UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Buffalo Niagara has nearly 30 colleges and universities that produce over 20,000 new graduates each year. The region's educational institutions provide a wide variety of programs in the life sciences that yield more than 800 life sciences graduates annually. In fact, Buffalo ranks 4th in the nation for number of annual research and development degrees. Additionally, the region has been able to recruit prominent life sciences researchers from all over the country and the world due to the quality of the academic and research activities.
Developing Life Sciences Talent
One of the goals of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences (CoE) is to act as an academic resource to educate scientists, engineers and researchers in critical science and technology areas pertaining to bioinformatics and life sciences. The University at Buffalo, as a comprehensive research university and lead institution in the CoE, is uniquely qualified to develop and offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the interdisciplinary areas at the heart of life sciences.
The University at Buffalo, in tandem with expertise from the other CoE research partners at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, has established new bachelors and masters degree programs to support the CoE's educational mission. In addition to more traditional areas of study in biological sciences, these new programs include:
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Medical Informatics
- Pharmacometrics
- Biophotonics
- Computational Chemistry
- Molecular Chemistry
- Structural Biology
- Ontology
Information Management & Information Technology Support Life Sciences
The UB School of Informatics has developed a Master of Arts in Informatics designed to prepare students for careers in designing and managing information systems. Additionally, the Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) offer academic training programs in life sciences fields leading to masters and doctoral degrees.
In line with the high performance computing focus of the CoE, the Center for Computational Research (CCR) helped establish an Advanced (Graduate) Certificate in Computational Science at UB, bringing together interested teachers from five departments (Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Physics. Outside of UB, CCR has fostered relationships with four-year SUNY colleges at Geneseo and Brockport, as well as private four-year colleges such as Canisius College and Niagara University who have synergistic interests in developing computational science talent for high-tech areas like life sciences.
Preparation for Industry
In addition to these science and technology programs, short-term training/certificate programs are under development that will cater to regional industrial needs. Similarly, the UB School of Management launched a new biotechnology concentration to grow entrepreneurial and business talent to assist in the commercialization of life sciences technologies.
To learn more about these and other undergraduate and graduate programs and to find contact information for specific programs, click here.
News
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...]
Life Science Careers Touted: UB leads consortium promoting variety of job possibilities in Western New York
10/6/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "A program designed to bring careers in the life sciences within reach of more Western New York job-seekers was rolled out Tuesday by a consortium of agencies and businesses led by two branches of the University at Buffalo. The program is called iSciWNY... " [Read On...]
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Events
November 19 - "Vybion: The Successful Morphing of a Contract Research Organization into a Therapeutics Company" featuring Lee Henderson, CEO, Vybion Inc. Click here for more information.
December 10 - "The Passport of a Life Sciences Entrepreneur," featuring Shreefel Mehta, Ph.D., MBA. Click here for more information.
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