#  Vaibhav Mohanty 

Graduate Student

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program

 

 

 



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 email <mohanty@hms.harvard.edu> 

 



 

My work introduced the foundations of **fitness landscape design (FLD)**, my new approach to shape the evolutionary landscape of proteins to fight disease. Using FLD, I **design "evolutionary traps"**—for example, using antibodies—to combat the rapid evolution of proteins in infectious pathogens and in cancer. Broadly, I am interested in understanding links between thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions and protein evolution.