Faculty Profiles

Aras, Kedar

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biomedical Engineering; Arrhythmias; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Electrophysiology; Cardiac Electrophysiology - Clinical; Cardiovascular Disease; Transcriptomics; Translational Research; Metabolic Syndrome; Obesity; Sex Differences
Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease
Duffey, Michael

PhD

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Professor of Medicine

Specialty/Research Focus: Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Gastroenterology
Feng, Jian

PhD

UB Distinguished Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Protein Folding; Signal Transduction; Toxicology; Transcription and Translation; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neurology; Pathophysiology
Hofmann, Wilma

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Cancer Treatment and Prevention; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Pathophysiology; Protein Function and Structure; Transcription - Gene; Transcription and Translation; Transcription Factors; Pathophysiology
Kuhlman, Sandra

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Computational Biology; Imaging In Vivo; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuroscience; Schizophrenia; Vision science
Neske, Garrett

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Electrophysiology; Imaging In Vivo; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Parkinson’s disease; Schizophrenia; Vision science
Parker, Mark

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Transgenic organisms; Vision science
Pletnikov, Mikhail

M.D. Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Qin, Feng

PhD

Director of Biophysics Graduate Program

Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Pain Management
Rasmusson, Randall

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Neuroscience; Stem Cells
Roy, Dheeraj

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Neurobiology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Translational Research
Suchyna, Thomas

Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Arrhythmias; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Drug Development; Electrophysiology; Biophysics; Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Image Processing and Analysis; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Proteins; Drug Design; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Muscular Dystrophy; Preclinical Research
Weil, Brian

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cardiac pharmacology; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Inflammation; Pathophysiology; Stem Cells; Translational imaging; Translational Research
Yan, Zhen

PhD

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Schizophrenia; Signal Transduction; Transcriptomics; Translational Research; Neurodegenerative disorders; Pathophysiology

Collaborating Faculty

Alexander, Jessy

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Cell Metabolism; Gene Expression; Immunology; Inflammation; Intrinsic Immunity; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuroimmunology; Neuroscience; Pathophysiology; Transgenic organisms

Volunteer Faculty

Chappell, Richard, PHD
Hickey, Donald, MD
Jiang, Qiu-Xing, PHD