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Growth in Life Sciences boosted by familiar voices

Jun-25-2010 — As the local life sciences industry attempts to grow, having a booster such as Terry McGuire in its corner is a plus. He is co-founder and managing general partner of Polaris Venture Partners. The $3 billion venture capital fund with offices in Boston and Seattle helps develop life sciences and information technology companies.

Start-ups seek help of angel investors

Jun-25-2010 — The Buffalo Niagara region is trying to stimulate more angel investing activity by connecting the area’s pool of budding entrepreneurs with funding sources. A forum held Thursday was designed, in part, to expose angel investors to high-tech ventures that might be worth their dollars.

Moog Wins Contract To Supply Pitch Systems For Offshore Project

Jun-18-2010 — East Aurora, N.Y.-based Moog Industrial Group, a division of Moog Inc., has won a contract to supply REpower Systems AG with electric blade pitch control systems for the RWE Innogy Nordsee Ost (North Sea East) I offshore wind farm.

CTG Recognized on Health-Care IT List

Jun-18-2010 — Computer Task Group Inc. is once again one of the largest health-care information-technology providers. Healthcare Informatics magazine listed the Buffalo-based IT solutions and services company as the 69th largest company among the top 100 healthcare IT providers and the seventh largest company generating 100 percent of its 2009 healthcare provider revenue from consulting services.

Reduces Risk of Disease Progression for Multiple Myeloma Patients

Jun-14-2010 — Updated data from a National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trial conducted by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) was presented June 6th at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. The study evaluated the benefits of maintenance treatment with lenalidomide (Revlimid®) administered orally following an autologous stem cell transplant for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, compared to placebo. Maintenance therapy is an ongoing treatment

An introduction to pharmacogenomics

Jun-14-2010 — In a presentation titled "The Genomics Revolution and Personalized Medicine," Daniel Brazeau, director of the Pharmaceutical Genetics Laboratory, introduced an audience of more than 100 people to the burgeoning field of pharmacogenomics, which seeks to tailor treatments for diseases to a patient's genetic makeup and the specific disease conditions of each patient.

UB named MAC environment champion

Jun-14-2010 — UB earned the honor by purchasing more than 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, representing 8 percent of the university’s annual electricity usage for 2009-10. The EPA estimates that UB’s purchase of green power is equivalent to carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of more than 1,000 average American homes each year, or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,000 passenger cars annually.

Catheter Superior to Talc for Management of Malignant Plueral Effusions

Jun-14-2010 — About half of all cancer patients with metastatic disease will develop malignant pleural effusions (MPE), which result in significant respiratory challenges and a poorer overall quality of life. A lack of research data has hampered physicians’ efforts to effectively manage MPE. But a recent Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Phase III clinical study that compared two MPE management modalities found that indwelling small catheter drainage (SCD) provides much better palliation than talc slurry pl

Electro Sonic Grand Opening

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Renovations to Begin at Convention Center

Jun-11-2010 — A $7 million face-lift is scheduled to start Monday on the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center in hopes of attracting more business and boosting the region’s economy.

M&T Opens Commercial Office in Toronto

Jun-08-2010 — M&T Bank Corp. said Monday that it is opening a commercial banking office in downtown Toronto — its first such international office—to offer banking services to Canadian businesses.

Region in Top 10 as Place to Raise Family

Jun-08-2010 — Western New Yorkers have been saying it for years, but a national magazine has made it official. The Buffalo Niagara region is ranked 10th in the country on Forbes. com’s list of “America’s Best Places to Raise a Family.”

NYPA Reviews Five GLOW Proposals

Jun-08-2010 — BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - New York Power Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced the start of a multi-phase review process for five proposals vying to construct the Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) project or projects in the New York State waters of Lake Erie and/or Lake Ontario.

Allentown Art Festival

Jun-08-2010 — In Buffalo, New York, on one special weekend each June, it is indeed art that makes life for the tens of thousands of people who visit the Allentown Art Festival. The Allentown Art Festival takes place in the Allentown Historic Preservation District of Buffalo, New York. Tens of Thousands art patrons visit the Festival to enjoy the beauty of Buffalo's weather in June, the charm and uniqueness of the Allentown area and the quality of the art and crafts presented by the over 400 juried exhibitors.

Yahoo computing coop

Jun-04-2010 — The Yahoo Computing Coop (YCC) is the culmination of a five-year effort to completely rethink the company’s data center design. While rivals at Google and Microsoft have gotten more attention for data center innovations, the Yahoo team has been quietly refining its approach to building faster, cheaper data centers that will be dramatically more efficient than previous facilities.

Five Proposals Begin NYPA Review Process For Great Lakes Offshore Wind Project

Jun-04-2010 — BUFFALO—New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced the start of a multi-phase review process for five proposals vying to construct the Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) project or projects in the New York State waters of Lake Erie and/or Lake Ontario.

Devoted to Buffalo, However Far They Roam

Jun-01-2010 — Buffalo specialties served at Bonnie’s Grill: beef on weck and chicken wings.New York City is filled with expatriate tribes. There are the Brits who pack Fiddlesticks for rugby games and Tea and Sympathy for scones, the diplomats in and around the United Nations, and French and Francophiles who play boules every July 14 on Macdougal Street.

The IRS 20-Factor Test

Jun-01-2010 — The IRS considers the existence of an employer-employee relationship to depend on whether the worker is subject to the direction and control of the employer, based on the following factors:

BNIA Traffic up in April

Jun-01-2010 — In what officials hope is a sign of a turnaround, passenger traffic at Buffalo Niagara International Airport rose in April — the first time in three months.

President Obama Rides into Buffalo with Economic Hope

Jun-01-2010 — An ebullient President Obama swung through Buffalo on Thursday, telling workers at a local factory — and Americans across the country — that the economy is turning around and likely to get better still in the months and years ahead.