Bruce A. Holm, Ph.D.
Executive Director
New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences
Dr. Bruce A. Holm is the Executive Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences; and Senior Vice Provost and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Holm previously held the positions of Senior Associate Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Senior Associate Vice President for Health Affairs at UB. Holm received a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa in 1981. He then served as an NIH predoctoral fellow in Radiation Biology, Biophysics, and Pulmonary Medicine, and in 1987 received his MS and PhD in Toxicology and Pulmonary Medicine from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Perinatology at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo negotiations.
Dr. Holm’s research focuses on the biology of lung development and therapeutics for acute lung disease. He has served as a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology and as a guest editor of Clinics in Perinatology. He received a Research Career Award from the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in 1991, and has been principal investigator on numerous NIH, DOD, NASA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Markey Trust funded projects. He has published more than 200 papers, book chapters and abstracts on such topics as the biology of lung development, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and molecular therapeutics in acute lung injury. He holds several patents for lung surfactant replacement drugs currently on the market and has launched two therapeutics companies based on his work.
News
Takeuchi Named SUNY Distinguished
11/23/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "Esther S. Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor in Power Sources Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest rank in the SUNY system..." [Read On...]
Turning Research Into Practicality is Focus of Roswell Park Workshop
11/4/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "The daylong 'translational research workshop' brought academics and industry representatives together to tackle the difficulties and opportunities of commercializing medical research..." [Read On...]
UB Engineering Professor Honored at White House
10/08/2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - "President Obama honored Takeuchi for inventing the battery that powers many of the world's implanted medical devices, but he just as easily could have lauded her as living proof that the American dream still comes true..." [Read On...]
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