Prof. Sherry Chemler has been selected to receive the UB Distinguished Professor Award. This award recognizes full professors who have achieved true distinction and who are recognized as national and international leaders in their fields.
Prof. Chris Li has received the 2025-2026 UB Exceptional Scholar Young Investigator Award. This award celebrates the superior achievement of a junior faculty member in their field of study, who has distinguished themselves as an up-and-coming scholar.
As part of a 5-year, $5 mil. grant from NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, UB will lead a group of other colleges and universities dedicated to strengthening New York's leadership in scientific initiatives across the broader Great Lakes basin.
David Heppner, Jere Solo Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named an associate editor of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Journal of Medicinal chemistry - regarded as the flagship journal for drug discovery research worldwide.
Human cancer cell cultures in the lab of David Heppner. Heppner's team recently found that faster binding for targeted covalent inhibitor drugs was linked to greater potency, but only to a certain point
