2023
Laufer Center Researchers awarded Biomedical Sciences Innovation Funds from Stony Brook University
Sarah Gunasekera, URECA Researcher of the Month (and 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarship)
Rethinking the Protein Inhibitor Approach to Cancer Therapy
The role of theory in cell biology
Yiming Wan is awarded the 2023 President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Student
Good Chemistry: Recent Grad Begins a Career in Science
Biology's unsolved chicken-or-egg problem: Where did life come from?
Good Chemistry: Recent Grad Begins a Career in Science
Ivet Bahar Named Director of Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
2022
Computer Simulations of Proteins Help Unravel Why Chemotherapy Resistance Occurs
Targeting "Cell Clustering" by Gene Deletion Reduces Drug Resistance
Successful NIH R35 award renewal for Dr. Gabor Balazsi
Carlos Simmerling: For the Love of Chemistry
2021
Accidental BNL find now key building block for two COVID-19 vaccines
Meet Eric Brouzes a finalist for the 2021 Discovery Prize
2020
Laufer Center projects allocated time on Frontera super computer
Carlos Simmerling wins the 2020 Gordon Bell Special Prize (the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing)
Carlos Simmerling recipient of two RCSA's COVID-19 initiative awards
Podcast with Gabor Balazsi on Cancer-Controlling Gene Circuits: Update on Cancer Cure Research
Laufer Center Leverages Computing to Fight Coronavirus
Computer Models That Could Speed Coronavirus Drugs
Low-Carb Diet Could Boost Brain Health, Study Finds
SBU Team Awarded $4.2 Million Grant to Fight Prostate Cancer
2019
Study Shows Evolution Turns Genes Back On to Regain Function
Study Sheds Light on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease
New assistant professor examines drug resistance through physics and biology
Research Suggests New Ways of Overcoming Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs
University Launches Cutting-Edge Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
Ken Dill awarded the 2019 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics
Luca Agozzino and Evan Philip: Student Success Stories
Markus Seeliger studies cellular switch binding
Steven Skiena uses AI to find faculty
2018
Ken Dill Awarded Max Delbruck Prize
Synthetic “Gene Thermometers” Show How Cells Endure Heat or Cold
Festschrift Issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B for Ken
2017
Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests
Kellon Belfon Finds His Way from Grenada to Prestigious Fellowship
Modeling Protein Interactions Critical to Understanding Disease now Simplified With Computer Server
2016
Ken Dill explains his research
Physics Discovery Could Improve Solar Cells
Is the notion of a cure for cancer too simplistic?
High-Speed Protein Modeling Could Accelerate Drug Development
Study Reveals Proteins Most Associated With Aging
2015
New Technology Tracks Cell Lineage To Watch Evolution at Work
Dill & Balazsi, Honored at SBU event
2014
Discovery of Compound May Open New Road to Diabetes Treatment
Two SBU Professors Elected into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Laufer Center researchers look into new ways of exploring evolution
2013
Stony Brook Researchers Receive $3.8 Million NIH Grant to Develop Drugs for Pain, Inflammation
Laufer Center Researchers Find Surprising Similarities Between Genetic and Computer Codes
2012
Laufer Center Researchers Look Back on Scientific Advances Made as a Result of a 50-Year Old Puzzle
LC Postdoc Alberto Perez is September Stony Brook Postdoc-of-the-Month
Titan Supercomputer Hours Awarded to Collaborative Protein Project
Study Finds Parasitic Plants Steal Nutrients and Genes from Their Hosts
Opening of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Reaping Knowledge from a Deluge of Data
Department of Energy Funds a Knowledgebase of Plant and Microbial Life