The research interests of our basic sciences faculty span
essentially all of the modern biomedical sciences and involve many
multidisciplinary collaborations with our school’s
physician-scientists.
Our research programs share the common goal of seeking to
understand how cells and organisms function, including how they may
respond to environmental signals, change during development or be
disrupted in disease. We pursue this understanding at levels
ranging from the atomic to the integrated system.
While different faculty members and their students may use distinct approaches to answering these questions, the strategies and techniques that they use are both overlapping and complementary.
We employ the most cutting-edge tools of molecular, cellular,
structural and computational biology in our work.
The community of scientists represented in the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PPBS) also interact through school- and/or university-wide thematic groups, including:
Such multidisciplinary and interdepartmental groups enrich our
training by providing students the opportunity for regular contact
with faculty and student colleagues throughout the biological and
biomedical community in Buffalo, in addition to everyday contact
with faculty and students in their home department.
These groups sponsor seminars, workshops and symposia open to
all interested researchers. Most of the research done by group
members involves direct collaboration with graduate students.
The departments that make up PPBS uniformly have as a goal that their graduates, representing the sum of our collective faculty expertise, should emerge better trained than any of the faculty.
