Research Centers & Institutes

Well-established research centers across the university support collaborative, multidisciplinary research where students can interact with faculty across departmental boundaries.

Our affiliated research centers include:

  • Center for Computational Research
    7/10/25

    A state-of-the-art supercomputing facility with high-end visualization laboratories. Provides consulting services including bioinformatics support, scientific and medical visualization, advanced database design and data mining, parallel computing and software engineering.

  • Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
    10/26/20

    An independent, not-for-profit biomedical research facility committed to improving human health by conducting basic-science research aimed at determining how disease develops at the molecular level. The institute, whose president is Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, is home to the UB Department of Structural Biology.

  • Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
    5/13/25

    A National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. For more than a century, Roswell Park’s physician-scientists have made fundamental contributions to reduce the cancer burden and helped set national standards for cancer care, research and education.

  • UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
    7/10/25

    Executive Director: Norma J. Nowak, PhD

    Home to more than 250 scientists and research staff with physical, biological and computational expertise who are engaged in interdisciplinary translational research collaborations.

  • Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology
    7/10/25

    Director: Thomas Melendy, PhD

    Brings together researchers and their students/fellows interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases and host defenses against them.