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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DNA left by ocean animals provides rare glimpse of marine ecosystems
June 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Ocean animals leave behind DNA in shed cells, tissues, scales and feces. Scientists including Bio-X affiliate Alexandria Boehm have shown these genetic clues can be used as forensic markers to survey marine life in complex deep-water environments. -
Stanford inventor designs low-cost science tools for the world
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash designs low-cost scientific instruments, including a $1 microscope made of folded paper, a 20-cent blood centrifuge and a $5 programmable chemistry set made from a toy hand-crank music box. -
Heart patients’ shingles risk tied to glucose-gobbling immune cells
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
People with coronary artery disease face an elevated risk for shingles because aberrant immune cells dial down the body’s immune response to viral pathogens, Stanford research from Bio-X affiliates Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy shows. -
Inflammatory molecule essential to muscle regeneration in mice
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Helen Blau and Scott Delp and Travel Awardees Adelaida Palla and Nora Yucel have found that a metabolite stimulates mouse muscle stem cells to proliferate after injury. Anti-inflammatory drugs block its production and inhibit muscle repair. -
In gene expression, separating the gold from the dross
June 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Purvesh Khatri has developed a method to evaluate the expression of human genes in response to different diseases or conditions, which could identify ways to diagnose tuberculosis or predict which patients will likely reject organ transplants. -
Mouse lemur could serve as ideal model for human disease
June 7, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Mark Krasnow and Megan Albertelli have identified more than 20 mouse lemurs with genetic traits for conditions such as heart disease and eye problems, making the tiny primates potentially useful for understanding diseases in humans. -
Police officers speak less respectfully to black residents than to white residents, researchers find
June 5, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Dan Jurafsky and other Stanford researchers detected racial disparities in police officers’ speech in body camera footage from Oakland Police. -
Do you feel like we do? Psychologists examine how culture guides giving
June 1, 2017 - Stanford News
New research by Stanford psychologists including Bio-X affiliate Brian Knutson analyzes cultural effects on giving, finding that people are willing to offer more money to others who display similar emotional expressions. -
Karl Deisseroth wins 4 million euros Fresenius Research Prize
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist, bioengineer and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Karl Deisseroth will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression. -
Technique pinpoints the ‘partners in crime’ of cancer genes
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Targeting backup biological pathways used by cancers can lead to more efficient drug development and less-toxic therapies. Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Ravi Majeti, David Dill, and Erinn Rankin have developed a new way to identify these pathways. -
Fitness trackers accurately measure heart rate but not calories burned
May 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research from Bio-X affiliates Euan Ashley and Trevor Hastie and Bio-X Fellow Anna Shcherbina into the accuracy of 7 wristband activity monitors showed that 6 out of 7 measured heart rate within 5%, but none measured energy expenditure well. -
Scientists make strides in hunt for genetic causes of heart disease
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford cardiologist Tim Assimes and a consortium of scientists including Bio-X affiliate Tom Quertermous pinpointed 15 newly identified genomic regions associated with heart disease. -
Stanford scholars, researchers discuss key ethical questions self-driving cars present
May 22, 2017 - Stanford News
Self-driving technology presents ethical challenges and questions. Many at Stanford tackling this issue, including Bio-X affiliate Margaret Levi, offer perspectives. -
How computers are learning to understand language
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Chris Manning discusses the evolution of computational linguistics and where it's headed next. He was recently named the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning. -
‘Special K’ finds market as costly off-label option to treat mental disorders
May 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
As research from Bio-X affiliate Alan Schatzberg and others shows that the hallucinogen is a potentially powerful treatment for intractable mental disorders, and academics continue to debate its safety, private clinics offer the drug to patients now. -
Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of a key industrial catalyst
May 18, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Robert Sinclair finds that nanoscale stretching or compressing boosts the performance of ceria, a material used in catalytic converters and clean-energy tech. -
Price of protection: Immune-gene version, great at combating leprosy, is not without drawbacks
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Peter Parham examined a particular version of a gene which encodes for an important cell-surface protein that’s a key player in our immune response. -
Don’t think of heart disease as inevitable, Stanford expert says
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles argues that although many treat heart disease as though it is inevitable, this is not the case. -
Cancer therapy may work in unexpected way
May 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
An antibody to the cell receptor PD-1 may launch a two-pronged assault on cancer by initiating attacks by both T cells and macrophages, a Stanford study from Bio-X affiliate Irv Weissman has found. -
Genetic patterns could aid scientists and police, but raise privacy concerns, Stanford scientists say
May 15, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Noah Rosenberg finds that new way of connecting distinct sets of DNA markers could help police and scientists, but it may raise privacy concerns as well. -
A look at cancer epigenetics
May 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Howard Chang is the co-creator of “ATAC-seq” (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing), a next-generation test for scanning DNA to assess which of its genes are activated. -
Stanford researchers develop crowdsourcing software to convene rapid, on-demand 'flash organizations'
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein's research addresses flash organizations, which enable anyone to assemble an organization and pursue complex, open-ended goals. -
Stanford engineers create experimental technology to monitor and maintain drug levels in the body
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Technology from Bio-X affiliate H. Tom Soh can monitor and maintain the drug levels in animals' bloodstreams, which could help deliver optimal doses of life-saving drugs. -
Team brings quantum computing closer to reality with new materials
May 9, 2017 - Stanford News
Quantum computing could outsmart current computing if scientists figure out how to make it practical. Bio-X affiliates Jelena Vuckovic, Nicholas Melosh, and Steve Chu are investigating new materials that could become the basis for such an advance. -
Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky ponders the best and worst of us, plus free will
May 8, 2017 - Stanford News
With the publication of his latest book, Bio-X affiliate Robert Sapolsky tackles the best and worst of human behavior and the nature of justice in the absence of free will. -
Scientists crowdsource autism data to learn where resource gaps exist
May 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate Dennis Wall have launched a crowdsourcing project to pinpoint areas across the globe that have few autism experts, leading to delayed care for kids who live there, and to find ways to fill them. -
Stanford study provides new understanding of breast growth disorders
May 4, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Philip Beachy and Michael Clarke have discovered a new way that the GLI2 gene impacts breast development: they found that GLI2 activity helps control mammary stem cells in mice. -
Faculty and students at Stanford argue for increased study of games and interactive media
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Faculty, staff and students Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Dan Schwartz, are pushing to embrace and pursue the study of games and interactive media. -
Stanford researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Erin Mordecai finds that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases is 29 degrees C, which could help predict disease outbreaks. -
5 Questions: Samuel So on stamping out viral hepatitis in the U.S.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Liver disease expert, leading anti-hepatitis campaigner, and Bio-X affiliate Samuel So recently discussed what it will take to rub out viral hepatitis, which causes more than 20,000 U.S. deaths annually.