Maya Varma - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Mentor: Dennis Wall, Pediatrics (System Medicine) and Biomedical Data Science
Dr. Maya Mathur is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University Quantitative Sciences Unit, the principal investigator of the Humane & Sustainable Food Lab, and the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Open and Reproducible Science. Dr. Mathur is a statistician whose methodological research focuses on advancing methods for causal inference, meta-analysis, replication studies, and sensitivity analysis. Her lab’s empirical research focuses on effective means to reduce global consumption of meat and animal products.
Dr. Maya Kasowski is a clinical pathologist and assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Genetics (by courtesy) at Stanford. She completed her MD-PhD training at Yale University and her residency training and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. Dr. Kasowski's experiences as a clinical pathologist and genome scientist have made her passionate about applying cutting-edge technologies to primary patient specimens in order to characterize disease pathologies at the molecular level.
Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Eric Gross (Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine)
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Spatial dissection of the tumor microenvironment identifies unique tissue motifs predicting response to checkpoint-inhibitor therapy in advanced Merkel cell carcinoma
Event: German Society of Dermatological Oncology Annual Meeting (ADO) 2024