Rachana Mudipalli - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Mentor: Karl Deisseroth, Bioengineering and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Novel helicene unit for incorporation in spring-shape polymers that maintain electronic performance
Event: ACS Fall 2025
Awarded in 2021
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisors: Rhiju Das (Biochemistry) and Wah Chiu (Bioengineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Photon Science Directorate)
Quynh-Thu Le, MD is the Katharine Dexter McCormick & Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University. She co-directs the Radiation Biology Program of the Stanford Cancer Institute. Her clinical focus is on radiation management of head and neck cancer (HNC). She has led multicenter phase II and III clinical trials, testing the addition of novel drugs as well as radiosensitizer or radioprotector with chemoradiotherapy in HNC.
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer McNab
Talk Title: Diffusion MRI Tractography for Improved MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy Targeting for Essential Tremor
Event: 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - Qiyuan received the Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (top 3% of submitted abstracts at the meeting).
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Gerlinde Wernig
Talk Title: Multi-omics reveals cJun and SLC4A4 as key drivers of renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Decoding the spatial transcriptomic landscape of diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology (ASN), ASN Kidney Week 2023
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Frozen flow: Mobility of diatoms in ice
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024