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.

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
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.

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.