Aashutosh Vihani, a junior in the Department of Biochemistry, has received the 2013 Mary Rosenblum Somit Scholarship for academic excellence.

Jian Feng, PhD, will use a $1 million state grant to explore molecular signatures of neurons in two types of Parkinson’s disease patients.

Richard B. Bankert, VMD, PhD, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, have received 2013 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

The undergraduate and graduate biomedical sciences commencement for the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences took place May 9 at the Center for the Arts.

UB researchers have identified defects in a mechanosensitive ion channel leading to a hereditary anemia.

Frederick Sachs, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics, has won the 2013 Kenneth S. Cole Award from the Biophysical Society.

Stephen Rudin, PhD, has won a $2.5 million grant to continue developing state-of-the-art technology within a new class of imaging detectors.

A pharmaceutical firm developing a new therapy for muscular dystrophy is open for business in UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.