Biophysical Sciences

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
124 Sherman Hall
South Campus
Buffalo, NY 14214-3078

Phone: 716.829.2738
Fax: 716.829.2344
Email: pgy-bph@buffalo.edu
Web: www.smbs.buffalo.edu/phb/

Undergraduate Catalog: http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/bph.shtml

About Biophysical Sciences at UB

Biophysics programs are in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. The biophysical sciences are a group of sub-disciplines in the biological sciences that apply the principles of physics and physical chemistry to the analysis of life processes at a quantitative and mechanistic level.

Biophysicists study the physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, material transport across cell membranes, and related phenomena. They conduct research to investigate dynamics in such areas as seeing, hearing and motility as well as molecular structures; signal transduction and transmission in nerves and muscles; cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions; determination of the structures of biological macromolecules; and tissues by using various spectroscopy methods, microscopic and medical imaging techniques.

Degrees Offered

Undergraduate: BS
Concentrations: BS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Graduate: MS, PhD