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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2021-2022 RFP LIVE! Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
November 22, 2021
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! -
Four professors elected to the National Academy of Medicine
October 20, 2021 - Stanford Report
The Stanford faculty honored include Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Maximilian Diehn and Michelle Monje, as well as Mary Hawn and Carla Pugh. -
Apply for the 2022 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 18, 2021
Applications for the 2022 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program are due Wednesday, January 19, 2022! -
Stanford neuroscientist’s ‘assembloids’ pave the way for innovative brain research
October 1, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty and Clark Center building resident Sergiu Pasca has led the development of a novel brain research tool for understanding diseases of brain development. -
Neuroscientist Michelle Monje awarded MacArthur 'genius grant'
September 28, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member, neuroscientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje is being recognized for her work to understand healthy brain development and create therapies for a group of lethal brain tumors. -
Dr. Karl Deisseroth Wins Lasker Award
September 24, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty Dr. Karl Deisseroth's discoveries regarding microbial light-activated molecules led to his development of a way to manipulate selected neurons in living animals to observe changes in their behavior. -
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Kristy Red-Horse, Michelle Monje, and Rhiju Das announced as Howard Hughes investigators
September 23, 2021 - Stanford Report
Three Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members, Kristy Red-Horse, Michelle Monje, and Rhiju Das, join 21 other Stanford faculty as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. The seven-year term frees faculty to pursue the most innovative biomedical research. -
IBRO-Kemali Prize Awarded to Dr. Sergiu P. Pasca
September 20, 2021
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty Sergiu Paşca has received the 2022 IBRO-Dargut and Milena Kemali International Prize for Research in the field of Basic and Clinical Neurosciences. -
Researchers create 'Olympian' mice by stabilizing brain connections involved in skill learning
September 7, 2021 - Wu Tsai Neuro
Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X Carla Shatz and Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jun Ding, with lead author Eddy Albarran, turned mice into “super-learners” by stabilizing the new connections formed while animals learned a tricky new movement, which could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. -
Stanford machine learning algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever before
August 26, 2021 - Stanford News
With support from a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant and a Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellowship, Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ron Dror and Rhiju Das and Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Stephan Eismann have developed machine learning methods that accurately predict the 3D shapes of drug targets and other important biological molecules, even when only limited data is available. -
Stanford engineers design an accurate wearable calorie burn counter
July 13, 2021 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Scott Delp, Steven Collins, and Mykel Kochenderfer, with graduate student Patrick Slade, have made a system made with two inexpensive sensors proves to be more accurate than smartwatches for measuring calories burned during activity – and the instructions for making the system yourself are available for free online. -
Sergiu Pasca Receives the Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society!
July 9, 2021
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty Sergiu Paşca has received the 2021 Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Patient-oriented Clinical Investigation from the American Philosophical Society. -
Using nature’s miracle bugs to help feed the world
July 6, 2021 - Stanford Engineering
It takes massive energy to make nitrogen fertilizer, but Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Elizabeth Sattely and first author Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Tim Schnabel have shown that modified bacteria can do it at room temperature. -
A neuronal trigger for cancer in mice
May 26, 2021 - Nature
New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michelle Monje, Jeffrey Goldberg, John Huguenard, and Erin Gibson, with Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Jared Hysinger, finds that light-induced activation of neuronal cells in the retina stimulates the formation of optic-nerve tumors in cancer-prone mice, revealing a potential role of neuronal activity in cancer initiation. -
Announcing the 2021 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellows!
May 25, 2021
Stanford Bio-X is pleased to announce the 2021 cohort for the Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Stanford bioengineers develop algorithm to compare cells across species
May 25, 2021 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Bo Wang and Stephen Quake, first author Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow (Anonymous Donor) and Stanford Bio-X SIGF Alec Tarashansky, and Lavidge and McKinley Interdisciplinary Fellow and Stanford Bio-X SIGF Margarita Khariton created an algorithm to identify similar cell types from species – including fish, mice, flatworms and sponges – that have diverged for hundreds of millions of years, which could help fill in gaps in our understanding of evolution. -
Stanford Bio-X Fellow Mira Moufarrej wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
May 13, 2021 - Stanford Today
Mira Moufarrej, a Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow and a graduate student in bioengineering, has been awarded a 2021 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventions related to prenatal and maternal health. Congratulations, Mira! -
Team science award recognizes eight pediatric cancer researchers
April 29, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The American Association for Cancer Research’s Team Science Award recognizes the scientific team judged to be most accomplished in all facets of cancer research. The eight Stanford Medicine scientists being honored are Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Crystal Mackall, Jennifer Cochran, Kara Davis, Robert Majzner, and Michelle Monje and Sabine Heitzeneder, Sneha Ramakrishna, and Elena Sotillo-Piñeiro. -
Study helps Latino children manage obesity over two years
April 29, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A three-year trial led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Darrell Wilson, of a multifaceted intervention for managing obesity in low-income, Latino children, showed promising results over two years. -
Milestone stem cell transplant helps child beat rare disease
April 28, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A revolutionary technique, pioneered by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Alice Bertaina, helps cure 9-year-old girl who was Stanford Children's Health's 1,000th stem cell transplant patient. -
Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 27, 2021 - Stanford Today
Six Stanford University researchers are among the 120 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and Clark Center resident faculty Judith Frydman and Tirin Moore and Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research Kam Moler. The six Stanford faculty are now part of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. -
Stanford researchers reveal that homes in floodplains are overvalued by nearly $44 billion
April 26, 2021 - Stanford News
A new sort of optical device from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Shanhui Fan allows engineers to change the frequencies of individual photons, putting new capabilities in engineers’ hands. -
Stanford study dives deeper into genetic differences between modern and archaic humans
April 26, 2021 - Stanford News
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Dmitri Petrov and Hunter Fraser examined 14,000 genetic differences between modern humans and our most recent ancestors at a new level of detail. They found that differences in gene activation – not just genetic code – could underlie evolution of the brain and vocal tract. -
With new optical device, Stanford engineers can fine tune the color of light
April 23, 2021 - Stanford News
A new sort of optical device from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Shanhui Fan allows engineers to change the frequencies of individual photons, putting new capabilities in engineers’ hands. -
Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeletons can greatly increase walking speed
April 22, 2021 - Stanford News
In lab tests, researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Steven Collins found that an optimized ankle exoskeleton system increased participants’ walking speed by about 40 percent compared with their regular speed. The researchers hope someday to help restore walking speed in older adults. -
Ten Stanford faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 22, 2021 - Stanford Today
Congratulations to Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and Clark Center resident faculty Axel Brunger and Tirin Moore, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao, Robert Byer, Fei-Fei Li, and Teresa Meng, and longtime friend of Bio-X John Etchemendy on election to the AAAS! A total of ten Stanford faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies. -
Researchers find drug that enables healing without scarring
April 22, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Longaker, Geoffrey Gurtner, Gerlinde Wernig, and Peter Lorenz have identified the mechanisms of scar formation in skin and demonstrated in mice a way to make wounds heal with normal skin instead of scar tissue. -
Incorporating touch into brain-computer interfaces - Stanford Bio-X Fellowship
Incorporating touch into brain-computer interfaces: A Stanford Bio-X Fellowship supported Mona M. Burgess Fellow and Stanford Bio-X SIGF Fellow Darrel Deo's work with Dr. Allison Okamura, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Krishna Shenoy, Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering, and Dr. Jaimie Henderson, John and Jene Blume - Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor, Professor of Neurosurgery, to illuminate the role of haptic feedback in intracortical brain-computer interfaces!
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Restoring sight with a retinal prosthesis - Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant
Restoring sight with a retinal prosthesis: Dr. Daniel Palanker, Director of HEPL and Professor of Ophthalmology and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, share the progress of their Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant!
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Understanding freezing of gait in Parkinson's Disease - Stanford Bio-X Fellowship
Understanding freezing of gait in Parkinson's Disease: A Stanford Bio-X Fellowship has supported Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Johanna O'Day, who works with Dr. Scott Delp in Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart in Neurology & Neurological Sciences on understanding freezing of gait in Parkinson's Disease patients. Johanna is passionate about transformative interdisciplinary research and making an impact!