The Leonard Lab is committed to enabling an emerging paradigm of design-driven medicine by integrating synthetic biology with systems biology to address pressing challenges in medicine and biotechnology. We leverage and pioneer approaches spanning synthetic biology, protein engineering, experimental systems biology, and computational biology to develop technologies such as cell-based “devices” that serve as programmable immune therapies for cancer, novel biomolecular therapies based upon nanoscale vesicles, and engineered biosensors for applications in metabolic engineering and global health.

Undergraduate research associates are recruited on a rolling basis, as openings and mentor availability permits. If you are interested in joining our team, please send a brief email to Dr. Leonard explaining your interests, major, training to date, and proposed reserach start date and duration, and include a recent resume or CV. This information will be used to determine whether we might have a good fit, and we will reach back out to you to follow up if so.