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  • January 17, 2024
    UB Startup Receives $2.9 Million to Develop Blood Test for Brain Aneurysms
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  • November 16, 2023
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  • November 13, 2023
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  • September 21, 2023
    Brain Aneurysm Foundation Announces 2023 Research Grants
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  • September 08, 2023
    Mom of 4 Who Died of Brain Aneurysm at Son’s Football Game Donates 4 Organs: ‘She Saved Lives’
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  • September 05, 2023
    Brain Aneurysm Foundation Launches New Campaign to Increase Disease Awareness and Accelerate Research
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  • July 05, 2023
    German Fitness Influencer Jo Lindner Dies of Aneurysm at 30
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  • June 03, 2023
    Influencer Jackie Miller James in Medically Induced Coma After Aneurysm Ruptures a Week from Due Date
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  • May 19, 2023
    Father of ‘Jeopardy!’ star dies of brain aneurysm: Here’s what you need to know
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  • May 05, 2023
    UC Research Team Receives Brain Aneurysm Foundation Grant
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  • AdventHealth Brain Aneurysm Support Group

    Winter Park, FL

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    Lutherville-Timonium, MD

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    San Francisco, CA

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  • November 07, 2019
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  • Research

UB receives funding to develop brain aneurysm screening

In 2002, Western New York entrepreneur Jeff Harvey (Brain Aneurysm Foundation Board Member) lost his wife and high school sweetheart, Carol Harvey, to two ruptured brain aneurysms.

Years later, he is honoring her memory by working with University at Buffalo engineering and medical researchers with the goal of preventing similar deaths.

Jeff Harvey is co-founder of Neurovascular Diagnostics, a UB spinoff company that is developing a low-cost blood test to screen high-risk patients for unruptured brain aneurysms — pathological bulging in blood vessels that can eventually burst. Read full article.

By Charlotte Hsu



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