Helmut
Strey
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424
Phone
(631) 632-1957
Website (URL)
Scholar Link
Interests
Biophysics, Single-molecule Microscopy, Single-cell Genomics, Microfluidics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Biography
Helmut H. Strey is the Director of the Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnologies and Associate Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Stony Brook University. He is a Biophysicist interested in developing micro- and nanotechnologies for applications in basic and applied research.
Strey was a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He has a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany (1993).
Awards
2003: Dillon Medal (American Physical Society)
2020: Weston Visiting Professorship at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel
2020: Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
2020: Weston Visiting Professorship at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel
2020: Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Research
Strey's lab, Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Quantitative Biology, is currently focused on three main areas of research:
- Cell–cell variability: Developing single-cell and micropatterning methods to track clonal populations over time and uncover cellular regulatory dynamics.
- Cancer-on-a-chip: Engineering 3D tumor microenvironments to study metabolic reprogramming, including the Warburg effect, under controlled nutrient conditions.
- Bayesian Analysis of time series and Network discovery: Creating statistical tools to model cellular and physiological dynamics, with applications ranging from intracellular networks to functional brain imaging.