• Doctors with protective suits in hospital with patient.
    Developing models to help prepare for COVID-19 surge
    4/13/20

    The models are changing, but so far they signal social distancing is working in Western New York, UB experts in health informatics say.

  • Digitalis lanata, grown in a greenhouse. This species of foxglove plant makes digoxin, a chemical that is used sparingly to treat heart failure.
    Foxgloves produce heart medicine. Can science do it better?
    4/13/20

    Two studies mark an early step in a UB biologist’s quest to understand how the popular garden plants make medicinal compounds.

  • Concept of innovation.
    Innovation Hub awards $450,000
    4/10/20

    The funding to researchers at UB and Roswell Park aims to rapidly commercialize technology.

  • Businessperson showing laptop, tablet and smartphone with cyber security signs on screens.
    Cyber tips for teleworkers
    4/9/20

    UB faculty member Alan Katerinsky says security is particularly key for those whose infrastructure was not built with significant remote access in mind.  

  • 500 stacked tubes of VTM.
    Stepping up to break bottlenecks in COVID-19 testing
    4/9/20

    After hearing about the lack of VTM for local COVID-19 testing, Jacobs School faculty quickly teamed up to help Kaleida Health fill the need.

  • KSL Biomedical, a Buffalo-based health care startup located in Williamsville, NY, has partnered with the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG).
    UB partner advancing COVID-19 diagnostics
    4/8/20

    Western New York-based KSL Biomedical is looking to raise funds and accelerate deployment of these vital innovations.

  • Illustration depicting political politicization over twitter, with donkey and elephant divided by twitter bird symbols.
    Fake Russian Twitter accounts politicized vaccines
    4/6/20

    The topic wasn’t traditionally politically divisive, but now the threat becomes more relevant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, UB expert Yotam Ophir says.

  • Mother and daughter in protective masks while outdoors.
    Why does COVID-19 kill some adults but barely affect kids?
    4/6/20

    A new UB clinical study is investigating why the novel coronavirus is so potentially devastating for adults but barely causes a reaction in most children.

  • DNA strand.
    Sharing a tangled genetic history
    4/3/20

    New research adds to the growing evidence that our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals at multiple times in history.

  • Coronavirus.
    UB collaborating with Roswell Park on COVID-19 trial
    4/2/20

    The international clinical trial will make a new treatment option available to Western New York patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

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