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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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. -
Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity
January 21, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nirao Shah and Karl Deisseroth, with Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Grace Wang, found more than 1,000 gene-activation differences between female and male mice’s brains, plus more than 600 between females in different stages of their reproductive cycle. -
Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators
January 21, 2022 - Stanford Engineering
Zhenan Bao, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices. -
Two antibodies synergize in triple whammy to pediatric cancers, study finds
January 13, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Robert Majzner, Crystal Mackall, Carolyn Bertozzi, Ravindra Majeti, Julien Sage, Irving Weissman, Heike Daldrup-Link, Jennifer Cochran, Michelle Monje, and Jose Vilches-Moure, Stanford Bio-X Fellows Payton Marshall and Jack Silberstein, Stanford Bio-X Genentech Postdoc Fellow Anna Geraghty, and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Louise Kiru have discovered that two anti-cancer antibodies have a much stronger effect against pediatric nerve-cell and bone cancers in mice than either one alone. -
Apply for the 2022 Stanford Bio-X, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Stanford ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 5, 2022
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 19th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Submit a Letter of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program!
January 4, 2022
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 10th Round of the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program. -
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.