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Professor Troy Wood a part of a collaborative effort to use AI to help develop new class of powerful antibodies to treat HIV
4/13/26
UB researchers Gene Morse, Raymond Cha, Nicholas Smith, Qing Ma (not pictured) and Troy Wood collaborated with the NIH and others to uncover promising new antibodies to treat HIV.
UB researchers to study how replacement ‘forever chemicals’ build up in fish
4/13/26
Scientists from UB's RENEW Institute will investigate how fluorotelomers — once thought to be safer PFAS alternatives — penetrate zebrafish cells.
UB team proposes rethinking crystal structure analysis
3/16/26
A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

Tracking forever chemicals across food web shows not all isomers are distributed equally
12/31/25
Samples from water, fish and bird eggs demonstrate the need to measure these unique molecular structures separately.
Prof. Luis De Jesús Báez earns Ovshinsky sustainable energy fellowship from APS
12/1/25
University at Buffalo chemist Luis De Jesús Báez has received the 2025 Stanford R. Ovshinsky Fellowship from the American Physical Society for his work developing new, more sustainable materials for energy storage.

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