Congratulations to Eugene Serebryany on His New Flagship Research Lab

Ribbon-cutting for Stony Brook's SUNY Flagship 1 Research Lab. From left: Eugene Serebryany, Leonard Cheung, William Wertheim, Peter Igarashi, Susan Hedayati, and Diego Restrepo.

Laufer Center faculty member Eugene Serebryany‍ has opened his new lab in Stony Brook's SUNY Flagship 1 Research Lab, unveiled at a ribbon-cutting at the Renaissance School of Medicine on July 2. His is one of three labs now housed in the renovated quadrant, alongside the groups of Leonard Cheung and Richard Lin from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

The space is the first to open under the SUNY Flagship Lab Modernization program, a $100 million investment by New York State to upgrade research infrastructure at the RSOM and across Stony Brook. Designed with open floor plans and updated, energy-efficient systems, the quadrant is built to encourage the kind of collaboration that modern biomedical research depends on.

It's a fitting home for Eugene's work on how changes in protein shape give rise to diseases such as cataracts and Parkinson's — research that also extends to engineering new proteins and peptides with potential against infection and cancer. We're glad to see this investment strengthening research at the Center and across the University, and we congratulate Eugene on this new chapter for his lab.

A full announcement is available on the Stony Brook News website.