ECONOMIC IMPACT

The CoE's scientific mission goes hand-in-hand with its mission to drive economic development in the Buffalo Niagara region and New York State. The CoE generates new life sciences ideas and technologies. These ideas and technologies produce opportunity. The CoE pursues research in the mechanistic process of human disease with the goal of developing diagnostics tools and therapeutic interventions, preventive treatment and other disease management devices and processes to promote the health and well being of the population. Turning discoveries into actual products and services is where the CoE's technology transfer and commercialization resources come into play.

The progress report below for the region's life sciences activities from 2001 to 2005 indicates a positive trend associated with the approach to integrating translational research combined with economic development and business support services.

News

Turning Research Into Practicality is Focus of Roswell Park Workshop
11/4/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "The daylong 'translational research workshop' brought academics and industry representatives together to tackle the difficulties and opportunities of commercializing medical research..." [Read On...]

UB Engineering Professor Honored at White House
10/08/2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - "President Obama honored Takeuchi for inventing the battery that powers many of the world's implanted medical devices, but he just as easily could have lauded her as living proof that the American dream still comes true..." [Read On...]

Life Science Careers Touted: UB leads consortium promoting variety of job possibilities in Western New York
10/6/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "A program designed to bring careers in the life sciences within reach of more Western New York job-seekers was rolled out Tuesday by a consortium of agencies and businesses led by two branches of the University at Buffalo.  The program is called iSciWNY... " [Read On...]

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Events

November 19 - "Vybion: The Successful Morphing of a Contract Research Organization into a Therapeutics Company" featuring Lee Henderson, CEO, Vybion Inc. Click here for more information.

December 10 - "The Passport of a Life Sciences Entrepreneur," featuring Shreefel Mehta, Ph.D., MBA.  Click here for more information. 

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