Our publications

2026
Machine learning enhanced atom probe tomography analysis
Progress in Materials Science
2026
Vol. 156 , p. 101561.DOI : 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2025.101561
2025
Accurate single-domain scaffolding of three nonoverlapping protein epitopes using deep learning
Nature Chemical Biology
2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41589-025-02083-z
Mapping the latent CRBN-molecular glue degrader interactome
2025
Leveraging protein representations to explore uncharted fold spaces with generative models
2025
Probing the energy landscape of α-Synuclein amyloid fibril formation by systematic K-to-Q mutagenesis
2025
Structure-based Design of Chimeric Influenza Hemagglutinins to Elicit Cross-group Immunity
2025
Structures of a synthetic antibody selected against and bound to the C‐terminal domain of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin
Protein Science
2025
Vol. 34 , num. 10.DOI : 10.1002/pro.70281
De novo design of phosphorylation-induced protein switches for synthetic signaling in cells
2025
Applications and properties of computationally designed de novo proteins
Structural Dynamics
2025
75th Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, Lombard, Illinois, US, 2025-07-18 – 2025-07-23.p. A175
DOI : 10.1063/4.0000965
One-shot Design of Functional Protein Binders with Bindcraft
NATURE
2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41586-025-09429-6
Design of Highly Functional Genome Editors by Modelling Crispr-cas Sequences
NATURE
2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41586-025-09298-z
Probing the Effect of the Disordered Flank Regions on Amyloid Fibril Growth and Proliferation
RSC ADVANCES
2025
Vol. 15 , num. 26, p. 20668 – 20681.DOI : 10.1039/d5ra01654a
Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning
Nature
2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41586-025-09021-y
Computationally designed stem-epitope mimetics elicit broadly reactive antibodies
2025
Targeting protein-ligand neosurfaces with a generalizable deep learning tool
NATURE
2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-08435-4
Towards Conformational Targeting of Alpha-Synuclein Fibrils
Lausanne: EPFL2025
p. 197.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10710
Boosting Protein Graph Representations through Static-Dynamic Fusion
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning [forthcoming publication]
2025
42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, 2025-07-13 – 2025-07-19.Computational design of complex protein folds and soluble analogs of membrane proteins
Lausanne: EPFL2025
p. 157.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11287
Computational Design of Protein Switches
Lausanne: EPFL2025
p. 182.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11419
2024
The physiological landscape and specificity of antibody repertoires are consolidated by multiple immunizations
eLife
2024
Vol. 13 .DOI : 10.7554/eLife.92718
A deep mutational scanning platform to characterize the fitness landscape of anti-CRISPR proteins
Nucleic acids research
2024
Vol. 52 , num. 22.DOI : 10.1093/nar/gkae1052
Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models
NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
2024
DOI : 10.1038/s43588-024-00737-x
Epitope-focused immunogens targeting the hepatitis C virus glycoproteins induce broadly neutralizing antibodies
SCIENCE ADVANCES
2024
Vol. 10 , num. 49.DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.ado2600
Machine Learning-Enabled Tomographic Imaging of Chemical Short-Range Atomic Ordering
Advanced Materials
2024
Vol. 36 , num. 44, p. 2407564.DOI : 10.1002/adma.202407564
FSscore: A Personalized Machine Learning-Based Synthetic Feasibility Score
Chemistry-Methods
2024
Vol. 4 , num. 11, p. e202400024.DOI : 10.1002/cmtd.202400024
Dual ON/OFF-switch chimeric antigen receptor controlled by two clinically approved drugs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2024
Vol. 121 , num. 44.DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2405085121
Exploring “dark-matter” protein folds using deep learning
Cell systems
2024
Vol. 15 , num. 10, p. 898 – 910.e5.DOI : 10.1016/j.cels.2024.09.006
Structures of the Foamy virus fusion protein reveal an unexpected link with the F protein of paramyxo- and pneumoviruses
Science Advances
2024
Vol. 10 , num. 41, p. eado7035.DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.ado7035
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway
Nature chemistry
2024
Vol. 16 , num. 10, p. 1656 – 1664.DOI : 10.1038/s41557-024-01562-5
3D deep learning for enhanced atom probe tomography analysis of nanoscale microstructures
Acta Materialia
2024
Vol. 278 , p. 120280.DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120280
Roadmap on data-centric materials science
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
2024
Vol. 32 , num. 6, p. 063301.DOI : 10.1088/1361-651X/ad4d0d
Computational design of soluble and functional membrane protein analogues
Nature
2024
Vol. 631 , num. 8020, p. 449 – 458.DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-07601-y
Joint host-pathogen genomic analysis identifies hepatitis B virus mutations associated with human NTCP and HLA class I variation
American Journal Of Human Genetics
2024
Vol. 111 , num. 6.DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.04.013
Antibody-peptide conjugates deliver covalent inhibitors blocking oncogenic cathepsins
Nature Chemical Biology
2024
DOI : 10.1038/s41589-024-01627-z
Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2024
DOI : 10.1038/s41580-024-00718-y
Equivariant 3D-conditional diffusion model for molecular linker design
Nature Machine Intelligence
2024
Vol. 6 , num. 4, p. 417 – 427.DOI : 10.1038/s42256-024-00815-9
A Synthetic Multivalent Lipopeptide Derived from Pam3CSK4 with Irreversible Influenza Inhibition and Immuno-Stimulating Effects
Small
2024
DOI : 10.1002/smll.202307709
Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies
Cell
2024
Vol. 187 , num. 5, p. 1076 – 1100.DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.042
An atlas of protein homo-oligomerization across domains of life
Cell
2024
Vol. 187 , num. 4.DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.022
Multi-motif scaffolding for de novo pathogen antigen mimetics by deep generative learning
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 128.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10640
Predicting protein interactions using geometric deep learning on protein surfaces
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 141.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10271
Chemically disruptable molecule switch and use thereof
Patent number(s) :
- WO2024133630 (A1)
2024
Engineering novel protein interactions with therapeutic potential using deep learning-guided surface design
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 208.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10799
A PD-L1/EGFR bispecific antibody combines immune checkpoint blockade and direct anti-cancer action for an enhanced anti-tumor response
Oncoimmunology
2024
Vol. 12 , num. 1, p. 2205336.DOI : 10.1080/2162402X.2023.2205336
2023
A new age in protein design empowered by deep learning
Cell Systems
2023
Vol. 14 , num. 11, p. 925 – 939.DOI : 10.1016/j.cels.2023.10.006
Protein-based bandpass filters for controlling cellular signaling with chemical inputs
Nature Chemical Biology
2023
DOI : 10.1038/s41589-023-01463-7
Deformation response of highly stretchable and ductile graphene kirigami under uniaxial and biaxial tension
Physical Review B
2023
Vol. 108 , num. 13, p. 134105.DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.134105
Rational design of small-molecule responsive protein switches
Protein Science
2023
Vol. 32 , num. 10, p. e4774.DOI : 10.1002/pro.4774
Rules and mechanisms governing G protein coupling selectivity of GPCRs
Cell Reports
2023
Vol. 42 , num. 10, p. 113173.DOI : 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113173
Discriminating physiological from non‐physiological interfaces in structures of protein complexes: A community‐wide study
PROTEOMICS
2023
Vol. [early access] , p. e2200323.DOI : 10.1002/pmic.202200323
Rational Design of Chemically Controlled Antibodies and Protein Therapeutics
ACS Chemical Biology
2023
Vol. 18 , num. 6, p. 1259 – 1265.DOI : 10.1021/acschembio.3c00012
De novo protein design by inversion of the AlphaFold structure prediction network
Protein Science
2023
Vol. 36 , num. 6, p. e4653.DOI : 10.1002/pro.4653
New protein–protein interactions designed by a computer
Nature
2023
DOI : 10.1038/d41586-023-01324-2
De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints
Nature
2023
Vol. 617 , num. 7959, p. 176 – 184.DOI : 10.1038/s41586-023-05993-x
Multienzyme deep learning models improve peptide de novo sequencing by mass spectrometry proteomics
Plos Computational Biology
2023
Vol. 19 , num. 1, p. e1010457.DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010457
Track: Machine Learning in Protein Science De Novo Design of Viral Epitope Mimetics with Non-Regular Structural Features
Protein Science
2023
36th Annual Symposium of the Protein-Society, San Francisco, CA, Jul 07-10, 2022.De novo designed proteins: a study in engineering novel folds and functions
Lausanne: EPFL2023
p. 183.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11556
2022
Computational design of vaccine immunogens
Current Opinion In Biotechnology
2022
Vol. 78 , p. 102821.DOI : 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102821
Invasive Streptococcal Infection Can Lead to the Generation of Cross-Strain Opsonic Antibodies
Microbiology Spectrum
2022
DOI : 10.1128/spectrum.02486-22
A generic framework for hierarchical de novo protein design
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)
2022
Vol. 119 , num. 43, p. e2206111119.DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2206111119
Assessing and enhancing foldability in designed proteins
Protein Science
2022
Vol. 31 , num. 9, p. e4400.DOI : 10.1002/pro.4400
Programmable DARPin-based receptors for the detection of thrombotic markers
Nature Chemical Biology
2022
DOI : 10.1038/s41589-022-01095-3
Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2022
Vol. 21 , p. 676 – 696.DOI : 10.1038/s41573-022-00495-3
Computational design of novel protein–protein interactions – An overview on methodological approaches and applications
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
2022
Vol. 74 , p. 102370.DOI : 10.1016/j.sbi.2022.102370
Rational design of protein switches: applications in synthetic biology and cancer immunotherapy
Lausanne: EPFL2022
p. 137.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9246
Targeting molecular surfaces to engineer novel protein-based immunogens and inhibitors
Lausanne: EPFL2022
p. 137.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9141
Novel chemically controlled cellular switches
Patent number(s) :
- WO2022156885 (A1)
2022
A method and system for fast end-to-end learning on protein surfaces
Patent number(s) :
- WO2022152478 (A1)
2022
Towards automating de novo protein design for novel functionalities: controlling protein folds and protein-protein interactions
Lausanne: EPFL2022
p. 213.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9195
2021
Computational design of bioactive protein switches with multi-logics for cell-based therapeutics
Protein Science
2021
p. 37 – 37
De Novo Design of Site-specific Protein Binders Using Surface Fingerprints
Protein Science
2021
p. 162 – 163
On the use of direct-coupling analysis with a reduced alphabet of amino acids combined with super-secondary structure motifs for protein fold prediction
Nar Genomics And Bioinformatics
2021
Vol. 3 , num. 2, p. lqab027.DOI : 10.1093/nargab/lqab027
A Nanoscaffolded Spike-RBD Vaccine Provides Protection against SARS-CoV-2 with Minimal Anti-Scaffold Response
Vaccines
2021
Vol. 9 , num. 5, p. 431.DOI : 10.3390/vaccines9050431
Optimization of therapeutic antibodies by predicting antigen specificity from antibody sequence via deep learning
Nature Biomedical Engineering
2021
Vol. 5 , p. 600 – 612.DOI : 10.1038/s41551-021-00699-9
Modeling Immunity with Rosetta: Methods for Antibody and Antigen Design
Biochemistry
2021
Vol. 60 , num. 11, p. 825 – 846.DOI : 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00912
Optogenetic control of Neisseria meningitidis Cas9 genome editing using an engineered, light-switchable anti-CRISPR protein
Nucleic Acids Research
2021
Vol. 49 , num. 5, p. e29.DOI : 10.1093/nar/gkaa1198
A Rosetta-based protein design protocol converging to natural sequences
Journal Of Chemical Physics
2021
Vol. 154 , num. 7, p. 074114.DOI : 10.1063/5.0039240
SPServer: split-statistical potentials for the analysis of protein structures and protein-protein interactions
Bmc Bioinformatics
2021
Vol. 22 , num. 1, p. 4.DOI : 10.1186/s12859-020-03770-5
Bottom-up de novo design of functional proteins with complex structural features
Nature Chemical Biology
2021
Vol. 17 , p. 492 – 500.DOI : 10.1038/s41589-020-00699-x
On the exploration of novel methodological approaches for immunogen design: case studies in influenza and hepatitis C
Lausanne: EPFL2021
p. 149.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8752
Preclinical development of a humanized chimeric antigen receptor against B-cell maturation antigen for multiple myeloma
Haematologica
2021
Vol. 106 , num. 1, p. 173 – 184.DOI : 10.3324/haematol.2019.228577
Fast end-to-end learning on protein surfaces
2021 Ieee/Cvf Conference On Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition, Cvpr 2021
2021
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 19-25, 2021.p. 15267 – 15276
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.01502
2020
Oligomerization Profile of Human Transthyretin Variants with Distinct Amyloidogenicity
Molecules
2020
Vol. 25 , num. 23, p. 5698.DOI : 10.3390/molecules25235698
Designs and Characterization of Subunit Ebola GP Vaccine Candidates: Implications for Immunogenicity
Frontiers In Immunology
2020
Vol. 11 , p. 586595.DOI : 10.3389/fimmu.2020.586595
Picometer Resolution Structure of the Coordination Sphere in the Metal-Binding Site in a Metalloprotein by NMR
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
2020
Vol. 142 , num. 39, p. 16757 – 16765.DOI : 10.1021/jacs.0c07339
On the prediction of DNA-binding preferences of C2H2-ZF domains using structural models: application on human CTCF
Nar Genomics And Bioinformatics
2020
Vol. 2 , num. 3, p. lqaa046.DOI : 10.1093/nargab/lqaa046
Macromolecular modeling and design in Rosetta: recent methods and frameworks
Nature Methods
2020
Vol. 17 , p. 665 – 680.DOI : 10.1038/s41592-020-0848-2
De novo protein design enables the precise induction of RSV-neutralizing antibodies
Science
2020
Vol. 368 , num. 6492, p. eaay5051730.DOI : 10.1126/science.aay5051
Computational design of anti-CRISPR proteins with improved inhibition potency
Nature Chemical Biology
2020
Vol. 16 , p. 725 – 730.DOI : 10.1038/s41589-020-0518-9
Structural basis for recognition of RALF peptides by LRX proteins during pollen tube growth
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)
2020
Vol. 117 , num. 13, p. 7494 – 7503.DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2000100117
Epitope Mapping and Fine Specificity of Human T and B Cell Responses for Novel Candidate Blood-Stage Malaria Vaccine P27A
Frontiers In Immunology
2020
Vol. 11 , p. 412.DOI : 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00412
A computationally designed chimeric antigen receptor provides a small-molecule safety switch for T-cell therapy
Nature Biotechnology
2020
Vol. 38 , p. 426 – 432.DOI : 10.1038/s41587-019-0403-9
The more the merrier: how homo-oligomerization alters the interactome and function of ribonucleotide reductase
Current Opinion In Chemical Biology
2020
Vol. 54 , p. 10 – 18.DOI : 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.09.003
Immunogen
Patent number(s) :
- WO2020065033 (A1)
- EP3628678 (A1)
2020
Immunogen
Patent number(s) :
- JP2022542003 (A)
- US2022249649 (A1)
- EP3758004 (A1)
- CA3145336 (A1)
- WO2020260910 (A1)
2020
Functional de novo Protein Design for Targeted Vaccines and Synthetic Biology Applications
Lausanne: EPFL2020
p. 172.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7545
2019
Deciphering interaction fingerprints from protein molecular surfaces using geometric deep learning
Nature Methods
2019
Vol. 17, pages184–192(2020) , p. 184 – 192.DOI : 10.1038/s41592-019-0666-6
Alternative interaction sites in the influenza A virus nucleoprotein mediate viral escape from the importin-alpha 7 mediated nuclear import pathway
Febs Journal
2019
Vol. 286 , num. 17, p. 3374 – 3388.DOI : 10.1111/febs.14868
Decrypting interaction fingerprints in protein molecular surfaces
European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters
2019
Joint 12th EBSA European Biophysics Congress / 10th IUPAP International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP), Madrid, SPAIN, Jul 20-24, 2019.p. S224 – S224
rstoolbox – a Python library for large-scale analysis of computational protein design data and structural bioinformatics
BMC Bioinformatics
2019
Vol. 20 , num. 240, p. 240.DOI : 10.1186/s12859-019-2796-3
Engineered Anti-CRISPR Proteins for Precision Control of CRISPR-Cas9
Molecular Therapy
2019
22nd Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Gene-and-Cell-Therapy (ASGCT), Washington, DC, Apr 29-May 02, 2019.p. 297 – 297
Boosting subdominant neutralizing antibody responses with a computationally designed epitope-focused immunogen
PLoS Biology
2019
Vol. 17 , num. 2, p. e3000164.DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000164
Heterodimeric inactivatable chimeric antigen receptors
Patent number(s) :
- US2021113615 (A1)
- EP3774866 (A1)
- WO2019197676 (A1)
2019
Expanding beyond the natural protein repertoire to engineer targeted vaccines and diagnostics
Lausanne: EPFL2019
p. 150.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7515
2018
Engineered anti-CRISPR proteins for optogenetic control of CRISPR-Cas9
Nature Methods
2018
Vol. 15 , num. 11, p. 924 – 927.DOI : 10.1038/s41592-018-0178-9
Rosetta FunFolDes – A general framework for the computational design of functional proteins
PLoS Computational Biology
2018
Vol. 14 , num. 11, p. e1006623.DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006623
Driving Immune Responses with Synthetic Proteins – Development of De Novo Designed Immunogens to Elicit Respiratory Syncytial Virus Neutralizing Antibodies
Protein Science
2018
32nd Annual Symposium of the Protein-Society, Boston, MA, Jul 09-12, 2018.p. 49 – 50
Design and characterization of near-native Ebola GP vaccine candidates: implications for immunogenicity
Swiss Medical Weekly
2018
p. 6S – 7S
Expanding the druggable proteome: Ligand and target discovery by fragment-based screening in cells
Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society
2018
256th National Meeting and Exposition of the American-Chemical-Society (ACS) – Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Beyond, Boston, MA, Aug 19-23, 2018.Structure-based immunogen design – leading the way to the new age of precision vaccines
Current Opinion In Structural Biology
2018
Vol. 51 , p. 163 – 169.DOI : 10.1016/j.sbi.2018.06.002
OFF-switch CAR T cell for safety-enhanced cancer immunotherapy
Cancer Research
2018
Annual Meeting of the American-Association-for-Cancer-Research (AACR), Chicago, IL, Apr 14-18, 2018.DOI : 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2018-2570
Computational protein design – the next generation tool to expand synthetic biology applications
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
2018
Vol. 52 , p. 145 – 152.DOI : 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.04.001
ATTACK, a novel bispecific T cell-recruiting antibody with trivalent EGFR binding and monovalent CD3 binding for cancer immunotherapy
OncoImmunology
2018
Vol. 7 , num. 1, p. e1377874.DOI : 10.1080/2162402X.2017.1377874
Bispecific light T-cell engagers for gene-based immunotherapy of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive malignancies
CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY
2018
Vol. 67 , num. 8, p. 1251 – 1260.DOI : 10.1007/s00262-018-2181-5
On the mechanisms of protein interactions: predicting their affinity from unbound tertiary structures
BIOINFORMATICS
2018
Vol. 34 , num. 4, p. 592 – 598.DOI : 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx616
2016
InteractoMIX: a suite of computational tools to exploit interactomes in biological and clinical research
Biochemical Society Transactions
2016
Vol. 44 , num. 3, p. 917 – 924.DOI : 10.1042/Bst20150001
Protein-protein structure prediction by scoring molecular dynamics trajectories of putative poses
Proteins-Structure Function And Bioinformatics
2016
Vol. 84 , num. 9, p. 1312 – 1320.DOI : 10.1002/prot.25079
2015
Proof of principle for epitope-focused vaccine design
Protein Science
2015
29th Annual Symposium of the Protein-Society, Barcelona, SPAIN, JUL 22-25, 2015.p. 181 – 184
Understanding protein recognition using structural features
Protein Science
2015
29th Annual Symposium of the Protein-Society, Barcelona, SPAIN, JUL 22-25, 2015.p. 245 – 245