Hauptman-Woodward is 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 is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Its campus spans 25 acres on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. For more than a century, physician-scientists at Roswell Park have made fundamental contributions to reduce the cancer burden and to help set the national standards for cancer care, research and education.

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.