Biochemistry

Our research programs are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative

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Our graduate students assume full partnership in research, and we challenge them to be the sum of our collective expertise. Our faculty and students work on projects without limitations or departmental boundaries.

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Gabriela Popescu, PhD, and PhD candidate Will Borschel.

We provide an environment for you to excel

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PhD candidate Will Borschel submitted his research proposal to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and was awarded a $70,000 grant. Borschel credits his thesis committee with guiding him through the application process. “They weren’t just there for me when it was time to meet—they were always were there for me.”

Our students are active learners

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This year’s student-organized Biochemistry Research Day featured keynote speaker John A. Tainer, PhD, professor of structural biology at The Scripps Research Institute.

We seek to understand how living cells work at the molecular level.

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Michael Garrick, PhD, professor of biochemistry, identified the first protein essential for normal intestinal iron absorption and the first mammalian iron transporter to be characterized at the molecular level. His work provides a major step forward in the understanding of iron metabolism.

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Our faculty researchers make a difference

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Te-Chung Lee, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry, demonstrated for the first time, in an animal model, that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue, reversing heart failure. He and his team showed that this non-invasive procedure increased heart cells and reduced cardiac tissue injury.

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Researcher Spotlight

Copper and Iron Transport

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Daniel Kosman, PhD, studies how organisms acquire and metabolize iron and copper, intrinsically toxic metals essential to cellular respiration and oxygen transport. One of his goals is to develop antifungal drugs to treat infections in humans.
Brain Function and Disease

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Gabriela Popescu, PhD, is studying NMDA receptors in the brain, which are involved in synaptic development, plasticity, memory and learning, as well as in pathologies such as stroke, neurodegeneration, chronic pain, addiction, schizophrenia and epilepsy.
Programmed for Obesity

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Mulchand Patel, PhD, is a specialist in nutritional biochemistry. He found that fetuses of obese mother rats were programmed in utero to develop obesity in adulthood, and was the first to show that this metabolic programming occurs in the fetal hypothalamus.
Comparative Genomics

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Norma Nowak, PhD, studies global comparative genomics and differential gene expression analyses. She contributed to the creation of the BAC libraries used to sequence the human genome.
Understanding Iron Metabolism

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Michael Garrick, PhD, identified the first protein essential for normal intestinal iron absorption and the first mammalian iron transporter to be characterized at the molecular level. His work provides a major step forward in the understanding of iron metabolism.
Exploring Stem Cells’ Potential to Repopulate and Heal Organs

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Richard Gronostajski, PhD, recently received $3.5 million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board to establish a Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center.