Profiles

Persis Drell - Provost of Stanford University and James and Anna Marie Spilker Professor and Professor of Physics

Provost of Stanford University

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Dr. Drell is the Provost of Stanford University, the James and Anna Marie Spilker Professor in the School of Engineering, and a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Stanford University.
Persiana Saffari - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2016 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant and 2017 Student Mentor

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Supported by: Victoria Reed
Mentor: Jonathan Pollack, Pathology
Penka Markova-Raina - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2008

Home Department: Biological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: The choice of aligner significantly impacts the estimates of positive selection in the 12 Drosophila genomes
Event: Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2008
Pehr Harbury - Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Harbury's Lab Homepage

Dr. Harbury's lab engineers proteins and small-molecule drugs at atomic resolution through a combination of structural calculations and combinatorial library synthesis.
Peggy Yao - Bio-X Bowes Fellow

Bio-X Graduate Student Fellow

Awarded in 2006
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Jean-Claude Latombe (Computer Science)
Pedro De La Torre - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Eric Gross (Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine)
Payton Marshall - Bio-X Bowes Fellow

Bio-X Graduate Student Fellow

Awarded in 2017
Home Departments: Immunology and Medicine
Faculty Advisors: Paul Bollyky (Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Microbiology & Immunology) and Carolyn Bertozzi (Chemistry)
Pauline Funchain - Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology)

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Pauline Funchain, Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology) at Stanford, received a Bachelor of Arts in Bioethics from Pomona College and her medical degree from the Ohio State College of Medicine.
Paula Welander - Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Welander's Lab Homepage

Dr. Welander is a microbiologist with interests in understanding the biosynthesis and physiological function of “molecular fossils” or biomarkers in extant bacteria.
Paul Yock - The Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Medicine, and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering

Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty

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Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Homepage

Dr. Yock is the founder and director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, a multidisciplinary training and support program for physicians and engineers with the ambition and talent to become health technology innovators.