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  Gov. Cuomo announces budget amendment to establish SUNY Curing Alzheimer's Health Consortium

  The initiative will map the genetics of one million people, suffering from or at-risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, over five years. This new wealth of data will support researchers as they work towards developing new treatments and cures.

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  Upstate clinical trial seeks to examine whether nicotine in patch form can improve long term memory

  The Memory Improvement Through Nicotine Dosing study seeks to determine if nicotine can improve attention and memory over a sustained period of time in older adults affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment.

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  Early intervention may not slow progression of schizophrenia, study finds

  According to lead author Katherine Jonas, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry in the Renaissance School of Medicine, those who receive early intervention eventually experience the same declines as those whose treatment started later.

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  Road salt harmful to native amphibians, new research shows

  Binghamton researchers discovered that non-native amphibians were more tolerant to chemical changes than native amphibians, suggesting that the non-native species might have a competitive advantage when introduced into a new, disturbed environment.

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  SUNY Research Report - January 2020

  SUNY is advancing research talent and building on research strength spanning AI, Quantum, Clean Energy, Medicine & Biomed, Aging, Substance Addiction, Environmental Health and Resilient Infrastructure and translating strategic priorities into action.

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  Girls to explore worlds of information technology, startups at free event

  At She Started IT on March 7, participants will meet with women who are entrepreneurs and professionals in the tech sector .

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  Seeking Solutions to Alzheimer’s Disease Through Focused Research

  There is currently no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia. This malady causes sufferers to endure increasingly debilitating cognitive and behavioral problems, eventually reaching the stage where patients can no longer recognize familiar faces or accomplish simple daily tasks. AD is the sixth leading cause of death in the […]

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• Girls to explore worlds of information technology, startups at free event

  At She Started IT on March 7, participants will meet with women who are entrepreneurs and professionals in the tech sector .

• NIH awards UB $21.7 million for clinical and translational science

  The award recognizes UB’s progress in bringing the benefits of clinical and translational science to patients, including the tripling of clinical trials since 2015.

• Scientists resurrect mammoth’s broken genes

  The research builds on evidence that the last mammoths on a lonely Arctic island suffered from a variety of genetic defects.

• UB chemist awarded $2 million NIH grant for enzyme research

  One major objective is to understand molecular interactions that enable enzymes to accelerate chemical reactions.

• Jacobs School names new chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics

  Pletnikov, a native of Moscow, Russia, will relocate to Buffalo and join UB on July 1, 2020. He will be accompanied by his wife, Olga Pletnikova, MD.

• UB researcher aims to get older adults moving and creating

  Project will develop and test the impact of a community-based art-making and thinking-while-moving exercise intervention on cognition and motor function in adults 65 and older.

• To advance robot swarms, UB engineers turn to video games

  By measuring gamers’ brain waves and eye movements, engineers could improve artificial intelligence for autonomous robots.

• New X-ray method has ‘profound implications’ for the development of lifesaving drugs

  Researchers have developed a way to unambiguously identify and count metal atoms in proteins in an efficient and routine way, revealing new information that was there, but previously hidden.

• Study finds link between blood fats and artery size in people with MS

  Researchers' aim was to determine the effect of a person’s blood lipids on the major arteries outside the skull.

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• Seeking Solutions to Alzheimer’s Disease Through Focused Research

  There is currently no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia. This malady causes sufferers to endure increasingly debilitating cognitive and behavioral problems, eventually reaching the stage where patients can no longer recognize familiar faces or accomplish simple daily tasks. AD is the sixth leading cause of death in the […]

• 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, […]