• Concept of researching coronary artery disease, blood clot prevention, heart health.
    Pharmacy professor receives grant
    6/16/20

    Maya Chilbert has received a seed grant from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy to examine blood clot prevention therapies.

  • Younger man looking after an elderly man.
    Fatigue key to quality of care for dementia patients
    6/15/20

    Family caregivers' fatigue and sleep problems are common symptoms, but are underrecognized and unmanaged, according to results of a new study led by nursing professor Yu-Ping Chang.

  • Various forms of data; concept of ontology.
    Ontology powerful weapon against COVID-19
    6/12/20

    UB scientists are working to develop a common vocabulary for data to assist in the fight against the coronavirus.

  • OptiMed Technology co-founders Robert Bachellor, Praveen Arany and Daniel Chan.
    UB spinoff awarded grant to advance medicinal toothpaste
    6/11/20

    OptiMed Technology will use the $50,000 award from the Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund to speed development of its products to market.

  • Child with chips behind a computer.
    COVID-19 lockdowns worsen childhood obesity
    6/9/20

    Research found that obese kids under lockdown in Italy ate more junk food and watched more TV at the expense of physical activity.

  • Catherine Dulmus.
    Partnership seeks to improve health outcomes
    6/9/20

    The School of Social Work and Department of Biostatistics will work with Integrity Partners for Behavioral Health to build a data warehouse.

  • Illustration featuring an image of Ben Franklin on a $100 bill wearing a mask.
    Structuring coronavirus bailouts
    6/5/20

    The government should acquire stakes in the firms — not just hand out loans, according to a UB finance professor Veljko Fotak.

  • A retail employee turns a sign that reads "open" in store window.
    Focus now on community reopening
    6/5/20

    With the first wave of COVID-19 cases subsiding, UB informatics experts have turned their attention to the effects of reopening the local economy.

  • Anne Curtis.
    Disparities in treatment for high-risk cardiac patients
    6/3/20

    A clinical trial led by UB cardiologist Anne Curtis found race and sex disparities in the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

  • Andreas Daum pictured in front of Pico del Teide volcano on the Atlantic island on Tenerife this January 2020.
    Daum says COVID-19 lessons found in Humboldt’s work
    6/3/20

    The UB historian has highlighted the 19th-century scientist’s take on pandemics around 1800 ─ and what we can learn from it today ─ in an essay for a leading German newspaper.

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