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Real-time autonomous evolution of therapies, tools, and technologies.

Department of Biomedical Engineering @ Duke University

Our research focus.

We combine the disciplines of directed evolution, high-throughput robotics, and chromatin biology to engineer novel precision biologics and build mechanistic models that will better inform our ability to understand and tackle human disease.

To read more about our research, see our research page.

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Directed evolution schematic
Duke Biomedical Engineering
Duke Biomedical Engineering

Our team.

We are building a team of biomedical engineers, scientists, and physicians interested in problems at the interface of genomics, therapeutic discovery, and evolution.

Current Lab Members

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

Chory Lab robotics
Open-source automation

Our resources.

We build and support open-source tools for answering fundamental questions in biology and medicine. Some we wrote, others we use and contribute to. All are free to use.

All open-source resources
The Chory Lab in matching Jurassic Park costumes at the Duke BME Halloween party

Join us.

If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated, life-long learner interested in protein engineering, directed evolution, cancer biology, or solving these problems with data-responsive science, we would love to hear from you.

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Chory Lab

Contact.

Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Emma Chory
CIEMAS Room 2353b
101 Science Drive, Durham, NC