Downtown Campus News

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Media Advisory: World’s high tech leaders meeting in Buffalo
7/17/17

EDISON conference assembles 120 top scientists to discuss computers, solar power and more.

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Study provides definitive evidence that testosterone replacement makes Type 2 diabetic men more sensitive to insulin
11/30/15

Findings demonstrate that testosterone is a metabolic hormone as well as a sex hormone, UB researchers say.

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UB to prepare unemployed workers for manufacturing jobs
2/4/16

The 14-week Manufacturing Production Technician (MPT) program combines online learning with classroom-based training and mentoring.

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The secret to 3-D graphene? Just freeze it
3/3/16

Engineers tame the notoriously fickle supermaterial in aerogel form with a 3-D printer and ice.

Media advisory: Seven-ton MRI machine to be hoisted seven stories high and installed in UB lab
4/11/14
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A seven-ton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that will make possible groundbreaking research into multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke and other diseases, will be hoisted by a crane seven stories and delivered into the University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Research Center on Saturday, April 12.
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$4.5 million bequest gift from beloved faculty member to benefit Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
11/17/17

The late Peter Ayers Nickerson, a beloved UB faculty member who spent nearly 50 years teaching in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has given $4.5 million to the school.

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Major New York State award to UB will improve Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis and treatment in Western New York
2/15/16

Western New Yorkers with Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias will soon have access to improved care.

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Clinical trials treat epilepsy patients in WNY with medical marijuana
1/21/16

The trials, conducted through UB and WCHOB, aim to fill gaps in knowledge about the drug’s safety, efficacy.

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If you treat a parent’s depression, will their child’s asthma improve?
3/10/16

UB researchers have been awarded a $3.1 million NIH grant to determine whether treating a depressed caregiver will improve their child’s asthma.  

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Fighting frostbite: UB medical students take action
1/29/16
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Frostbite so severe that it requires the removal of a limb or finger should be rare in an American city in the 21st century. But last year, Steve Gangloff and Chelsey Ciambella found out how common it is among some populations.