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Private Employment Rises as Public Jobs Fall in Region

Nov-19-2010 — The Buffalo Niagara region job market is turning into two very different stories: Private companies are starting to hire more, while government agencies are cutting back.

Data Notes Faster Growth in Economy

Nov-19-2010 — The index of leading indicators rose for a fourth consecutive month, manufacturing surged in the Philadelphia area, and jobless claims climbed less than forecast, signaling the world’s largest economy is accelerating.

Hotel Expands at Avant Building

Nov-19-2010 — Uniland Development Co. will expand its new Embassy Suites Buffalo hotel to the eighth floor of the Avant Building, adding 29 rooms just over a year after the hotel first opened in the former Dulski Federal Building

Low Testosterone in Diabetics to Be Studied

Nov-19-2010 — A UB endocrinologist has received a three-year $400,000 Junior Faculty Award from the American Diabetes Society to study the effects of low testosterone levels in young men with type 2 diabetes.

Great Lakes Towing Barges Windmill Towers

Nov-18-2010 — The Great Lakes Towing Company was contract by KK Integrated Logistics for the barge shipment of windmill towers from Buffalo, New York to Menominee, Mich. 

Innovative Approach Growth

Nov-15-2010 — The Innovation Center in downtown Buffalo has become a magnet for emerging companies focused on life sciences and biotechnology.

Larkin District Street Work Completed

Nov-12-2010 — Buffalo city leaders joined with First Niagara Financial Group and developer Howard Zemsky on Wednesday to mark the completion of a streetscape beautification project in the Larkin District, while announcing a new $500,000 state grant to restore more commercial and residential buildings.

Planning Groups Applaud UB2020

Nov-12-2010 — The physical UB 2020 plan is the recipient of three awards for excellence in the areas of planning, landscape architecture and economic development, the University at Buffalo announced Tuesday.

Orioles Pick Sportservice

Nov-12-2010 — Food at Baltimore Oriole games will have a local flair but will be provided by a Buffalo company. Delaware North Cos. Sportservice has signed a 12-year partnership with the Orioles to provide food, beverage and retail merchandise services in Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Building a Better Broccoli

Nov-11-2010 — It's one of the simplest decisions Western New York food shoppers make at the store: To buy broccoli.

OncoMed Partners with UB

Nov-08-2010 — We realized that what was going on through the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the UB Academic Health Center and the School of Pharmacy could really help fill all the gaps in order to grow our business, says Burt Zweigenhaft, OncoMed's ceo.

Biomedical firms get grants

Nov-08-2010 — Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, announced more than $1.85 million in federal tax credits to support biomedical research at several area companies.

New Funding to Build Out Innovation Center

Nov-08-2010 — IMMCO Diagnostics, Inc. is one of 20 new tenants to locate at the Center in 2010 Empire State Development (ESD) today announced that the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) was awarded a $4 million Upstate Regional Blueprint Fund grant to support growing life sciences and biotechnology companies, as well as encourage entrepreneurism in Western New York.

Medical campus gets $4 million

Nov-08-2010 — The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus has received a $4 million grant from Empire State Development to help start-up companies at the Innovation Center in downtown Buffalo build out research and development space.

Finding hope in a spider's bite

Nov-08-2010 — UB biophysicists had found a protein in tarantula venom that showed promise against muscular dystrophy, but the idea was greeted skeptically. No one responded when they shopped it around to pharmaceutical companies earlier in the decade. Then Harvey called.

Big-Time Boosters

Nov-05-2010 — A team of Buffalo hospitality and preservation supporters recently spent several days in Austin, but they weren’t there for Texas barbecue or to catch a taping of “Austin City Limits.”

Extreme Growth in U.S. Solar Market Expected

Nov-05-2010 — The United States solar energy market is poised to grow by an extraordinary 42% annually over the next decade, soaring from a current solar power capacity of 1.4 gigawatts to 44 gigawatts by 2020

Executive AirShare comes to Buffalo

Nov-04-2010 — Commercial Real Estate, Travel Industry ...Executive AirShare has selected Buffalo as the first site for its expanded service in the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic market.

WNY Unemployment Rate Drops

Nov-04-2010 — Western New York’s two biggest labor markets — Buffalo and Rochester — added private-sector jobs in September compared to a year ago as the unemployment rate in each city fell.

Buffalo in USA Hockey Spotlight

Nov-04-2010 — Buffalo’s ice hockey reputation takes another step forward Thursday evening when the 38th annual U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner is held at HSBC Arena.

M&T Among Top U.S. Small Biz Lender

Nov-04-2010 — M&T Bank Corp. is the sixth-largest lender of U.S. Small Business Administration loans in the nation.

Spirit Airlines to start Falls Airport Flights

Nov-04-2010 — Spirit Airlines' decision to serve Niagara Falls International Airport provides evidence of the new terminal's drawing power, local officials said Thursday.

CTG Surges in 3Q

Nov-01-2010 — Continued demand in health-care solutions helped lift CTG in the third quarter as profits and revenue each rose more than 26 percent.

BioLabs receives China patent

Nov-01-2010 — Just weeks after reporting positive results in a human safety study, Cleveland BioLabs Inc. announced its radiation treatment drug has received a notice of grant of patent from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China.

$8.2M to extend UB women's health study

Nov-01-2010 — The University at Buffalo, one of four regional women’s health study centers in the nation, announced Friday that it will receive $8.2 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to extend research through 2015.

Nobel news encourages UB spinoff

Nov-01-2010 — A University at Buffalo spinoff company that already has won more than $600,000 in state and federal grants to develop an ultra-thin carbon material for industrial uses might find even more interest now that the scientists who first isolated the substance have won the Nobel Prize in physics.

RPCI's New Therapeutic Cell Production Facility

Nov-01-2010 — Yeong “Christopher” Choi, PhD, has joined Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) as Director of the newly created Therapeutic Cell Production Facility, a critical component of RPCI’s Center for Immunotherapy. The facility is the first of its kind in the Western New York region.

$4.6 million for UB to Purchase State-of-the-Art Cyclotron Essential

Nov-01-2010 — A $4.6 million appropriation from the U.S. Department of Defense will be used by UB to purchase a cyclotron capable of performing state-of-the-art molecular scanning.

Cancer Drug Linked to Quantum Dots

Nov-01-2010 — Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a novel technology using quantum dots that is expected to have major implications for research and treatment of tuberculosis, as well as other inflammatory lung diseases.

Dean of UB Dental School Recognized

Nov-01-2010 — Michael Glick, dean of the UB School of Dental Medicine, has received two prestigious awards in recognition of his contributions to the dental community.