Recent News

Luis Colón retires, leaving behind a legacy defined by mentorship as much as research
4/24/26
After 33 years at UB, Luis Colón is retiring, leaving behind a career defined as much by the students he mentored as by the research he conducted.
Penguin ‘toxicologists’ find forever chemicals in remote Patagonia
4/13/26
A study by UB and UC Davis researchers shows a non-invasive way animals can help monitor their environment.
More than a pretty picture, star-shaped nanomaterial changes energy storage
4/13/26
The nanomaterial vanadyl hydroxide behaves more like a pseudocapacitor than a battery when it forms as a star-shaped structure, a UB study has found.
How One Fat Molecule Can Help Trigger Both Cell Limbo and Cell Death
4/13/26
A study led by the Atilla-Gokcumen group sheds light on why some cells remain alive but no longer divide.

Heppner Named Associate Editor of Journal
9/25/25
David Heppner, Jere Solo Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named an associate editor of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Journal of Medicinal chemistry - regarded as the flagship journal for drug discovery research worldwide.
Speed isn’t everything when it comes to covalent inhibitor drugs, study finds
8/25/25
Human cancer cell cultures in the lab of David Heppner. Heppner's team recently found that faster binding for targeted covalent inhibitor drugs was linked to greater potency, but only to a certain point

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