Davis Brody Bond, a Page Company, was initially commissioned by the State University Construction Fund to prepare a Program Study for the new Center for Biotechnology for Stony Brook University. The Program Study was completed in 2005 and we were subsequently selected to design the structure.

The Center includes state-of-the-art facilities for Biomedical Engineering Research, Biomedical Engineering Education, the Biotechnology Center for Advanced Technology (CAT), and Sensor Center of Advanced Technology (Sensor CAT). In addition, it houses DNA sequencers and electronic/biology interfaces. The new Center furthers Stony Brook’s mission to be a leader in discovery-based research and technology development in the areas of functional genomics instrumentation, gene discovery, drug design and delivery, and smart micro- and nano-based biomaterials and biosensors.

The three-story building completes the quadrangle of Life Science Buildings on Stony Brook’s academic campus. Custom designed laboratories and clean rooms are located in the basement level. The above ground floors consist of 12 generic labs flexibly configured as modules allowing for growth without future renovation. Offices for principal investigators are situated between the labs with nearby support facilities including equipment rooms, microscope rooms, and tissue culture rooms.

The Center for Biotechnology is part of New York State’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), a government public-benefit corporation that supports collaborative industry/academic partnerships to foster integrated approaches for developing and commercializing innovative technologies.