Recent News

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.

Prof. Chris Li selected to be one of the 2025 ACS Measurement Science Rising Star awardees
6/12/25
Chris Li has been selected to be one of the 2025 ACS Measurement Science Rising Star awardees. The award is intended to celebrate early-career researchers breaking new areas in the chemical sciences. All the awardees will be collected and promoted in a special issue at the end of the year.
APS appoints Eva Zurek as Lead Editor of Physical Review Research
6/12/25
Zurek will play a key leadership role in shaping the future of PRResearch, APS’ Open Access journal with a wide-ranging scope touching all aspects of physics and physics-related research. Her tenure begins June 1, 2025.

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