The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology (Laufer Center) is a multidisciplinary venue where research from such fields as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and physics can come together and target medical and biological problems using both computation and experiment. The Laufer Center is part of

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

. The Center's founding and current director is Dr.

Ken A. Dill Kenneth Austin Dill (born 1947) is a biophysicist and chemist best known for his work in folding pathways of proteins. He is the director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University. He ...

. Other members are Associate Director Dr.

Carlos Simmerling Carlos Simmerling is a full professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is associate director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology. Simmerling received his Bachelor of Ar ...

,and Henry Laufer Endowed Professor Gábor Balázsi and affiliated faculty from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Ecology & Evolution and Computer Science at

, as well as from

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an
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Among the Laufer Center's goals is to enhance interdisciplinary education at Stony Brook University. Dr. Gábor Balázsi coordinates the flagship course of the Center
Physical and Quantitative Biology
which is offered each Fall through the Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering.

History

The center was founded in 2008 by a gift from Drs.

Henry Laufer Henry B. Laufer (born 1945) is an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. He served as the Vice President of Research at Renaissance Technologies. Early life Henry B. Laufer was born to a Jewish family in 1945. H ...

, Marsha Laufer and their family in memory of Louis and Beatrice Laufer. On May 7, 2012 the Laufer Center opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.{{Cite web , url=http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Laufer_Family_and_Dignitaries_Join_SBU_Officials_and_Faculty_to_Commemorate_Opening_of_New_Physical_and_Quantitative_Biology_Academic_and_Research_Center.shtml , title=press release about Opening Ceremony , access-date=2012-05-14 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513160020/http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Laufer_Family_and_Dignitaries_Join_SBU_Officials_and_Faculty_to_Commemorate_Opening_of_New_Physical_and_Quantitative_Biology_Academic_and_Research_Center.shtml , archive-date=2012-05-13 , url-status=dead

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