Award-winning participants in the Department of Medicine’s inaugural Research Day are studying diverse topics, including burnout, cold medications, a new-found anti-bacterial agent and a better leukemia treatment.
Yijun Sun, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, is using a $519,000 award from the National Science Foundation to develop novel analytic methods for the study of microbial communities.
New UB research shows how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life.
UB microbiologists studying bacterial colonization in mice have discovered how the bacteria associated with pneumonia, middle ear infections and other illnesses acquire and spread resistance.
The Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center (WNYSTEM), which recently celebrated its year anniversary, is well into its mission of promoting and facilitating research on stem cells.
Research conducted by Jennifer Surtees, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry, has revealed a molecular mechanism that could contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.
Biochemistry professor Mark R. O’Brian, PhD, has won a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study regulation of bacterial manganese metabolism.
A major grant from the Oishei Foundation will expand bioinformatics and computational biology at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
A UB biochemist in UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and his colleagues have received $3.5 million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board to establish a Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center.