Department News

  • PPBS White Coat Ceremony Honors Student Advancement
    6/30/20

    The PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PPBS) recognized 14 students from the Class of 2019-2020 — 11 doctoral students and three MD-PhD Program students — who completed their first year in the program and are moving on to their research laboratory match.

  • UB Awards 277 Biomedical Science Degrees
    5/21/20

    Twenty-seven doctoral, 58 master’s and 192 baccalaureate candidates were eligible to receive degrees in biomedical science fields during the May 17 virtual commencement ceremony.

  • Papers Highlight Research on Antibiotic Biosynthesis
    10/23/19

    Research by Andrew M. Gulick, PhD, associate professor of structural biology, that solved the structure of two proteins that produce antibiotic agents is featured in papers in back-to-back months of Nature Communications.

  • Research Aims to Speed Up Drug Discovery Process
    10/2/19

    Thomas D. Grant, PhD, research assistant professor of structural biology, has been awarded a four-year, $1.33 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new computational tools to visualize and understand how drugs interact with proteins, with the ultimate aim of speeding up the drug discovery process.

  • Summer Research Projects Presented at Annual Event
    9/17/19

    Eighty-four student-scientists presented projects during the Ninth Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

  • Malkowski Studying Oral Bacterium in Periodontitis
    8/26/19

    Michael G. Malkowski, PhD, professor and chair of structural biology, is part of a research team using National Institutes of Health funding to study an oral bacterium strongly associated with periodontitis.

  • Vision Research Involves Use of Ultrafast Imaging
    4/30/19

    Thomas D. Grant, PhD, research assistant professor of structural biology, is co-principal investigator on a research project using ultrafast imaging technologies to study how vision occurs at the molecular level.

  • Student-Scientists Showcase Summer Research Projects
    8/29/18

    Seventy-five student-scientists presented projects during the Eighth Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

  • New Imaging Method Reveals How Particles Move in Solution
    3/9/18
    New research published in Nature Methods will dramatically improve how scientists “see inside” molecular structures in solution, allowing for much more precise ways to image data in various fields, from astronomy to drug discovery.