    Investors prefer directors who serve on fewer corporate boards, a School of Management study has found

  • UB Biorepository, in the Clinical and Translational Research Center, has the capacity to collect, process, store and distribute millions of biological specimens. The UB Biorepository program is designed to advance discovery and innovation in health care.
    UB preps to reopen research activities
    5/19/20

    While stay-away orders haven't yet been lifted, now is the time to prepare for reopening labs, UB administrators stress at a virtual town hall.

  • A doctor measures a patient's waistline.
    People get fatter as country gets richer
    5/18/20

    As a nation’s coffers grow, so do the waistlines of its citizens, according to new research from the School of Management.

  • This figure shows a large quantity of human cells (labeled green) in a 17-day old mouse embryo (labeled blue). Most of the human cells are red blood cells, which are accumulated in the mouse fetal liver.
    Scientists generate millions of mature human cells
    5/15/20

    The advance could eventually lead to game-changing stem cell treatments for critical diseases, and better models of infectious diseases like COVID-19.

  • Interior of an ancient drugstore. Weighing machine in the foreground. A drugstore-museum in Lvov Ukraine.
    Repurposing drug to fight ulcers
    5/15/20

    Researchers supported by UB oral biologist Keith Kirkwood found that the century-old drug Suramin may be a promising treatment for oral mucositis and diabetic foot ulcers.

  • Coronavirus.
    Loss of taste or smell predicts positive COVID-19 test
    5/14/20

    The UB study of 961 health care workers could shift test criteria.

     

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