Living System Design Lab — Bingxu Liu · Ragon Institute & Harvard Medical School
Ragon Institute · Harvard Medical School

Decode nature. Design beyond it.

We seek the molecular principles that govern life — from single proteins to cells to whole organs — and build engineering approaches that overcome the limits evolution left behind.

Explore the research → Bingxu Liu · Incoming Professor, Spring 2027
FIG.01 — ONE QUESTION, THREE SCALES
MOLECULAR
CELLULAR
ORGAN

From a single designed protein to a whole living system — reading the logic at every scale, then redesigning it.

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OVERVIEW
01 — RESEARCH

Ongoing research

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02 — PUBLICATIONS

Selected work

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03 — TEAM

Bingxu Liu & the team

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04 — NIGHT SCIENCE

The work before the result

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We're recruiting curious people who want to build biology.

PhD rotations are open now for Harvard & MIT students; postdoc and RA recruitment is coming soon.

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