The Synthetic Biology HIVE @ HMS

Using knowledge gleaned through systems biology to solve real-world problems

The problem

Protecting human health in the 21st century is a global endeavor. New threats to human well-being – from emerging pathogens to climate change – demand entirely new solutions.

Our inspiration

Biology holds answers to the problems we face in our society today. Living things build, maintain, and recycle themselves sustainably; they eliminate toxins from the environment and use them productively; and they fight pathogens quickly and creatively. Life on earth has all the requisite abilities we need to power new medical and sustainability strategies.

Our solution

Our community has a long history of coaxing life’s secrets out of molecules, cells, and organisms. The Synthetic Biology HIVE now leverages the unsurpassed expertise of Harvard Medical School to develop new quantitative biotechnology with the goal of solving real-world problems.

Our Projects

  • Eliminating pandemics

    More information coming soon

  • Promoting sustainability

    More information is coming soon.

Our collaborators

  • Allon Klein

    Learn more Allon's work here.

  • Debbie Marks

    Learn more about Debbie's work here.

  • Johan Paulsson

    Learn more about Johan's work here.

  • Mike Springer

    Learn more about Mike's work here.

  • Pam Silver

    Learn more about Pam's work here.

  • Quincey Justman

    Learn more about Quincey's work here.

  • Sahand Hormoz

    Learn more about Sahand's work here.

  • Simon Nørrelykke

    Learn more about Simon's work here.

Our HIVE fellows

  • Neil Dalvie

    Neil engineers microbes for large scale bioprocesses such as mineral weathering and marine carbon sequestration.

  • Michael Corey

    Michael develops pipelines for detecting and functionalizing novel metal-binding proteins to enable sustainable bio-mining.

  • Simon d’Oelsnitz

    Simon uses data-directed evolution to engineer proteins for chemical measurement in living cells.