Faculty

Our faculty-scientists engage graduate and doctoral students in cutting-edge research across diverse disciplines, directing approximately $20 million in research funding annually.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Caroline Bass, PhD
Associate Professor

Anna Blumental-Perry
Assistant Professor

Michael Buck, PhD
Professor and Director Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics

Rebekah Charney, PhD
Assistant Professor

Margaret DeAngelis, M.S., Ph.D
Endowed Chair Professor Department of Ophthalmology

Arthur Edelman, PhD
Associate Professor

Lee Ann Garrett-Sinha, PhD
Professor

Marc Halfon, PhD
Professor

Keith Kirkwood
Professor

Thomas Melendy, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Biochemistry

Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD
Professor

Norma Nowak, PhD
Professor

Mark O‘Brian, PhD
Professor and Chair

Pablo Paez, PhD
Associate Professor

Yungki Park, PhD
Associate Professor

Laurie Read, PhD
Professor

Stanley Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D.
UB Distinguished Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics; Division Chief; Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology

Fraser Sim, PhD
Professor; Neuroscience Program Director

Animesh Sinha, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology

Satrajit Sinha, PhD
Professor

Edward Snell

Michal Stachowiak, PhD
Professor, Director Molec. and Structural Neurobiol. Gene Therapy Prog. Director Stem Cell SCEF

Yijun Sun, PhD
Professor of Bioinformatics

Jennifer Surtees, PhD
Professor

Mark Sutton, PhD
Professor

Kinga Szigeti, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of the Alzheimer‘s Disease and Memory Disorders Center

Mary Taub, Ph.D.
Professor

Jamal Williams, PhD
Assistant Professor

Gil Wolfe, MD, FAAN
Professor and Chairman; Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of Neurology; State University of New York Distinguished Professor; Chief of Service for Neurology

Rabi Yacoub, MD
Associate Professor

Jesse Slone, PhD
Research Assistant Professor & Principal Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics

Donald Yergeau, PhD

Associate Director of Genomic Technologies, University at Buffalo Genomics and Bioinformatics Core

Jonathan Bard, PhD

Associate Director, UB Genomics and Bioinformatics Core, Research Assistant Professor HS, UB Biochemistry Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Paul Cullen, PhD
Profesor

Denise Ferkey, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Biological Sciences

Omer Gokcumen, PhD
Associate Professor

Shermali Gunawardena, PhD
Associate Professor

Jae Lee, PhD
Professor

Soo-Kyung Lee, PhD
Empire Innovation Professor, Om P. Bahl Endowed Professor

Vincent Lynch, PhD
Associate Professor

Gail M. Seigel, PhD
Research Associate Professor

Wenjun Zheng, PhD
Professor

School of Dental Medicine

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Stylianos Andreadis, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor and
Director, Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine (SCiRM) Training Program

Sheldon Park, PhD
Associate Professor

Edward Snell, PhD
Professor; Director of BioXFEL;
Senior Scientist, CEO of Hauptman-Woodward Medical Institute

Aidong Zhang, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Javier G. Blanco, PhD
Professor

Jun Qu, PhD
Professor

Brian T. Tsuji, PharmD
Professor and Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Rachael Hageman Blair, PhD
Associate Professor

Chang-Xing Ma, PhD
Associate Professor, Co-Director, MPH Biostatistics Concentration

Jeffrey Miecznikowski, PhD
Associate Professor

Heather Ochs-Balcom
Associate Professor; 
Director of Graduate Studies, MPH Program;
Director, MPH Concentration in Epidemiology

Xuefeng Ren, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, MPH Concentration in Environmental Health

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD
Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Christine Ambrosone, PhD
Professor
Chair,  Department of Cancer Prevention and Control

AnneMarie Block, PhD, FACMG
Associate Professor 

Peter Demant, MD, PhD
Professor

Irwin Gelman, PhD
Director of Research Integration and Distinguished Professor

Michael Higgins, PhD
Associate Professor

Dae-Kyum Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor

Tao Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Kent Nastiuk, PhD
Assistant Professor

Joyce Ohm, PhD
Associate Professor 
Chair of Cancer Genetics and Genomics

Spencer Rosario, PhD
Assistant Professor

Song Yao, MD, PhD
Professor

Y. Eugene Yu, PhD
Professor

Jianmin Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor