Home Department: Bioengineering
Mentor: Bo Wang, Bioengineering

Dr. Xuejun Gu is Associate Professor and Director of Translational Research of Radiation Oncology Department at Stanford University. Dr. Gu's research has been focused on artificial intelligence in medicine, medical imaging and image analysis, and treatment planning. With the research emphasizing on clinical application, she has made unique and significant contributions to translating home-developed software platforms into the clinic and pre-clinic. Dr.

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Russ Altman
Talk Title: Mining the pharmacogenics literature
Event: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2011

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Improving the Prediction of Pharmacogenes Using Text-Derived Gene-Drug Relationships
Event: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010 - The manuscript of Yael's talk was published in the conference proceedings and indexed by MEDLINE. She was also asked to co-chair a workshop the following year, which she did at the 2011 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in Hawaii.

Dr. Yair Blumenfeld is a Professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is management of high-risk pregnancies in the outpatient and inpatient settings, including comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care. He serves as the fetal therapy domain lead for the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center for Discovery, Innovation and Clinical Impact, as well as the Director of Fetal Therapy at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.