Recent News

Recent Chem. Eng. grad and former Watson Lab researcher receives NSF GRFP Award
7/17/26
Nicholas Reilly, a recent chemical engineering alum from the University at Buffalo, has received the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award.
Professor Luis Colón retires, leaving behind a legacy defined by mentorship as much as research
7/17/26
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.
How to destroy "forever chemicals" for good
7/27/26
Prof. Steven Ray was interviewed by PNAS to share his Plasma Rays technique of breaking down forever chemical molecules.
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.

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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