Dr. Genco comes to the University at Buffalo from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. Earlier in her tenure at Tufts, she was chair of the department of immunology in the School of Medicine. She has also taught at Boston University, as well as the Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory University, both located in Atlanta, Georgia.
A nationally recognized microbiologist and immunologist, Dr. Genco conducts research at the intersection of infectious diseases, epidemiology, biomedical engineering, and public health. She focuses her work on chronic inflammation and the role of the microbiome in systemic inflammatory diseases. At Tufts, she held the Arthur E. Spiller, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Genetics.
