Ellen Kuhl named director of Stanford Bio-X
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
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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Regeneration might be a whole-body affair
July 21, 2023 - Stanford News
In certain organisms, injuries on one part of the body can induce a healing response in another. New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Bo Wang and James Ferrell, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yuhang Fan and co-author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Xinzhi Zou suggests this whole-body response isn’t a side effect: it’s the main feature. -
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. -
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. -
Scientists get a new view of digestion
May 23, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members KC Huang, David Relman, Susan Holmes, and George Triadafilopoulos, with co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Rebecca Culver, Dr. Dari Shalon, Dr. Jessica A. Grembi, and Dr. Jacob Folz, as well as co-authors Stanford Bio-X Fellows Andrés Aranda-Díaz and Handuo Shi, have created a new device to sample the insides of the small intestine, including bile and bacteria. -
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! -
Padded helmet cover shows little protection for football players
March 28, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Camarillo, Michael Zeineh, and Gerald Grant, with Stanford Bio-X Travel Award Recipient Xianghao Zhan and co-first authors Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Ashlyn Callan, found that a foam cap that fits over football helmets seemed to reduce the force of blows in lab experiments — but not on the field. -
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. -
Five Stanford faculty receive NSF CAREER Award
February 2, 2022 - Stanford Report
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gheorghe Chistol, Polly Fordyce, and Julia Palacios and two additional Stanford faculty received NSF CAREER awards. These grants support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as leaders in integrating education and research.