Announcing the 2023 Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows!
May 30, 2023
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2023 cohort for the Stanford Bio-X PhD Graduate Student Fellowships.
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and fellows are generating scientific advances that expand our understanding of how the body works and will ultimately improve human health. These news stories and press releases describe some of those breakthroughs.
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2023-2024 RFP LIVE! Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
November 7, 2023
RFP LIVE NOW: the Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have opened its call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Apply for the 2024 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 16, 2023
Applications for the 2024 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program are due Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 8am PST! -
Brain cancer specialists hope Biden’s Moonshot speeds therapies
June 12, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michelle Monje and Michael Lim joined other thought leaders in Washington, D.C. to discuss what the Biden Administration-led Cancer Moonshot initiative could mean. -
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based highly scalable flexible neural electrode interface
June 7, 2023 - Science Advances
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nick Melosh and John Huguenard, with first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Eric Zhao and co-author Travel Award recipient Pingyu Wang, have developed an electrode connector based on an ultra-conformable thin-film electrode array that enables multithousand channel counts at a millimeter scale. This work could allow existing devices to capture cortex-wide activity in the brain such as thoughts, actions, and perception. -
In Conversation with Professor Carla Shatz - Nature Neuroscience
June 2, 2023 - Nature Neuroscience
The work of Dr. Carla Shatz, the Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at Stanford University, has illuminated mechanisms of visual system development and plasticity and has focused more recently on synaptic pruning mechanisms. -
Previously Unknown Intracellular Electricity May Power Biology
April 28, 2023 - Chem
Newly discovered electrical activity within cells, spearheaded by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center resident faculty member Dick Zare, could change the way researchers think about biological chemistry. -
Announcing the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Cohort!
April 4, 2023
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) cohort! -
Looking for love in all the wrong hormones
January 31, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nirao Shah have found that oxytocin, commonly known as the "love hormone" may not be crucial for the social behaviors it's known for. -
HHMI’s Emerging Pathogens Initiative Aims for Scientific Head Start on Future Epidemics
January 26, 2023
12 Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members are among the 70 scientists from 29 institutions participating in 13 project teams to collaborate on basic research targeted at preparedness for future emerging pathogens that could threaten human health. -
In Memory of Dr. Krishna V. Shenoy
January 21, 2023
Dr. Krishna Shenoy, the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and a Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering, and a long time member of and friend to Stanford Bio-X, will be remembered for his passion for innovative science, supporting students and colleagues, and his immense impact on the Stanford community. -
Apply for the 2023 Stanford Bio-X, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Sarafan ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 4, 2023
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 20th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
2022-2023 RFP LIVE! Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
October 24, 2022
RFP LIVE NOW: the Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have opened its call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Apply for the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 17, 2022
Applications for the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program are due Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 8am PST! -
Novo Nordisk Foundation establishes fellowships with four top international universities
October 10, 2022
The success of the Stanford Bio-X Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowship Program with the Novo Nordisk Foundation has inspired the Foundation to expand and extend its Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, thereby enabling ambitious researchers in the natural and technical sciences and life sciences to boost their careers conducting research at one of several top international universities! -
Creating Virtual, Non-Invasive Histology in the Brain
July 30, 2022 - Nature Scientific Reports
New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and previous Bio-X Fellow Adam de la Zerda and Stanford instructor and previous Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub demonstrates 3D reconstruction of microarchitectural elements of a mouse cortex, and is able to visualize micro brain deformations and movements of neuron cells at a micron level. In the future, this technology could be used to visualize how the brain deforms over time as a response to injury or cancer growth, and highlight how the elasticity of the brain reacts to different treatments. -
Stretchable probe measures brain chemicals central to Parkinson’s, depression, and gut disease
June 1st, 2022 - by Kristin Lynn Sainani
With support from a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao, Xiaoke Chen, Aida Habtezion, James Dunn, Bianxiao Cui, Sergiu Pasca, and Yi Cui have invented NeuroString - a soft, implantable probe that can monitor fluctuations in brain chemicals, like a fitness tracker for the brain! -
Announcing the 2022 Stanford Bio-X PhD Graduate Fellows!
June 1, 2022
Stanford Bio-X is pleased to announce the 2022 cohort for the Stanford Bio-X PhD Graduate Student Fellowships. -
In less than 10 minutes, Stanford researchers isolate the rarest white blood cells
May 23, 2022 - Stanford News
Supported by a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Sindy Tang, Stephen Galli, and Kari Nadeau have developed a system to quickly isolate rare, allergen-reactive white blood cells, called basophils, using microfluidics and magnets. The new device could help revolutionize allergy diagnosis from the current slow and painful process of skin tests and oral food challenges. -
Multiparameter Longitudinal Imaging of Immune Cell Activity in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell and Checkpoint Blockade Therapies
May 12, 2022 - American Chemical Society Central Science
New research from co-lead authors Dr. Fadi El Rami and Dr. Jianghang Xie, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jianghong Rao and Robert Negrin, and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Surya Murty represents work from the laboratory of the late Dr. Sam Gambhir. The team designed a novel granzyme B activated self-assembly small molecule for the assessment of immunotherapy efficacy, and monitored its activity together with the immune cell trafficking and tumor infiltration. -
Brain plasticity promotes worsening of epileptic seizures, study finds
May 2, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
According to a new study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Juliet Knowles, John Huguenard, and Michelle Monje and Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participants Tristan Saucedo, Eleanor Frost, and Lydia Tam, a brain mechanism needed for learning explains why epileptic seizures become more frequent, but a finding in rodents offers hope for treatment. -
Anne Brunet awarded 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
April 14, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Anne Brunet was awarded the 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for her efforts to understand the mechanism of aging. -
Stanford engineers develop a simple delivery method that enhances a promising cancer treatment
April 8, 2022 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Eric Appel, Crystal Mackall, Ovijit Chaudhuri, and Jennifer Cochran, Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Caitlin Maikawa, and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipients Abigail Grosskopf, Gillie Agmon Roth, and Santiago Correa have developed a gel composed of only two ingredients that can provide a temporary, hospitable environment that helps activate modified immune cells to attack cancerous tumors. -
Pinpointing risk factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
March 15, 2022 - Hepatology Communications
New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Joshua Knowles, Euan Ashley, and Aijaz Ahmed, with Stanford Bio-X/Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Scholars Theresia Schnurr and Johanne Justesen, investigates genetic predisposition and unhealthy lifestyle, known risk factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, to determine whether the genetic risk is modified by physical activity, muscular fitness, and/or adiposity. -
Scientists find long-elusive structure of key cellular-signaling molecule
March 10, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Christopher Garcia, with co-lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Caleb Glassman, have discovered the structure of a critical cellular-signaling molecule that has long eluded researchers. The finding may lead to new therapies for cancers and autoimmune diseases. -
Cancer drugs might be able to target tuberculosis, study finds
March 8, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Angelo, Purvesh Khatri, Niaz Banaei, Matthijs van de Rijn, and Sean Bendall, with Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Alea Delmastro, have found that tuberculosis lesions in the lungs have high levels of proteins that suppress the immune system. Cancer drugs that target these proteins could be used to fight the bacterial infection. -
A nanoscale look at coronavirus infection
March 1, 2022 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members W. E. Moerner and Stanley Qi and co-first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Jiarui Wang used super-resolution microscopy to uncover new details about the location of viral molecules in a cell after coronavirus infection. -
'Protein circuits' move a step closer to cell-to-cell communication
February 18, 2022 - Stanford Engineering
A new platform from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and former Bio-X Fellow Xiaojing Gao enables the circuits to release the proteins from the cell or display them on the cell surface, potentially opening up new opportunities in synthetic biology. -
Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity
January 21, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nirao Shah and Karl Deisseroth, with Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Grace Wang, found more than 1,000 gene-activation differences between female and male mice’s brains, plus more than 600 between females in different stages of their reproductive cycle. -
Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators
January 21, 2022 - Stanford Engineering
Zhenan Bao, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices. -
Two antibodies synergize in triple whammy to pediatric cancers, study finds
January 13, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Robert Majzner, Crystal Mackall, Carolyn Bertozzi, Ravindra Majeti, Julien Sage, Irving Weissman, Heike Daldrup-Link, Jennifer Cochran, Michelle Monje, and Jose Vilches-Moure, Stanford Bio-X Fellows Payton Marshall and Jack Silberstein, Stanford Bio-X Genentech Postdoc Fellow Anna Geraghty, and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Louise Kiru have discovered that two anti-cancer antibodies have a much stronger effect against pediatric nerve-cell and bone cancers in mice than either one alone.