Profiles

Marc Levenston - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Laboratory)

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

Stanford Profile

Dr. 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.
Marc Arslanian - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2024 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Naima Sharaf (Biology)
Manuel Rivas - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Rivas's Lab Homepage

The Rivas Lab is located in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. Their main research focus is the genetics of chronic diseases.
Manuel Rausch - Affymetrix Bio-X Fellow

Bio-X SIGF Graduate Student Fellow

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Ellen Kuhl (Mechanical Engineering) and D. Craig Miller (Medicine)
Manu Prakash - Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Prakash's Lab Homepage

Dr. 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.
Manjari Narayan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2020

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Amit Etkin
Talk Title: Elucidating the causality in "causal brain circuits": When do we need etiological brain-circuit biomarkers?
Event: Annual Meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping 2020
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Manish Saggar - Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

Stanford Profile

The 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.
Manish Ayushman - Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (Anonymous Donor)

Bio-X SIGF Graduate Student Fellow

Awarded in 2021
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Fan Yang (Bioengineering, Orthopaedic Surgery) and Ashby Morrison (Biology)
Manish Ayushman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Stem cell dancing enhances 3D chondrogenesis via early-stage cytoskeleton and nuclear mechanosensing
Event: 2024 Gordon Research Conference- Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology
Malvika Pillai - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Talk Title: Validation approaches for computational drug repurposing: a review
Event: AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium