UB’s Global Health Day Symposium brought together experts from WHO, NIH and UB to discuss the next stages of response to the pandemic.

The institute has designated four new focus areas, with proposal support, shared instrumentation and other resources available to UB researchers.

Overlap of age at diagnosis of breast cancer and age with high consumption of caffeine, and inconsistent findings from previous studies, motivated researchers to study whether caffeine could affect breast cancer risk.

Women who consumed sofrito more than once per day had a 67% decrease in risk compared to women who never ate it.

The three projects will tackle extreme weather, air pollution and autism spectrum disorder, and sustainable energy.

UB-led research reveals how fluctuating air pollution at the Beijing Olympics affected local residents’ bodies at the level of metabolites.

With the funding, researchers will tackle four projects related to energy, the environment and water sustainability.