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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    Arturo Vegas

    Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
    The Vegas group pursues general and systematic approaches to developing targeted therapeutic carriers for the treatment of multiple human diseases. Small-molecule drugs excel at altering disease states at the cellular level, but their therapeutic benefits are often hindered by physiological barriers that impact their toxicity, efficacy, and distribution. The ability to overcome these barriers can […]
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    Wilson Wong

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering
    Our ability to observe biological systems has advanced dramatically over the past decades. However, our ability to modulate and control biology, especially through genetic means, has been lagging.  Even with the recent developments in genome editing, we cannot still dynamically regulate cell functions, especially in complex living multicellular organisms such as mammals, with independent control […]
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    Zeba Wunderlich

    Associate Professor of Biology
    Regulatory DNA encodes the gene regulatory networks that are required for virtually every process in an animal, from development to immunity. The Wunderlich lab is interested in understanding how a gene regulatory network’s tasks influence its architecture, robustness, and evolvability. To probe these questions, we use two model systems: the Drosophila early embryonic patterning system […]
  • Rabia Tugce Yazicigi Headshot

    Rabia Yazicigil Kirby

    Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
    My team develops Cyber-Secure Biological Systems uniquely coupling genetically engineered biological systems with secure low-power integrated electronics for healthcare, environmental monitoring, and sustainable manufacturing