Liangliang Hao, PhD

Assistant Professor (BME)

Office ERB 701B
Email lhao1@bu.edu
Website Hao Lab

In the News

Spotting Signs of Cancer When There’s Still Time
June 13, 2025
With a bold plan for a new imaging platform, Liangliang Hao has earned a 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Award. [ More ]

Publications

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Research Areas

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 at the Point-of-Care, (2) tissue-specific transcriptome engineering, and (3) multimodal systemic imaging. These projects will shed light on the dynamic interplay of diseased cells and their microenvironment. We seek to use these insights to address grand challenges of getting precision medicine into healthcare practice such as comorbidities, timely interventions, and access in low-resource areas.

Honors and Awards

NIH-NCI Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Ludwig Molecular Oncology Postdoctoral Fellowship
Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship
International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Research Award
Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society Nucleic Acid Research Award
Leading Edge Fellow, Inaugural HHMI Leading Edge Symposium
Bayer Lindau Fellow, Bayer Science & Education Foundation
Convergence Scholar, MIT Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine

Department or Division: Biomedical Engineering

Affiliations: Primary & Affiliated Faculty, Synthetic Biology, Tissue Engineering & Mechanobiology

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