Troy Wood, PhD

Troy Wood was born February 11, 1967, in Elkhart, Indiana, and attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington where he majored in chemistry and received a B.S. degree (Honors) in 1989.  Dr. Wood did his Ph.D. research with Professor Alan G. Marshall at the Ohio State University and graduated in 1993.  He then spent two years as a postdoc at Cornell University under the direction of Professor Fred W. McLafferty.  In 1995, Dr. Wood became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo.

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In 2000, Dr. Wood founded Nanogenesys, Inc. to develop and commercialize conductive polymer-coated nanoelectrospray emitters; he currently serves as Vice-President.  He was promoted to Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo in 2001.  Dr. Wood also has adjunct appointments at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biophyiscs and Biochemistry and theDepartment of Structural Biology at the University at Buffalo.  He has co-authored more than 90 papers, two patents, and a textbook Analytical Chemistry.  He was selected by students to be a faculty commencement speaker at UB in 2018.  He resides in Kenmore, NY, with his family.  In 2004, he spent a sabbatical on the island of Sardinia, Italy, at the University of Sassari with endocrinologist Dr. Giuseppe Fanciulli in the Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, and in 2020, he spent his sabbatical with mass spectrometrist Professor Touradj Solouki in the Department of Chemistry at Baylor University.