The Biological Design Center brings together expertise from across multiple disciplines and departments at Boston University—including biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, biology, physics, data science, and chemistry—to build a diverse, inclusive, and engaged community that conducts groundbreaking, collaborative research in biological design and sets the standards for education and training in synthetic biology and biotechnology. We are comprised of more than 20 faculty and approximately 160 graduate students/post-doctoral fellows.
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    Liang Hao

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Precision medicine has transformative impact in managing heterogeneous disorders including cancer, metabolic, and neurological diseases. At the living interface of precision engineering and health, the Hao laboratory will develop molecular and cellular tools to precisely track and control disease biology in intact organisms. Our specific research interests include (1) noninvasive disease detection and treatment monitoring […]
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    Miguel Jimenez

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    The capacity of living cells to continuously monitor and act on their environment with molecular specificity is unmatched by any sensor or actuator developed by humans. We have shown that it is possible to use genetically engineered microorganisms as the sensing and actuation elements in electronic and mechanical devices. These integrated microbial devices outperform traditional […]
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    Ahmad Khalil

    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Our laboratory develops novel tools of synthetic and systems biology that allow us to construct regulatory circuits inside living cells that recapitulate complex functions like those seen in nature. We are using our tools to dissect the molecular circuits that control gene regulation in eukaryotes, toward addressing the grand challenge of understanding their organization across scale […]
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    Kirill Korolev

    Associate Professor, Physics and Bioinformatics
    Kirill Korolev is an Associate Professor of Physics and Bioinformatics at Boston University. After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2010, he spent three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Korolev uses mathematical modeling, computation, and statistical analysis of data to understand evolution and population […]
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    Joseph William Larkin

    Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics
    Throughout evolutionary history, life has explored the laws of physics, creating remarkable new strategies to perpetuate itself. Our group seeks to understand how these strategies arise, using microbial populations as a model. We are interested in how the physical and chemical environment influences microbes, and how these microbes in turn engineer that very environment. In […]
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    Pankaj Mehta

    Professor of Physics
    I am interested in theoretical problems at the interface of statistical physics and biology. I want to understand how large-scale, collective behaviors observed in biological systems emerge from the interaction of many individual molecular elements, and how these interactions allow cells to perform complex computations in response to environmental cues. I am also a part […]
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    John Ngo

    Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Work in the Ngo Laboratory applies the principles of evolution, chemistry, and engineering to develop new tools for measuring, visualizing, and controlling biomolecules in living cells and organisms. The goal of our work is to develop novel technologies that enable discovery, and to apply those tools to reveal new insights into cellular function and disease. […]
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    Daniel Segre

    Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering
    We develop theoretical approaches and computational models for the study of complex biological networks. We are especially interested in the dynamics and evolution of metabolism, whose complex web of small-molecule transformations underlies fundamental aspects of biological organization, from energy transduction to cell-cell communication. In addition to helping understand how biological systems function and evolve, we […]
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    Trevor Siggers

    Associate Professor of Biology
    The goal of my laboratory’s research is a systems-level understanding of immune cell responses through integrative proteomic and genomic study of transcription factors (TFs). It is our vision that a biophysical understanding of TF function combined with genome-scale data will lead to quantitative models that can describe immune signaling in healthy and disease states. We have […]