Faculty Profiles
Specialty/Research Focus: Epigenetics; Genomics and proteomics; Transcriptomics; Translational Research; Oncology; Preclinical Research
Arany, Praveen
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Biomaterials; Biomedical Engineering; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Gene Expression; Histology; Clinical Research; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Multimodal Imaging Technology; Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology; Oral Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells; Translational Research; Molecular diagnostics; Oral Biology; Oral Pathology; Surgery - Burn; Technology; Tissue Engineering; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biomedical Engineering; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Arrhythmias; Electrophysiology; Cardiac Electrophysiology - Clinical; Cardiovascular Disease; Transcriptomics; Translational Research; Metabolic Syndrome; Obesity; Sex Differences
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Translational Research; Urinary Tract Infection
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell Cycle; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Mitochondria; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell Cycle; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Computational Biology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Drug Discovery; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Signal Transduction; Transcriptomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral pharmacology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Drug abuse
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene Expression; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction; Pathophysiology
Blumental-Perry, Anna
Assistant Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Protein Folding; Protein Function and Structure; RNA; Stem Cells; Pulmonary
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Retroviruses; RNA; Translational Research; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Mitochondria; Translational Research; Vaccine Development
Specialty/Research Focus: Metalloenzymes; Microbial Pathogenesis; Protein Function and Structure; Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Stem Cells; Team Science; Transcription - Gene; Transcription and Translation; Transcription Factors
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Stem Cells; Transcription Factors; Transcriptomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Retina – retinal disease and therapy; Transcriptomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Neuroscience
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Electrophysiology; Biostatistics; Clinical Neurophysiology; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Multiple Sclerosis; Neurology; Neuropsychology; Psychology
Diaz, Patricia
Sunstar Robert J. Genco Endowed Chair, Empire Innovation Professor of Oral Biology, Director UB Microbiome Center
Specialty/Research Focus: Microbiology; Oral Biology; Oral Biology; Periodontics
Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Biomedical Ontology; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Ageing; Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavioral pharmacology; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Image Processing and Analysis; Mitochondria; Neurobiology; Neuroimaging Analysis; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Pain; Pathophysiology; Toxicology; Transcriptomics; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biomedical Image Analysis; Biomedical Imaging; Digital Pathology; Image Analysis; Quantitative Histology
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Neuropharmacology; Drug Design; Drug Targeting; Signal Transduction
Elkin, Peter
MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM
Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Professor of Internal Medicine
Specialty/Research Focus: Metalloenzymes; Protein Function and Structure; Vitamins and Trace Nutrients
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Clinical Informatics; Computational Biology; Computational Chemistry; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Abuse; Drug Design; Drug Discovery; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Proteomics; Structural Biology; Team Science; Transcriptomics; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; RNA; Stem Cells; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Neurobiology; Protein Folding; Signal Transduction; Toxicology; Transcription and Translation; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neurology; Pathophysiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Informatics; Anatomic Pathology; Clinical Informatics; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Health Disparities Research; Dermatopathology - Dermatology; Public Health; Public Health Informatics; Translational Research; Social Determinants of Health
Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Computational Drug Discovery; Protein Function and Structure
Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Metalloenzymes; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Protein Function and Structure; Structural Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Electrophysiology; Ethanol Pharmacology; Imaging In Vivo; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Lipid Homeostasis; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Computational Biology; Developmental Biology; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction; Transcription - Gene; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Informatics; Clinical Informatics; Pediatric Hospitalist
Specialty/Research Focus: Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Cancer Treatment and Prevention; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Pathophysiology; Protein Function and Structure; Transcription - Gene; Transcription and Translation; Transcription Factors; Pathophysiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Bioinformatics; Genome-wide Screening; Metabolism; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Genomics; Infectious Diseases; Mass Spectrometry
Hunter, Ryan
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Computational Biology; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular genetics; Transcriptomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Neuroimmunology
Ikonomou, Laertis
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Progenitor Cells; Stem Cells; Transcription Factors; Oral Biology
Kauffman, Anne Kathryn
Assistant Professor
Kay, Jason
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Image Processing and Analysis; Immunology; Inflammation; Lipid Homeostasis; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Oral Biology; Signal Transduction; Oral Biology
Kirkwood, Keith
Senior Associate Dean for Research Centennial Endowed Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Cell Metabolism; Immunology; Inflammation; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Oral Biology; Transcription - Gene; Transcription and Translation; Transcriptomics; Periodontics
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Electrophysiology; Metabolism; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Pain; Pharmacotherapy
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Oral Biology; Oral Pathology; Oral/Maxillofacial Pathology
Kuhlman, Sandra
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Computational Biology; Imaging In Vivo; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuroscience; Schizophrenia; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Metalloenzymes; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Models - cell and animal; Molecular Basis of Disease; Oral Biology; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: RNA; Stem Cells; Transcription and Translation; Transcriptomics; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Histology; Models - cell and animal; Molecular Basis of Disease; Oral Biology; Transcription Factors; Transcriptomics; Transgenic organisms
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Neurobiology; Drug abuse
Specialty/Research Focus: Biophysical Modeling; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Image Processing and Analysis; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Protein Function and Structure
Specialty/Research Focus: Metalloenzymes; Protein Function and Structure
Specialty/Research Focus: Drug Discovery; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Proteins; Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Education
Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Drug Discovery; Emergent Pathogens; Genome Integrity; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Virology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Transcription Factors; Transcriptomics; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Electrophysiology; Imaging In Vivo; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Parkinson’s disease; Schizophrenia; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular genetics
Specialty/Research Focus: Developmental Biology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Myelin Diseases; Neurobiology; Neuroscience
Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; RNA; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Metabolism; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Signal Transduction
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Neurobiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Transgenic organisms; Vision science
Specialty/Research Focus: Membrane Proteins; Protein Function and Structure; Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene Expression; Metalloenzymes; Mitochondria; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Protein Function and Structure; RNA; Structural Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Brain Research; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Neurodegenerative disorders
Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Pain Management
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Biomedical Imaging; Cell Metabolism; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Developmental Biology; Inflammation; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Lipid Homeostasis; Lysosomal Storage Diseases; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Pathophysiology; Protein Function and Structure; Retina – retinal disease and therapy; Team Science; Transgenic organisms; Translational Research; Vision science; Genetics; Retinopathy
Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Romano, Rose-Anne
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Neurobiology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Translational Research
Ruhl, Stefan
Professor and Department Chair
Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Pediatric Dentistry; Periodontics
Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Computational Chemistry; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Nanotechnology; Protein Folding; Protein Function and Structure; Proteomics; Structural Biology; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Cell growth, differentiation and development; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells; Transcription Factors
Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Imaging; Biometal Imaging; Brain Iron Homeostasis; Image Processing and Analysis; Inverse Imaging Problems; MRI Methodology; Neuroimaging Analysis; Disease Progression Modeling; Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping; Multiple Sclerosis
Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Electrophysiology; Ethanol Pharmacology; Glia - Physiology & Pathophysiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuroscience
Specialty/Research Focus: Glia - Physiology & Pathophysiology; Lysosomal Storage Diseases; Myelin Diseases; Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Specialty/Research Focus: Myelin Diseases; Neuroscience; Stem Cells; Neurodegenerative disorders
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Transgenic organisms; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Imaging In Vivo; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Membrane Biophysics; Metalloenzymes; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Multimodal Imaging Technology; Nanoparticles; Protein Folding; Retina – retinal disease and therapy; RNA; Transcription and Translation; Vision science; Gene Delivery; Gene Therapy; Molecular diagnostics; Neurodegenerative disorders; Ophthalmology; Pathophysiology; Pediatric Ophthalmology; Retina
Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Computational Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell Cycle; Community Based Participatory Research; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Genome Integrity; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Public Health; Team Science; Viral Pathogenesis
Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Gene Expression; Genome Integrity; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction
Tsuji, Brian
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FIDSA
Professor; Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Sciences; Edelman Endowed Chair in Experimental Therapeutics; Division Head, Division of Clinical and Translational Therapeutics
Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Imaging; Aneurysms – Intracranial; Biomedical Imaging; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Gene Sequencing; Cancer Chemotherapy; Cardiovascular Disease; Cerebrovascular (Stroke); Clinical Research; Quantitative Histology; RNA; Transcription and Translation; Transcriptomics; Hematology; Hemostasis / Thrombosis; Inflammation; Molecular diagnostics; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Stroke; Surgery - Vascular; Translational Research; Vascular and Interventional Radiology; Vascular Malformations
Vecchio, Alex
Assistant Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Computational Biology; Biophysics; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Proteins; Molecular Basis of Disease; Protein Engineering; Protein Function and Structure; Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography; Protein Therapeutics; Targeted Drug Delivery
Visser, Michelle
Associate Professor
Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Immunology; Inflammation; Microbiology; Oral Biology; Oral Biology
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cardiac pharmacology; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Inflammation; Pathophysiology; Stem Cells; Translational imaging; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Community Health Research; Epigenetics; Genome-wide Screening; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Transcriptomics
Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease
Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Immunology; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Internal Medicine; Nephrology
Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Schizophrenia; Signal Transduction; Transcriptomics; Translational Research; Neurodegenerative disorders; Pathophysiology
Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Protein Folding; Signal Transduction; Vision science; Ophthalmology; Retina
