{"id":595,"date":"2024-10-16T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=595"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:43:20","slug":"douglas-densmore","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/profile\/douglas-densmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Densmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer engineer, Densmore\u2019s research focuses on the development of tools for the specification, design, and assembly of synthetic biological systems, drawing upon his experience with embedded system-level design and electronic design automation. He is also the director of the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cidarlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research<\/a>\u00a0group at the University, where his research team develops computational and experimental tools for synthetic biology. Additionally, along with key Principal Investigators Wilson Wong and Mo Khalil, Densmore leads the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.programmingbiology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living Computing Project<\/a>, an effort to create a toolbox of catalogued biological parts that can be used to engineer organisms with predictable results, funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.cidarlab.org\/doug-densmore' class='button '>CIDAR Lab<\/a>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=39GscfIAAAAJ&#038;hl=en' class='button '>Google Scholar<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":24131,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}