Team — Living System Design Lab
Principal Investigator
Bingxu Liu in the lab
Photo: Ian Haydon, Institute for Protein Design.

Bingxu Liu, PhD

Incoming Professor, Spring 2027 · Ragon Institute & Dept. of Immunology, HMS

Bingxu studies the immune system from molecular mechanism to designed therapeutics — discovering that human STING is a proton channel and designing high-specificity binders for peptide–MHC complexes. He trained in biology at MIT and in protein design at the Institute for Protein Design. The Living System Design Lab is his first independent group.

Education
  • PhD, Biology · MIT, 2023
  • BSc · Zhejiang University, 2016
Advisors
  • David Baker · postdoc
    Institute for Protein Design, UW
  • Darrell Irvine & Nir Hacohen · PhD
    Koch Institute & Broad Institute
Michelson Prize 2024 — Grand Winner Weintraub Award 2024 MIT School of Science Fellowship

The lab is forming now — member profiles will live here as we grow. Join us →