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  Federal grant awarded to SUNY Downstate STAR Program to enhance opioid addiction treatment training

  The $450,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will support medication-assisted treatment training for medical, nursing, and physician assistant students

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  UB researcher named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Michael W. Russell, professor emeritus in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, was recognized for his novel approaches to mucosal immunization.

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  Upstate grad student lands prestigious NIH fellowship to study dementia

  Hannah Phillips is a PhD candidate in the departments of neuroscience and psychiatry. She studies how neurons in the brain that control behaviors such as sociability are disrupted by frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

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  Extraordinary natural science collection gifted to SoMAS

  The Hudson River Collection began in the 1960s as “one of the most ambitious environmental research and assessment programs ever performed” on an iconic River that was a focal point for the nascent U.S. environmental movement.

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  SUNY Research Report - November 2019

  By securing funding for new research, fostering collaboration, licensing technologies, and supporting startup companies, SUNY and its partners are leading the way to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

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  Innovation Hub provides funding to seven entrepreneurial teams

  The $500,000 investment will support efforts to  fight respiratory failure, improve batteries, the development of ‘cobots’ and more.

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  Developing Solutions to Growing Environmental Health Care Problems

  As Margaret Mead once said, “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” The growing environmental health field is concerned with what effects an increasingly-altered environment has on human health, including possible influences and toxins and how to control exposure to these hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in air, water, soil, and […]

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• Innovation Hub provides funding to seven entrepreneurial teams

  The $500,000 investment will support efforts to  fight respiratory failure, improve batteries, the development of ‘cobots’ and more.

• Study finds association between poor diet, age-related macular degeneration

  Participants who ate a Western diet were three times more likely to develop late stage of this debilitating eye condition.

• UB researcher named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Russell, whose specialty is mucosal immunology and vaccine development, was recognized for his novel approaches to mucosal immunization and the induction and function of secretory and serum IgA antibodies.

• UB experts available to discuss climate science at AGU Fall Meeting

  UB researchers study climate change using methodologies that range from Arctic field work to ice sheet modeling.

• New research reveals how antiretroviral drugs may damage the hearts of infants exposed to HIV but uninfected

  Uninfected babies who are exposed to HIV and antiretroviral therapy in utero exhibit cardiac abnormalities early in life, suggesting that the drugs may put these babies at risk of adverse cardiac events.  

• Scientists share updates, including maps, from Tonawanda Coke Soil Study

  Researchers are working to complete an analysis of whether pollutants found in soil may have originated from Tonawanda Coke.

• Your brain on drugs is topic of UB pharmacologist’s new book for a popular audience

  From opium’s origins to the opioid epidemic, “Our Love Affair with Drugs” explores the eternal human quest to kill pain and attain new levels of consciousness.

• Study: Getting a good night’s rest is important for better bone health

  Getting five or fewer hours of sleep a night is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD) and higher odds of osteoporosis, according to the findings of the largest study of sleep and BMD to date among U.S. postmenopausal women.

• After trade deal, unhealthy foods flowed into Central America, Dominican Republic, study finds

  The research highlights the importance of studying ties between trade and diet.

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• Developing Solutions to Growing Environmental Health Care Problems

  As Margaret Mead once said, “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” The growing environmental health field is concerned with what effects an increasingly-altered environment has on human health, including possible influences and toxins and how to control exposure to these hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in air, water, soil, and […]

• Driven by Personal Loss, Researcher Embarks On A Quest For a Better Breast Cancer Treatment

  Research at SUNY sees many outcomes that provide huge benefits to society, especially in health care. Breast cancer is one area of health care that is advancing, thanks to the quality research taking place around it. Academics and scientists across the SUNY system have long been at work finding all kinds of breakthroughs in the […]

• Preventing, Treating, and Ending the Opioid Epidemic

  We hear about opioids  a lot these days through the news and social media, and the figures are grim. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 130 Americans die  every day from an opioid overdose, and the number of overdose deaths involving opioids was six times higher in 2017 than it […]

• Experts and Researchers Come Together to Learn More About Lewy Body Dementia

  We knew him from popular films like Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam, and Jumanji, along with his long career in stand-up comedy. His untimely death shocked us all, and it wasn’t until much later we finally began to learn more about the causes. The late comedian Robin Willliams died tragically in 2014 of suicide, brought […]

• Building Stronger Communities and Critical Infrastructure With Future-Focused Research

  Changes in local weather patterns caused by a warming planet are posing unforeseen risk to the systems and structures that allow society to function. In New York State, unprecedented flooding in New York City and the Mohawk River Valley heavily damaged transportation systems. Destructive hurricanes in Long Island and the Catskill Mountains destroyed power supplies. […]

• Water Quality Research Is Helping To Protect Our Public Health

  The numbers tell the story. Although water is the most abundant resource on the planet, just 3% is fresh water, and just 1% of that is available for drinking. It’s clear that water sustainability – the greatest guarantee for its availability – requires responsible and proper management. Our waterways are essential to the many various […]

• Turn Your Ideas into Market Ready Products with the 2019 Technology Accelerator Fund

  Across the SUNY system, there are great minds doing great things in research. New ideas in computer technologies, medical goods, educational resources, and more are being developed by the great minds in SUNY research. Since its launch in April 2011, the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), which is jointly funded by the State University of New […]

• Efforts in SUNY Research and Education are Improving Healthcare Around the World

  Eliminating dengue fever and other devastating tropical diseases, improving healthcare delivery to remote locations, and addressing malnutrition among victims of natural disasters. These are among the many lofty goals of the faculty, staff, and students across the SUNY system whose aim—through their research and education—is to improve human health across the globe. Established in 2015, […]

• Nobel History: A Look Back at the Global Impact Delivered Through SUNY Research & Academics

  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has existed to acknowledge superior contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature, and the cause of peace. This week, the 2018 Nobel Prize announcements are taking place to give us the next set of difference makers in these academic and social fields. Their efforts will most likely be felt for […]