Laychock to Direct Medical School's Research Efforts

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Suzanne G. Laychock, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed senior associate dean for research and biomedical education at the medical school.

Laychock, a member of the UB faculty since 1989, is an accomplished researcher with more than 80 publications. In addition to serving as associate chair of her department since 1995, she was co-director of UB's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.

She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and earned a doctorate in pharmacology from the Medical College of Virginia. In 1990, she was selected as the outstanding STAR alumnus at the medical college.

Laychock serves as associate editor of the journal Lipids and was associate editor of Endocrine Research from 1992-2001. She also has served as field editor for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and on the editorial board of Diabetes.

Her research into endocrine pharmacology with an emphasis on the cellular mechanisms regulating insulin secretion has been funded since 1979. She is a member of several professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Endocrine Society.

Laychock lives in East Amherst.