Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Sarah Heilshorn (Materials Science & Engineering) and Theo Palmer (Neurosurgery)
Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Ron Kopito (Biology)
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Lei Xing
Talk Title: EnablingWeb-based Treatment Planning using a State-of-the-Art Convex Optimization Solver
Event: AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Annual Meeting 2015
Dr. Barbara A. Block holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professorship at Stanford University. Her research is focused on how large pelagic fish utilize the open ocean spanning from genomics to biologging. She and her team have pioneered the successful development and deployment of electronic tags on tunas, billfishes and sharks. The combination of lab and field research has led to a rapid increase in the understanding of movement patterns, population structure, physiology and behaviors of pelagic fish and sharks.
Dr. Bali Pulendran’s work focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which the innate immune system regulates adaptive immunity and harnessing such mechanisms in the design of novel vaccines against global pandemics. More recently, he has begun to apply systems biological approaches to predicting the efficacy of vaccines, and deciphering new correlates of protection against infectious diseases.
