Sixteen faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the school’s faculty during the past several months.

Ji Li, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, received a $198,000 grant to study a novel signaling pathway that, when activated, helps protects the heart from damage caused by ischemia.

Innovations developed at least in part by faculty at UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences accounted for nearly 40 percent of the provisional patent applications filed by the university in 2012.

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, has been named a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, has been named councilor of the Behavioral Pharmacology Division of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.