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Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Tessier-Lavigne’s laboratory investigates how neural circuits in the brain form during embryonic development. -
Marc Safran - Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Marc Safran is the Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine and Fellowship Director of Sports Medicine, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Safran specializes in Sports Medicine and arthroscopic and ligament reconstructive surgery on the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee.
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Marc Lipsitch - Michael & Barbara Berberian Professor, Professor of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center FacultyDr. Marc Lipsitch started his appointments at Stanford on January 1, 2026. From 1999-2025 he was a faculty member at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, where he was Professor of Epidemiology (2006-2025) and founding Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (2009-2025).
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Marc Levenston - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Laboratory)
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Levenston's primary research interests relate to the function, degeneration and repair of articular cartilage and fibrocartilage, with an emphasis on understanding the complex interactions between biophysical and biochemical cues in controlling cell behavior. -
Manuel Rivas - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyThe Rivas Lab is located in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. Their main research focus is the genetics of chronic diseases. -
Manu Prakash - Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Prakash's lab brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, physics of computation and unconventional nano-fabrication to open problems in organismic and cellular biophysics, with a current focus on hydraulic constraints on living systems. -
Manish Saggar - Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyThe overarching goal of Dr. Saggar's research is to develop reliable computational methods that will allow for characterizing and modeling temporal dynamics of brain activity, without averaging data in either space or time. -
Madeleine Udell - Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Madeleine Udell is an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), with an affiliation with the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).
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Mac Schwager - Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Mac Schwager is an Associate Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University. He earned his BS from Stanford in 2000, his MS from MIT in 2005, and his PhD from MIT in 2009. Dr. Schwager was a postdoc jointly at UPenn and MIT from 2009 to 2012, and was an assistant professor at Boston University from 2012 to 2015, before joining Stanford Aero-Astro in 2015. His research interests are in distributed algorithms for coordination, estimation, and learning in groups of robots and animals.
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Maayan Levy - Assistant Professor of Pathology
Bio-X Affiliated FacultyDr. Maayan Levy received her Ph.D. in Immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science. After completion of her PhD, Dr. Levy became an Assistant Professor at the Microbiology Department of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levy has recently joined the Stanford Medicine Department of Pathology as an Assistant Professor and the Arc Institute as an Innovation Investigator in Residence.
