The chemical research community of the Long Island region is greater than the Stony Brook Chemistry Department alone. There are numerous faculty members in other departments and schools of the university whose interests involve chemistry in a wide variety of ways.

For example:

The Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery (ICB&DD), based in the Chemistry Department, offers students many opportunities to be involved in collaborative research efforts between chemists, biochemists, biologists, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, and physicians. Major research initiatives are focused on designing new therapeutics for Y. pestis (plague), M. tuberculosis (TB), and cancer.

Center for Environmental Molecular Sciences (CEMS) was established to address complex environmental problems that affect society and continues to involve more and more students from chemistry, working on both the chemistry of natural systems and on the design of new materials for more effective remediation strategies.

The Center for Structural Biology (CSB) is housed in the Centers for Molecular Medicine. The research activities of the CSB revolve around three major biophysical approaches for studying the structure and dynamics of complex biological macromolecules: NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and computer simulation. The faculty in the CSB have home departments in Chemistry, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, and Pharmacology, and mentor graduate students from the Chemistry Graduate Program, as well as other graduate programs in the life sciences.

The superb professional staff of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, located 15 miles east of campus, enjoys a close relationship with the Chemistry Department. Many continuing research projects are conducted jointly by the two laboratories.

In 2007, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s new Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) will officially open in a new building. The CFN will provide university researchers with state-of-the-art facilities for the study of nanomaterials - materials the size of a few billionths of a meter. Many of these instruments are currently coming on line and research opportunities for Stony Brook graduate students in this field are growing every year. The goal of the CFN is to provide the basis for future research and technology, leading to faster computers, improved solar energy conversion and more efficient catalysis of chemical reactions.

The Center for Biotechnology supports research activities in the Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology departments, as well as in the Medical and Dental schools.

Cooperative research arrangements may also be made with the nearby Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Last Update: 2005-02-09
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