Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
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The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
was founded in 2008 by a gift from Drs. Henry Laufer
and Marsha Laufer. The Laufer Center is part of Stony Brook University. The center's current director is Dr. Ken A. Dill. Associate director is Dr. Carlos Simmerling
. Dr. David F. Green will head the multi-departmental graduate training program for the center. The 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.
was founded in 2008 by a gift from Drs. Henry Laufer
Henry Laufer
Henry B. Laufer is Vice President of Research at Renaissance Technologies.Laufer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1965, studying with Robert Gunning. He joined the mathematics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1971. His research focused on complex...
and Marsha Laufer. The Laufer Center is part of Stony Brook University. The center's current director is Dr. Ken A. Dill. Associate director is Dr. Carlos Simmerling
Carlos Simmerling
Carlos Simmerling is a full Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Simmerling received his Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and then his Doctorate in 1994 from the same institution...
. Dr. David F. Green will head the multi-departmental graduate training program for the center. The 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.