Laboratory of Evolutionary Design
Aligning biological AI with human good at Stanford University
Research
Our mission is to ensure that the AI revolution in biology occurs in a way that benefits humanity.
We aim to design biology that counteracts evolving threats and accomplishes useful new functions.
Learning from nature
Human immunity is much more resilient than our antibody drugs. Learning how the immune system balances short-term protection and long-term adaptability is critical to designing robust therapeutics.
Accelerating evolution
Evolution is a powerful force, as well as a powerful adversary. By learning evolutionary rules from data, machine learning provides a way to harness this force for our benefit.
Safe biological AI
Current drug design is already outcompeted by natural evolution. Generative models must enable researchers to rapidly deploy countermeasures against harmful biology.
Progress
Some of our research progress is described in the selected publications below.
