Faculty

UB Biologists Discover Enzyme Degrades Protein that Suppresses or Promotes Cancer: This is the first study to show that treatment of cultured cancer cells with chemotherapeutic drugs can cause destruction of the Wilms' tumor 1 by an enzyme called HtrA2/Omi," says Stefan Roberts, PhD, assistant professor of biological sciences.
Claude Welch: Claude E. Welch, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science - The responsibility to act when it comes to spreading and upholding human rights falls on everyone.
William Pelham: William E. Pelham Jr., UB Distinguished Professor in the departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, is one of the leading experts in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Sean Bennett: Predicting where soil erosion occurs—and thus how to prevent it—is a serious challenge. That’s why UB geographer Sean Bennett has constructed various systems to model it.
Vasiliki Neofotistos: "I'm interested in questions of power in societies, conflict resolution and policy making," says Neofotistos, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology.
Doreen Wackeroth: Doreen Wackeroth, associate professor of physics, used funding from the education and outreach portion of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to launch the Physics & Arts Summer Institute.