Faculty Profiles
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene therapy
Arany, Praveen
Assistant Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Pathology; Oral Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Gene Expression; Signal Transduction; Cell Cycle
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Drug abuse; Behavioral pharmacology; Gene therapy; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Gene Expression; Neuropharmacology
Beirowski, Bogdan
MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigator at the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Bioinformatics; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Regulation of metabolism
Specialty/Research Focus: Forensic Psychiatry; Geriatric Psychiatry; Neurology; Psychiatry; Multiple Sclerosis; Alzheimer Disease / Memory Disorders; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neuropsychology
Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Pathophysiology; Gene Expression; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Bacterial Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Signal Transduction; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Pharmacogenomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Gene Expression; Transcription and Translation
Cain, Michael
MD
Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; Internal Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology
Canty, Jr., John
MD
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Apoptosis and cell death; Cardiac pharmacology; Gene therapy; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular Basis of Disease; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurology; Psychiatry; Bioinformatics
Specialty/Research Focus: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology
Cody, Vivian
PhD
Professor, Structural Biology Department,Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus: Computational Chemistry; Drug Design; Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography; Bioinformatics; Protein Folding
Specialty/Research Focus: Anatomic Pathology
Specialty/Research Focus: Allergy and Immunology; Medical Microbiology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology; Microbial Pathogenesis; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Gene Expression; Signal Transduction; Protein Function and Structure; Bacterial Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: Vision science
Crane, John
MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Micro & Immunol. and of Pharmacol & Tox.
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Vitamins and Trace Nutrient
Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Drug abuse; Behavioral pharmacology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Gene Expression; Gene therapy; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Image Analysis; Biomedical Imaging; Digital Pathology; Image Analysis; Machine Learning; Quantitative Histology; Bioinformatics
Dubocovich, Margarita
PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Specialty/Research Focus: Drug abuse; Behavioral pharmacology; Signal Transduction; Neuropharmacology; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Gastroenterology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Clinical Neurophysiology; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Neurobiology
Dziak, Rosemary
Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Oncology; Cell Cycle; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation
Edgerton, Mira
Research Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Prosthodontics
Elkin, Peter
MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM
Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Professor of Internal Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Pediatrics; Psychology; Behavioral Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Protein Function and Structure; Proteins and metalloenzymes; Vitamins and Trace Nutrient
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Gene therapy; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; RNA; Stem Cells; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurology; Neurodegenerative disorders; Pathophysiology; Apoptosis and cell death; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Protein Folding; Gene Expression; Transcription and Translation; Signal Transduction; Toxicology and Xenobiotics
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Regulation of metabolism; Transgenic organisms; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Gene Expression
Genco, Robert
Vice Provost, STOR, Distinguished Professor of Oral Bio., Perio., Micro.
Specialty/Research Focus: Implant Dentistry; Oral Biology; Periodontics
Gronostajski, Richard
PhD
Professor of Biochemistry; Director of the Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics Graduate Program; Director, Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center (WNYSTEM)
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Gene Expression; Stem Cells; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Protein Function and Structure; Proteins and metalloenzymes
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurodegenerative disorders; Transcription and Translation; Signal Transduction; Toxicology and Xenobiotics
Hicks, Wesley
MD
Chair - Head and Neck/Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Specialty/Research Focus: Ear, Nose, Throat (Otolaryngology); Oncology; Plastic Surgery for Head (Ear, Nose,Throat); Cell growth, differentiation and development
Specialty/Research Focus: Pathophysiology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Endocrinology; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Regulation of metabolism; Transcription and Translation
Specialty/Research Focus: Neuroimmunology; Behavioral pharmacology; Gene therapy; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Gene Expression; Signal Transduction; Protein Function and Structure; Neuropharmacology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiovascular Disease; Diagnostic Radiology; Neuroradiology - Radiology; Radiological Physics; Vascular and Interventional Radiology; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Virology
Specialty/Research Focus: Pediatric Rheumatology; Pediatrics
Kay, Jason
Assistant Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Microbiology; Oral Biology
Kirkwood, Keith
Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Endodontics; Periodontics
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiovascular Disease; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Neurobiology; Protein Function and Structure; Proteins and metalloenzymes; Vitamins and Trace Nutrient
Kramer, Jill
Assistant professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Pathology; Oral Biology
Kwon, Hyuk-Jae
Assistant Professor HS
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Concussion; Sports Medicine; Sports Medicine - Internal Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology
Lesse, Alan
MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education; Senior Associate Dean for Medical Curriculum
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Bioinformatics; Microbial Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: Drug abuse; Behavioral pharmacology; Neurobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Genomics and proteomics; Protein Function and Structure; Proteins and metalloenzymes
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Immunology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Virology; Genome Integrity
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular genetics; Stem Cells; Transcription and Translation; Transgenic organisms; Vision science
Murphy, Timothy
MD
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular genetics
Specialty/Research Focus: Microbial Pathogenesis; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Gene Expression; Regulation of metabolism
Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; RNA; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Regulation of metabolism; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Neurobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Transgenic organisms; Vision science
Patel, Mulchand
PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor,UB Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Biomed. Ed.
Specialty/Research Focus: Endocrinology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Regulation of metabolism; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Protein Function and Structure; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Cornea & External Disease; Ophthalmology; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurological Surgery; Neurology
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene Expression; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Transcription and Translation
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurodegenerative disorders; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Folding; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Drug abuse; Apoptosis and cell death; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction; Toxicology and Xenobiotics
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Signal Transduction; Toxicology and Xenobiotics
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; RNA
Romano, Rose-Anne
Assistant Professor
Rudin, Stephen
PhD, FAAPM, DABR, CHP
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Director, Division of Radiation Physics
Specialty/Research Focus: Diagnostic Radiology; Neurological Surgery; Neuroradiology - Diagnostic Radiology; Neuroradiology - Radiology; Pediatric Radiology - Radiological Physics; Radiological Physics; Radiology; Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Ruhl, Stefan
Professor, DDS, PhD
Specialty/Research Focus: Periodontics; Operative Dentistry; Oral Biology; Pediatric Dentistry
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Image Analysis; Biomedical Imaging; Bioinformatics
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Stem Cells
Scannapieco, Frank
Chair and Professor of Oral Biology, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professional Development
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Periodontics
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Proteins and metalloenzymes; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation
Specialty/Research Focus: Internal Medicine - General
Schwartz, Stanley
MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Microbiology & Immunology; Division Chief, Allergy-Immunology-Rheumatology
Specialty/Research Focus: Allergy and Immunology; Immunology; Proteins and metalloenzymes; RNA
Schweser, Ferdinand
PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, Technical Director of MRI
Specialty/Research Focus: Multiple Sclerosis; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Neuroradiology - Radiology; Parkinson's; Radiological Physics; Radiology; Bioinformatics
Sharma, Ashu
Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Internal Medicine; Radiology; Cardiopulmonary physiology; Autoimmunity; Cardiac pharmacology; Gene Expression; Immunology; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurological Surgery; Neuroradiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Genomics and proteomics; Neurobiology; Neurodegenerative disorders
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Cardiac pharmacology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Signal Transduction; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Dermatology; Autoimmunity; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology
Specialty/Research Focus: Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Gene Expression
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction
Stachowiak, Michal
PhD
Professor, Director Molec. and Structural Neurobiol. Gene Therapy Prog. Director Stem Cell SCEF
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Gene therapy; Genome Integrity; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells; Transcription and Translation
Specialty/Research Focus: Retina; Gene therapy; Neurodegenerative disorders; Pathophysiology; Protein Folding; Gene Expression; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics
Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Genome Integrity; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure
Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Gene Expression; Genome Integrity; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction
Szigeti, Kinga
MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of the Alzheimer‘s Disease and Memory Disorders Center
Specialty/Research Focus: Alzheimer Disease / Memory Disorders; Neurology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; RNA
Tomaszewski, John
MD, MASCP
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Peter A. Nickerson, PhD Chair of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus: Immunopathology; Surgical Pathology; Renal Pathology
Specialty/Research Focus: Function and Structure
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurobiology
Visser, Michelle
Assistant Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Microbiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Microbial Pathogenesis; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Gene Expression; Transcription and Translation; Protein Function and Structure; RNA; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Microbiology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Regulation of metabolism; Signal Transduction; Toxicology and Xenobiotics; Vitamins and Trace Nutrient
Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurology; Neuromuscular Disorders
Wrabetz, Lawrence
MD
Director, Hunter James Kelly Research Institute; Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry
Specialty/Research Focus: Developmental Neurology; Neurology
Specialty/Research Focus: Microbiology; Oral Biology; Oral Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurodegenerative disorders; Pathophysiology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Nuclear Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics
Specialty/Research Focus: Ophthalmology; Retina; Apoptosis and cell death; Gene Expression; Gene therapy; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Protein Folding; Regulation of metabolism; Signal Transduction; Vision science
Zivadinov, Robert
MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology; Director, Translational Imaging Center at Clinical Translational Research Center; Director, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center
Specialty/Research Focus: Neurology; Neuroradiology - Radiology; Vascular and Interventional Radiology; Parkinson's; Multiple Sclerosis; Alzheimer Disease / Memory Disorders; Developmental Neurology; General Neurology; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neuroimaging
