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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Flexible, organic and biodegradable: Stanford researchers develop new wave of electronics
May 1, 2017 - Stanford News
A semiconductor developed by researchers under Bio-X affiliate Zhenan Bao, including 2013 Bio-X Fellow Allister McGuire, is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. -
Scientists assemble working human forebrain circuits in a lab dish
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Sergiu Pasca, John Huguenard, Joachim Hallmayer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Lars Steinmetz fused two stem-cell-derived neural spheroids and watched as the two sets of neurons migrated and connected. -
How doctors are battling “an unknown enemy”
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley is one of the principal investigators at the Stanford site of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), a national network created to diagnose very rare diseases. -
Scientists test links between extreme weather and climate change
April 24, 2017 - Stanford News
A new four-step “framework” from researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bala Rajaratnam aims to test the contribution of climate change to record-setting extreme weather events. -
Moving toward multi-pronged treatment for the worst childhood brain tumor
April 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michelle Monje and Joanna Wysocka suggests two potential drug targets for the pediatric brain tumor diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. -
Stanford researchers use molecular evidence to pinpoint when mammals became nocturnal
April 20, 2017 - Stanford News
In research by Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly, new genetic evidence suggests that early mammals had good night-time vision, adding to fossil and behavioral studies. -
Stanford researchers use color-coding to pinpoint locations of gut-bacterial strains
April 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Justin Sonnenburg has been able to visualize multiple bacterial strains in lab mice’s gut by making them express unique combinations of fluorescent proteins. -
Stanford undergrads win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for work combating antibiotic resistance
April 19, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford undergrads including 2016 Bio-X USRP participant Zachary Rosenthal win a national prize for their work on an antibiotic to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria. -
Study shows protein in human umbilical cord blood rejuvenates old mice’s impaired learning, memory
April 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Umbilical cord blood from human newborns boosted old mice’s brain function and performance, shows research from Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray and Martin Angst. -
Protein primes mouse stem cells to quickly repair injury
April 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Pretreatment with a stem-cell-activating protein significantly enhances healing in mice, Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando says. The approach could eventually help people going into surgery or combat heal better from injuries they sustain. -
Fibrosis reversed when ‘don’t eat me’ signal blocked
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A common signaling pathway unites diverse fibrotic diseases in humans, Bio-X affiliates Gerlinde Wernig, Irv Weissman, and Garry Nolan and 2014 USRP participant Camille Van Neste find. An antibody called anti-CD47 reverses fibrosis in mice. -
Wearable sweat sensor can diagnose cystic fibrosis, study finds
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A wearable sensor developed by Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Ron Davis can diagnose diseases by measuring molecular constituents of sweat, such as chloride ions and glucose. -
Simulation shows how transporter proteins do their work in cells
April 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Cells must continually pass molecules in and out to sustain life. Supported by a Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Ron Dror and Liang Feng have developed a computer algorithm to capture how these crucial proteins work. -
To dissolve mysteries of the cytoskeleton, Stanford researchers create new tool
April 13, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ben Barres has come up with a tool that will allow researchers to study the cytoskeleton with much greater precision than has previously been possible. -
Suppressing single protein extends life span of mice with ALS-like disease
April 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A set of experiments from Bio-X affiliate Aaron Gitler reveals that suppressing a protein called ataxin 2 dramatically extends survival and improves motor function in a mouse model of ALS. -
Cancer uses inflammatory pathways to protect itself
April 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Irv Weissman, Michael Clarke, and Nicholas Leeper have discovered that cancer cells increase production of CD47, a protein protecting them from the immune system, by recruiting molecular pathways usually used for inflammatory processes. -
Researchers at Stanford create new method for recording bird flight in 3D
April 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers in Bio-X affiliate David Lentink's lab developed a new way to record wing shape during bird flight in 3D. This high-resolution, high-speed, automated reconstruction method could be applied to any studies of movement. -
Stanford scientists have found that the brain’s navigation is more complex than previously thought
April 6, 2017 - Stanford News
Neuroscientists’ discovery of grid cells was hailed as a major discovery. But new results from Bio-X affiliates Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli and Bio-X Honorary Fellow Niru Maheswaranathan, supported by a Seed Grant, suggest the system is more complicated than anyone had guessed. -
What is sustainability? A conversation with Stanford Earth Dean Pamela Matson
April 6, 2017 - Stanford News
Dean Pamela Matson explains why sustainability efforts today are critical to meet the needs of people now and over the long term, and how Stanford has a leadership role. -
Nerve cells actively repress alternative cell fates
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A regulatory protein blocks the expression of non-neuronal genes in nerve cells, find Bio-X affiliates Marius Wernig, Thomas Südhof, and Lars Steinmetz, and Travel Awardee Cheen Euong Ang, suggesting there are many master regulators for cell types. -
Monounsaturated fats help roundworms live longer
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Roundworms storing monounsaturated fats in their guts live longer, according to Bio-X affiliate Anne Brunet. Their study links epigenetic regulation with fat metabolism, and may have implications for many species. -
Hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems for Type 1 diabetes come of age
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bruce Buckingham are testing easier ways for younger children with Type 1 diabetes to get the doses of insulin they need. -
Ultrasound and microbubbles flag malignant cancer in humans
April 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Jürgen Willmann, Sam Gambhir, and Amelie Lutz have developed tiny bubbles that bind to malignant tumors, making them visible to ultrasound imaging. -
Deep learning algorithm that could boost drug development
April 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Vijay Pande, including 2015 USRP participant Han Altae-Tran, show how an advanced form of machine learning that works off small amounts of data can be used to solve problems in drug discovery. -
Study shows how slow breathing induces tranquility
March 30, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Mark Krasnow, John Huguenard, and Liqun Luo have identified a small group of neurons that communicates goings-on in the brain’s respiratory control center to the structure responsible for generating arousal throughout the brain. -
Previously elusive targets for cancer immunotherapy identified
March 30, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A collaborative team including Bio-X affiliates Ash Alizadeh, Joshua Elias, Ron Levy, Mark Davis, and Jan Carette studied patients with mantle cell lymphoma, utilizing a novel approach to identify cancer-specific antigens. -
Team led by Sanjay Basu wins third place in data analysis contest
March 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The team, led by Bio-X affiliate Sanjay Basu, used the data to develop and validate a clinical decision score that identifies patients likely to experience benefits when undergoing intensive blood pressure treatment. -
Stanford scientists study Pavlovian conditioning in neural networks
March 22, 2017 - Stanford News
By looking at groups of neurons in the emotional center of the brain, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Mark Schnitzer elucidated how neural networks in the brain form associations, like those made famous by Ivan Pavlov. -
Stanford researchers adapt a DIY robotics kit to give STEM students tools to automate biology experiments
March 21, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Ingmar Riedel-Kruse empowers students and teachers to create inexpensive automated robotic assemblies to do biology lab work in classrooms. -
Stanford scientists find a previously unknown role for the cerebellum
March 20, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers believed that the cerebellum did little more than process our senses and control our muscles. Bio-X affiliates Liqun Luo and Mark Schnitzer have studied the most densely packed neurons in our brains to reveal that it may do much more.