• Zhen Wang, right, Emily Carrol, left, have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart failure drug digoxin.
    UB lab identifies key enzyme for heart failure drug digoxin
    7/19/23

    The breakthrough discovery could help reduce the plant-based drug’s three-year production time and lead to less toxic alternatives.

  • Person grabbing their inflammed knee.
    Pain risk varies significantly across states
    7/14/23

    A UB study found the risk of joint pain is over three times higher in some states — particularly in the South — as compared to others.

  • Chemical model of THC-O-acetate with cannabis plant in the background.
    New study debunks claims of psychedelic cannabinoid
    7/14/23

    Researchers caution that contaminants and expectations created through social media and online message forums may be to blame.

  • Concept of business losses, with one block featuring a % sign and the other up and down arrows.
    In business, all losses are not alike
    7/11/23

    A School of Management study shows how accounting practices distort economic reality.

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    Grinslade selected as AAN fellow
    7/11/23

    The School of Nursing faculty member is being recognized by the American Academy of Nursing for her outstanding impact on health and health care.

  • Zoom image: UB researcher Gang Wu (center front) with students inside his Furnas Hall laboratory. Photo: Douglas Levere
    UB scientist awarded $3M as part of DOE’s Hydrogen Shot
    7/5/23

    The project led by engineering professor Gang Wu will focus on creating efficient, cheap and durable catalysts for hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks.

  • 4-up portrait collage of (l-r) Edith Gonzalez, Daniel Hess, Kasia Kordas and Amy Vanscoy.
    Four faculty receive Fulbright awards
    6/30/23

    Edith Gonzalez, Daniel Hess, Katarzyna “Kasia” Kordas and Amy VanScoy have received the prestigious awards to study and teach abroad during the coming year.

  • Two people toss a yellow ball back and forth.
    Helping older adults keep fit
    6/28/23

    UB faculty member Nikhil Satchidanand’s Movers and Makers program combines exercise and art-making to encourage long-term health.

  • Concept of gender inequality, with a silhouette of a woman standing on a low block, and a silhouette of a man standing on a higher block, holding a ladder.
    Academic fields valuing ‘brilliance’ less welcoming to women
    6/27/23

    A review of CVs shows fewer women enter and more leave these fields, a pattern explained in part by gender-based prejudice.

  • Steven Lipschultz at Children's Hospital.
    Lipshultz chairs group writing AHA statement
    6/23/23

    The UB pediatric cardiologist chaired the writing group that developed the treatment statement for pediatric cardiomyopathy.

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