The DERC offers expertise and training in virtually all facets of the biochemistry and cell biology of metabolic diseases, particularly diabetes and obesity.
Research includes cell signaling and signal transduction pathways.
The Lyme Disease Center Lyme Disease research at Stony Brook is interdisciplinary in its approach, involving the Departments of Medicine, Dermatology, Neurology, Pathology. The Lyme Disease Center's director, Ray Dattwyler, has joined Department of Medicine Chair Benjamin Luft in forming a company, Brook Biotechnologies, Inc., to support the development of Lyme disease diagnostics and therapeutics. The Institute studies the relationships between structure and function in cardiac ion channels and pumps and investigates how changes in the cardiac environment during development and pathologic states affect these proteins. It uses a multidisciplinary approach incorporating biophysics, physiology, pharmacology, cell biology and molecular biology.