Special Call-In Show on WBFO to Explore Exciting Research into Bioinformatics

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, will look the field of bioinformatics and UB's role in it as part of a special local version of "Science Friday" that will air at 3 p.m. on June 1.

The rapid progress in mapping the human genome has many researchers predicting that biology will be the foremost science in the 21st century, and Gov. George Pataki has proposed creating at UB a Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

The call-in show will look at what this mean to the local economy, as well as the implications for curing diseases.

Program guests will includes Bruce Holm, UB senior associate vice president for health affairs; George DeTitta, executive director and chief operating officer at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and professor and chair in the Department of Structural Biology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Norma Nowak, director of the DNA Microarray Facility operated by Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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