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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699">  <base href=""> <table width=99%> <tr>  <td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 33, NUMBER 14</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, January 24, 2002</b></font></td> </tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="Graphics/pataki.jpg" width="300" height="238"><br> <font size=1 face="arial">Photo: Frank Miller</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <p><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">Moving<br> Forward </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5" color="#006699"><br> </font> </p> <P><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Gov. George Pataki, flanked by Mark Hamister, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, announces $50 million in state and $150 million in private funding for the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics during a visit to Buffalo on Dec. 6. </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><p> </font> </td> </tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark></font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Bioinformatics center moves forward </b></font><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><i><font size="3">Center of excellence sees pledges of state, federal, private funding of $200 million</font></i></font> </p> <p><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With pledges of state, federal and private funding totaling more than $200 million, the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformaticsa collaborative effort involving New York State, industry partners and academic institutions that promises to transform the Western New York economyhas taken a major step toward becoming a reality.</font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f2mark></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>UB leads SUNY in R&D expenditures</b></font> <p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">The university ranks among New York State's top colleges and universitiesboth public and privatewhen it comes to expenditures for research and development, according to the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR).</font></font><font size="2"></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font> <div 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