January 7, 2026
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 23rd annual competition for Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellowships.
January 6, 2026
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 13th Round of the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program!
December 8, 2025
Andreas Tolias, a Professor in the Stanford Department of Ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute, as well as a Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center resident faculty member, is a senior author on the publication in Nature Electronics. Fabricated as a single chip, the new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today’s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces, offering an opportunity for more efficacious treatment of a number of neurological conditions.
September 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
Developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao, James Dunn, Julia Kaltschmidt, and Xiaoke Chen, with co-authors Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipients Alex Abramson, Ryan Hamnett, Samuel Root, Weilai Yu, Yuanwen Jiang, Jinxing Li, and Weichen Wang, and co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Muhammad Khatib, Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellow Eric Zhao, and Shiyuan Wei, NeuroString is a hair-thin multichannel biosensor and stimulator with promising potential applications in drug delivery, nerve stimulation, smart fabrics, and more. The work was initially launched by a 2018 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Closed-loop neurochemical sensing and modulation system for treating psychiatric disorders.
October 20, 2025 - Stanford Medicine News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker led a clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, in which people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs. This work was initially launched by a 2008 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis.
November 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
In a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Seung Kim, Judith Shizuru, and Everett Meyer, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Preksha Bhagchandani, a gentle dual-transplant approach cured or prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice. The discovery could also open a new path for treating autoimmune diseases and improving organ transplants.
November 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg, with first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Handuo Shi and co-author Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Daniel Newton, have found that common medications can unsettle the gut microbiome. Predicting these changes may help scientists design treatments that reduce side effects.
November 17, 2025
Zhuokun Ding, Stelios Papadopoulos, and Paul Fahey of Dr. Andreas Tolias’s lab, in the Andreas Tolias lab from the Department of Opthalmology, have won an Aspirational Neuroscience Award at this year’s Society for Neuroscience Conference!
June 5, 2025 - Stanford Medicine News
Stanford Bio-X and Clark Center building resident Oscar Abilez, with co-lead author Dr. Huaxiao Yang, co-author previous Stanford Bio-X Fellow Kitchener Wilson, and Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ioannis Karakikes, Gary Peltz, Christopher Zarins, and Joseph Wu, developed a way to create the first heart and liver organoids that generate their own blood vessels, possibly paving the way for organoid-based regenerative therapies.
May 1, 2025 - Stanford News
A new initiative led by Stanford Bio-X unites all seven Stanford schools to integrate research, education, and innovation for a healthier, more sustainable food future. At the kickoff symposium, researchers discussed topics including optimal diets, climate resilience, and AI.
