Norma Nowak
Norma Nowak has been named the executive director of the University at Buffalo’s Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. In addition to her role at the center, Nowak is a professor of biochemistry at UB, as well as the founder and CSO of Empire Genomics , a molecular diagnostics company focused on personalized medicine. In the past, she served as director of the Genomics Shared Resource, a collaborative research lab shared by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.