Office of the Vice President for Research

Gail Sorem Habicht, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Professor of Pathology

Prof. Habicht has served as Vice President for Research since 1997. During that time external research support has grown from approximately $90M per year to more than $160M. She has overseen the opening of the Centers for Molecular Medicine, housing an HHMI Investigator, a Program Project Grant in Infectious Diseases and the Center for Structural Biology. Prior to her tenure in this office she served as Associate Provost responsible for the process of evaluation of academic departments by external review teams as well as space assignments and other matters at the interface of the academic mission and facilities. She continues to be an active participant in Department of Pathology teaching of graduate and medical students. Her research interests center on cellular immunology, the evolution of cytokines and the pathogenesis of tick-borne diseases, especially Lyme disease; she has authored 90 refereed or invited publications. Prof. Habicht serves on the board of the Long Island High Technology Incubator, Inc. (LIHTI), an independent not for profit corporation that manages a 72,000 s.f. facility on campus, the advisory committees for the Stony Brook Software Incubator, a partnership with Computer Associates, and the Stony Brook Incubator at Calverton, near Brookhaven National Laboratory, specializing in start-ups and young ventures in aquaculture, agriculture and environmental technologies as befits its rural location at the gateway to Long Island's East End. She earned the B.S. and Ph.D. in Physiology at Stanford University and performed postdoctoral studies at Rockefeller University and Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.