Robert Rizzo

TITLE

Professor

DEPARTMENT

Applied Mathematics & Statistics

PHONE

631-632-9340

EMAIL

Robert.Rizzo@stonybrook.edu

WEBSITE

Website link

Rob Rizzo works in Computational Structural Biology. His research group seeks to understand the atomic basis for molecular recognition for specific biological systems involved in human disease such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and influenza with the ultimate goal of developing new and improved drugs. Computational methods are used to model how molecules interact at the atomic level with a given drug target. The resultant 3D structural and energetic information is used to quantify and rationalize drug-binding for known systems and to make new predictions.