Faculty

Jessy Alexander, PhD
Medicine
Research Professor

Stylianos Andreadis, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Mouhamed Awayda
Physiology and Biophysics
Professor

Caroline Bass, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Professor

Ralph Benedict, PhD
Neurology
Professor

Niels Bergsland, PhD
Neurology
Assistant Professor

Arin Bhattacharjee, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor

Rebekah Charney, PhD
Biochemistry
Assistant Professor

Dahong Chen, PhD
Biochemistry
Assistant Professor

Stewart Clark, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Professor

Christopher Cohan, PhD
Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Thomas Covey, PhD
Neurology
Assistant Professor

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

David Dietz, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor; Chair

Sergio Dominguez-Lopez, Ph.D.
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Assistant Professor

Margarita Dubocovich, PhD, FASPET, FACNP
Pharmacology and Toxicology
SUNY Distinguished Professor

Michael Duffey, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Professor of Medicine

Michael Dwyer, III, PhD
Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics

Leonard Epstein, PhD
Pediatrics
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Division Chief, Behavioral Medicine

Michael Farkas, PhD
Ophthalmology
Associate Professor

Jian Feng, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
UB Distinguished Professor

Steven Fliesler, PhD
Ophthalmology
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor, Vice-Chair and Director of Research

Samir Haj-Dahmane, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor

Tracey Ignatowski, PhD
Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
Assistant Professor

Amanda Klein, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Professor

John Kolega, Ph.D.
Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director

Daniel Kosman, PhD
Biochemistry
SUNY Distinguished Professor

Sandra Kuhlman
Physiology and Biophysics
Associate Professor

John Leddy, MD, FACSM, FACP, FAMSSM
Orthopaedics
Clinical Professor

Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor; Vice Chair for Research

Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology
Professor

Garrett Neske, Ph.D.
Physiology and Biophysics
Assistant Professor

Pablo Paez, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor

Jinwoo Park, PhD
Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Associate Professor

Yungki Park, PhD
Biochemistry
Associate Professor

Mark Parker, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
Associate Professor

Sangita Patel, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology
Assistant Professor

Mikhail Pletnikov, M.D. Ph.D.
Physiology and Biophysics
Professor and Chair

Gabriela Popescu, PhD
Biochemistry
Professor

Feng Qin, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
Director of Biophysics Graduate Program

Sriganesh Ramachandra Rao, MS, PhD
Ophthalmology
Assistant Professor

Randall Rasmusson, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
Professor

Dheeraj Roy, Ph.D.
Physiology and Biophysics
Assistant Professor

Ferdinand Schweser, PhD
Neurology
Associate Professor

Roh-Yu Shen, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor

Daesung Shin, PhD
Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Assistant Professor

David Shucard, PhD, FAASM, FAPA
Neurology
Professor and Director, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences

Janet Shucard, PhD
Neurology
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology

Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, FAHA
Neurosurgery
Vice-Chairman and Professor of Neurosurgery

Fraser Sim, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor; Neuroscience Program Director

Malcolm Slaughter, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
Professor

John Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D.
Ophthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology

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

Panayotis Thanos, PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Senior Research Scientist

Jamal Williams, PhD
Psychiatry
Assistant Professor

Zhen Yan, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics
SUNY Distinguished Professor

Sarah Zhang, M.D.
Ophthalmology
Professor

Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD
Neurology
Professor of Neurology and Professor of Biomedical Informatics