2025 Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows.
June 10, 2025
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2025 Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows. This year's 20 exemplary awardees represent 13 different Stanford departments and programs, and they will collaborate with 48 Stanford faculty mentors to bridge disciplines and undertake groundbreaking innovative research as a part of the Stanford Bio-X community. With the addition of our 2025 cohort, the Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellowship Program has now awarded a total of 426 meritorious Stanford students, supporting their unique and transformative interdisciplinary research projects and scientific careers.
Since its inception in 2004, the Stanford Bio-X Fellowship Program has supported Stanford PhD students pursuing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research under multiple faculty mentors, offering them the freedom to pursue their passions and maximize the impact and expand the scope of their work. These remarkable young researchers receive full support (stipend and tuition) from Bio-X for three years of their graduate studies, allowing them to approach exciting research questions as they create connections within the Bio-X community and across campus.
To date, 317 Stanford Bio-X Fellows have graduated from Stanford, with alumni of the program establishing successful careers in the industry sector, founding start-up companies, holding professorships at Stanford and its peer institutions, and much more. Many of our alumni who have become Stanford faculty have now mentored Bio-X PhD Fellows in their own labs!
We are honored to welcome the 2025 Fellows to the Bio-X community, and look forward to supporting them as they expand their research careers.
Bio-X is grateful to our donors, including the Bowes Foundation, for their continued generous support of the program.
Learn More About The Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows!
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The 2025 Stanford Bio-X Fellows Cohort in alphabetical order:
Peter Allen (Biology)
Advised by: Profs. Vayu Hill-Maini and Polly Fordyce
Dixin Chen(Biomedical Physics)
Advised by: Profs. Billy Loo and Maximilian Diehn
Lauren Cooper (Mechanical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Guosong Hong and Xiaoke Chen
Sarah DiIorio (Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Medicine)
Advised by: Profs. Michael Longaker and Vivian Feig
Yi Yi Du (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Mark Skylar-Scott and Joseph Wu
Simone Evans (Genetics)
Advised by: Profs. Alex Gao, Daniel Herschlag, Liang Feng, Tino Pleiner, Rhiju Das, Andy Fire, Haopeng Xiao, and Chaitan Khosla
Andrea Flores Perez (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Yunzhi Yang, Guillem Pratx, and John Sunwoo
Chiho Im (Computer Science)
Advised by: Profs. Anshul Kundaje, Scott Boyd, and Tho Pham
Jessica Karaguesian (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Polly Fordyce and Ron Dror
Tara Lowensohn (Chemistry)
Advised by: Profs. Elizabeth Sattely, Mary Beth Mudgett, and Xiaojing Gao
Kunlin Ma (Mechanical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Juan Santiago and Eric Shaqfeh
Lorenzo Magni (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Stanley Qi and Lars Steinmetz
Joseph Noh (Biophysics, Medicine)
Advised by: Profs. Karl Deisseroth, Christopher Barnes, and Ron Dror
Kamsiyochukwu Nwangwu (Neurosciences, Medicine)
Advised by: Profs. Michelle Monje and Crystal Mackall
Matthew Proefke (Chemical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Jennifer Cochran and Peter Jackson
Daniel Richman (Computer Science)
Advised by: Profs. Ron Dror, Kathleen Sakamoto, and Soichi Wakatsuki
Shuyu Shi (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Stephen Quake and Ash Alizadeh
Crystal Stackhouse (Biophysics)
Advised by: Profs. Joseph Puglisi, Daniel Herschlag, and Elisabetta Viani Puglisi
Yuxin Wu (Electrical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Paul Nuyujukian and Monroe Kennedy
Wenyan (Lucy) Zhang (Genetics)
Advised by: Profs. Casey Gifford and Michael Bassik
