Thomas Begley, associate director of UAlbany's RNA Institute and Williams-Raycheff Endowed Professor of Biology, examines a petri dish with a student in his laboratory. Begley is leading federally funded research exploring how woodsmoke exposure and age-related DNA damage contribute to disease and how RNA-based discoveries could lead to new treatments. (Photo by Zach Durocher) You can watch the research in action: Could Yoghurt Protect Firefighters' Lungs?!
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Sukanta Basu was awarded $302,322 by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for a project to build a new tool that combines NASA satellite data with weather and climate models to help improve power outage management. He is being supported by UAlbany colleagues June Wang and Xin Li.
Ben Boivin was awarded $430,375 by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for his project, “Development of Small Molecules that Activate PTP1B and OtherPhosphatases,” over the course of August 2026 through July 2028.
Felix Ye of Mathematics and Statistics received a three-year, $200,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop data-driven tools that make it faster and more efficient to simulate complex systems in physics, chemistry and biology.
