Dr. Jason Ross is a physician-scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University. He received his BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where he conducted research in normal and cancer stem cell biology. He obtained his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College and his PhD from The Rockefeller University, where he studied breast cancer metastasis, as a member of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program in New York City. He conducted postdoctoral research as a Kaplan Research Fellow with co-advisors Dr. Irving Weissman and Dr.

The Skotheim laboratory studies size control in budding yeast, a genetically tractable eukaryotic organism.

Current research directions in the Liphardt lab include studies of the mechanobiology of tumor progression, super-resolution imaging of protein clustering in membranes, and single-molecule measurements of transport through biological pores and channels.

Dr. Zaki's research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions, why they conform to each other, and why they choose to help each other.