A major grant from the Oishei Foundation will expand bioinformatics and computational biology at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
A UB biochemist in UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and his colleagues have received $3.5 million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board to establish a Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center.
CEO Michael Dell was recently in Buffalo to announce the company’s support for the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, which will give UB and Buffalo a foothold in the booming medical information technology field.
Lawrence Wrabetz, MD, a highly regarded neuroscientist, has been appointed director of the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute at the UB. His spouse and co-investigator, Laura Feltri, MD, also will join faculty.
