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Zuiru Lin (left), a medicinal chemistry major, works in the lab of UB Distinguished Professor Janet Morrow (right). They are photographed in a lab in the Natural Sciences Complex in July 2019 in connection with the Boldly Buffalo Campaign Women in Sciences and Engineering (WiSE) story. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

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Ciprian Ionita

Dr. Ionita is assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery and director of the Endovascular Devices and Imaging lab at UB's Canon Stroke & Vascular Research Center. His research focuses on improvement of endovascular image guided interventions and encompasses three major components: medical imaging, computer programming and endovascular device development. 

 

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  • Barbara Rita Alevriadou

    Biomedical Engineering

    Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Research Lab; Signal

  • Praveen Arany

    Oral Biology

    Low dose Biophotonics Therapy; Stem cells in regenerative medicine; TGF beta Biology

  • Joe Balthasar

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Utilization of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analyses and mathematical modeling to guide the discovery and development of new immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmunity

  • Sathy Balu Iyer

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Immunotherapy - lipid mediated tolerance strategies to overcome unwanted immune responses (protein and antibody therapeutics, allergies, autoimmune conditions and gene therapy). Protein delivery and immunotherapy -  interdisciplinary approach of biophysics/bioengineering, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic and immunology. Physicochemical and analytical methods of assessing protein structure, function, and stability in developing improved dosage forms.

  • Glenna Bett

    Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Biomedical Imaging; Cardiac pharmacology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Stem Cells; Translational Research

  • Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee

    Computer Science and Engineering

    Computer vision; machine learning; multimodal data analytics; pattern recognition; large-scale visual search and mining; big data analytics

  • Sabrina Casucci

    Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Health information technology and informatics, healthcare systems modeling, design and evaluation of healthcare interventions on patient and organizational outcomes, process and product quality improvement, simulation modeling and applications

  • Lora Cavuoto

    Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Physical ergonomics, biomechanics, occupational safety and health, workplace wellness, designing workplace accommodations for the obese and older populations

  • Huei-Yen "Winnie" Chen

    Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Human-Machine Interactions, Cognitive Engineering, Driver Behavior and Safety, Human Factors in Healthcare

  • Chong Cheng

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Biodegradable functional polymers and nanostructures, new drug delivery systems, synthetic materials for tissue engineering

  • Jason M. Davies.

    Jason M. Davies

    Neurosurgery

    Bioinformatics tools to advance personalized medicine; improve quantity and quality of data for medical research; lower barriers to entry for clinicians; advanced machine learning and data analytic methods

  • Meg Deangelis

    Ophthalmology

    Ascertainment and recruitment of human populations, neuroscience, genetics, ophthalmology, epidemiology, statistical genetics and molecular biology.

  • Mark Ehrensberger

    Biomedical Engineering

    Applied orthopedic biomechanics, Corrosion and biocompatibility of metallic orthopedic biomaterials

  • Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    To develop multiscale mathematical and computational models to enhance understanding of the mechanisms governing tissue remodeling and damage as a result of diseases and infections and to simulate the treatment of those conditions to improve human health.

  • Johannes Hachmann

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Computational chemistry and materials science; virtual high-throughput and Big Data; machine learning; electronic structure theory and methods; quantum effects in catalysis and materials; rational design

  • Emily Hammond

    Engineering Education

    Investigation of low-dose computed tomography protocols and their effect on quantitative lung assessment and imaging processing algorithm development for longitudinal analysis of solid tumors.

  • Susan Zonglu Hua

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Bioengineering; Materials

  • Ciprian Ionita

    Biomedical Engineering

    Biomedical Imaging; Cardiovascular Disease; Diagnostic Radiology; Image Processing and Analysis; Imaging Informatics; Neurosurgery; Radiological Physics; Vascular and Interventional Radiology; Vision science

  • Amy Jacobs.

    Amy Jacobs

    Microbiology and Immunology

    Runs BSL3 Lab Facility; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology

  • Jiyeon Kang

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Robotics, Prosthetic Devices, Cable-Actuated Mechanisms, Intelligent Wheelchairs

  • Eleni A. Kyriakidou

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticle synthesis and surface science, and the application of such catalysts to environmental processes

  • Haiqing Lin

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Novel membrane materials for CO₂ capture from flue gas and syngas; antifouling membranes for water purification; understanding of polymer structure/property correlations in thin films

  • Jon Lovell

    Biomedical Engineering

    Development of nanomedicine approaches to meet unmet needs in treating, diagnosing or preventing disease; Nanomedicine; Phototherapy

  • Thmoas Melendy.

    Thomas Melendy

    Microbiology and Immunology

    DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Drug Discovery; Emergent Pathogens; Genome Integrity; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Virology

  • Hui Meng

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Biomedical engineering; hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics; advanced laser flow diagnostics; computational fluid dynamics

  • Viviana Monje-Galvan

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    To characterize lipid-lipid and lipid-protein interactions that are relevant for lipid regulation and cell signaling processes in cancer and liver disease

  • Janet Morrow.

    Janet Morrow

    Chemistry

    Bioinorganic chemistry: Magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents based on iron, cobalt or nickel; bimodal (fluorescent) probes; ligand synthesis, self-assembled multinuclear iron complexes for imaging and drug delivery; yeast cell labeling with inorganic complexes

  • Timothy Murphy.

    Timothy Murphy

    Medicine

    Bacterial infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis; Microbial pathogenesis within the respiratory tract; Moraxella catarrhalis pathogenesis; Vaccine development

  • Ifeoma Nwogu

    Computer Science and Engineering

    Modeling and Prediction of Human Behavior

  • Kwang Oh

    Electrical Engineering

    LOC (lab-on-a-chip); MicroTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems); BioMEMS (Bio Micro Electro Mechanical Systems); SANS (Sample-to-Answer Nano/microfluidic Systems); nanobiosensors for bio/chemical/environmental applications; world-to-chip interfacing and packaging; single cell manipulation, sorting, and detection; microvalves; micropumps; microfluidic

  • James M. O’Donell

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Relationship between the neurochemical and behavioral effects of drugs, primarily those used to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses. This work includes the study of noradrenergic mechanisms in the actions of antidepressant drugs and of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases as potential targets for novel antidepressant, anxiolytic, and memory‐enhancing drugs.

  • Jun Qu

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    High-resolution and large-scale expression profiling of pathological proteomes;

  • Randall Rasmusson

    Physiology and Biophysics

    Biomedical Engineering; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Neuroscience; Stem Cells

  • Javid Rzayev

    Chemistry

    Polymer and organic materials chemistry: synthesis of multicomponent polymers, self-assembly and nanomaterials, chemical upcycling of polymers

  • Ram Samudrala

    Biomedical Informatics

    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

  • Adnan Siddiqui

    Neurosurgery

    Neurological Surgery, Neuroradiology, Aneurysm, Stroke, Thrombectomy, Cancer, Neurovascular Imaging, Neurovascular Surgery, Vascular

  • Animesh A. Sinha.

    Animesh A. Sinha

    Dermatology

    Autoimmunity; Dermatology; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology

  • Robert M. Straubinger.

    Robert M. Straubinger

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Biophysical investigations of the pharmaceutical properties of drug carrier complexes; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis to probe mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of drug carriers; proteomic analysis based on liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry; drug-mediated interdiction of specific of tumor-stromal interactions to modulate tumor vascular permeability and antibody/drug carrier deposition in tumors

  • Letitia Thomas

    Engineering and Applied Sciences

    STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media

  • Thomas Thundat

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Novel physical, chemical, and biological detection using micro and nano mechanical sensors and electrical power delivery using the single wire concept

  • Albert Titus

    Biomedical Engineering

    Bio-Inspired Analog Visual Systems; Bioinstrumentation; Integrated Sensors; Neuromorphic Visual Processing Systems

  • Marina Tsianou

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Molecular recognition, crystallization, self-assembly, interfacial phenomena, biomimetics, formulations. Materials: polymers, surfactants, biomaterials, supramolecules, dyes, colloidal particles, crystals, cosolvents. Techniques: rheology, small-angle X-ray (SAXS) and neutron (SANS) scattering, static and dynamic light scattering, UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, conductivity, vapor pressure osmometry (VPO), surface free energy, electron spectroscopy (ESCA), atomic force microscopy (AFM). 

  • Yun Wu

    Biomedical Engineering

    Engineering principles and design concepts to develop novel therapeutics and diagnostics (theranostics) for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other deadly diseases.

  • Jun Xia

    Biomedical Engineering

    Optical and ultrasonic imaging techniques to meet needs in cancer and neurological research; Sensors, Medical Imaging, Photoacoustics

  • Leslie (Lei) Ying

    biomedical engineering

    Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

  • Joseph Zambon

    Periodontics and Endodontics

    Microbiology, Oral Biology, Periodontics

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