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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Engineering cells for immune tolerance - Stanford Bio-X Fellowship
Engineering cells for immune tolerance: A Stanford Bio-X Fellowship has supported Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Payton Marshall's work with Dr. Paul Bollyky, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology & Immunology, and Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H and Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences, to conduct groundbreaking research at the interface of immunology and chemistry!
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Helping children with cardiovascular defects - Stanford Bio-X Fellowship
Helping children with cardiovascular defects: Dr. Alison Marsden, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Melody Dong, discuss how Bio-X has supported their research using fluid dynamics simulations to study blood flow in pulmonary arterial hypertension due to congenital heart defects. They hope that this work will lead to new treatments for children with pulmonary hypertension!
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Three faculty members elected fellows at American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
March 24, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Drew Endy, Michael Moseley and Fan Yang have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s college of fellows, which is composed of distinguished medical and biological engineers. -
Stanford Bio-X welcomes back Josh Makower to Clark Center as the new Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign!
March 23, 2021 - Stanford News
Josh Makower, MD, MBA, an industry leader in health care technology, will return to the Clark Center, home of Stanford Bio-X, to become the director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign on Aug. 1. Makower will assume the role from the center’s founder, Paul Yock, MD, professor of medicine and of bioengineering. Yock, who holds the Martha Meier Weiland Professorship in the School of Medicine, will remain closely associated with the program in a new, more limited role. -
Understanding the interplay of cell volume regulation, ECM viscoelasticity and the response to inflammation - Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant
Understanding the interplay of cell volume regulation, ECM viscoelasticity and the response to inflammation: Drs. Nidhi Bhutani, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Ovijit Chaudhuri, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discuss their Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant supported collaboration to develop new interdisciplinary treatments for osteoathritis.
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New genetic comparison technique developed at Stanford enables meticulous study of evolution of the human brain and face
March 17, 2021 - Stanford News
New Nature paper supported by Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Sergiu Pasca and Hunter Fraser, with Stanford Bio-X Fellow Rachel Agoglia: In separate studies, researchers compared gene regulation related to brain and face development in humans and chimpanzees using a new technique. In both cases, they discovered new genetic differences between these species. -
Stanford study reveals growing neurons gain an edge by making connections
March 11, 2021 - Stanford News
A first of its kind study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Liqun Luo and Surya Ganguli reveals dynamic interactions between dendritic growth and synaptic connectivity in the brain cells of developing mice. -
New Stanford study finds reading skills among young students stalled during the pandemic
March 9, 2021 - Stanford News
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Benjamin Domingue and Jason Yeatman find that reading fluency among second- and third-graders in the U.S. is roughly 30 percent behind what would be expected in a typical year. -
Inside the brain: How cellphones lead to distracted driving
March 1, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
We know that cellphones distract drivers. But now, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Allan Reiss and Hadi Hosseini have brain imagery and driving metrics to show how. -
Stanford Medicine surpasses a half-million COVID-19 tests
February 24, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Medicine, one of the first medical centers in the country to conduct clinical tests for COVID-19, has remained at the cutting edge of coronavirus detection, thanks in part to work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Benjamin Pinsky. -
Stanford Medicine launches in-house service for whole genome sequencing
February 11, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Euan Ashley and Steve Quake have contributed to Stanford Medicine's new service, which harnesses the power of genome sequencing to identify the source of diseases and help target treatments. -
Stanford model accounts for behavioral changes during epidemics
February 10, 2021 - Stanford News
A new model of disease spread from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marcus Feldman describes how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact – and vice versa. The result is a complex and dynamic epidemic trajectory. -
Less is more? Focused genetic testing recommended for breast and ovarian cancers
February 10, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Ovarian cancer genetic testing is underused and large gene panels lead to uncertain results, particularly for non-white patients, a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Berek finds. -
Research could lead to injectable gels that release medicines over time
February 4, 2021 - Stanford News
Injecting patients with a gel that would dissolve over several months could replace the need to administer daily or weekly shots. But to make this possible, researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Eric Appel and Jian Qin and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award Recipient Anthony Yu first had to create a Jello-like substance that could defy one of the fundamental laws of nature. -
A cancer treatment that tackles heart disease?
February 1, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A Stanford-developed anti-cancer therapy from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nicholas Leeper, Irv Weissmann, and Andrei Iagaru, currently in clinical trials, may also reduce vascular inflammation in heart disease. -
Stanford researchers observe decision making in the brain – and influence the outcomes
January 25, 2021 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members William Newsome and Paul Nuyujukian and Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident Krishna Shenoy have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice. -
Data from twins suggests that gut bacteria are important in food allergies
January 22, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A study led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Kari Nadeau of twins with and without food allergies has uncovered differences in the fecal bacteria of allergic and non-allergic individuals. -
Stanford Medicine launches large-scale surveillance of coronavirus variants in Bay Area
January 21, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Benjamin Pinsky are screening diagnostic samples to identify known coronavirus variants circulating in the Bay Area, including those from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. -
Stanford researchers develop a new way to forecast beach water quality
January 21, 2021 - Stanford News
Using water samples and environmental data gathered over 48 hours or less, Stanford engineers led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Alexandria Boehm develop a new predictive technique for forecasting coastal water quality, a critical step in protecting public health and the ocean economy. -
Study reveals immune driver of brain aging
January 20, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Scientists led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Katrin Andreasson, Frank Longo, Irv Weissman, Daria Mochly-Rosen, and Ravindra Majeti have identified a key factor in mental aging and shown that it might be prevented or reversed by fixing a glitch in the immune system’s front-line soldiers. -
Excised tonsils aid study of COVID-19 vaccines, the flu and more
January 19, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Davis, Calvin Kuo, Scott Boyd, Bill Robinson and Peter Kim transformed tonsils into immunology labs in a dish, aiding research to develop vaccines for COVID-19, the flu and other diseases. -
Researchers discover long-sought mechanism behind worst cases of a common blood disorder
January 19, 2021 - SLAC News Center
G6PD deficiency affects about 400M people worldwide and can pose serious health risks. Uncovering the causes of the most severe cases could finally lead to treatments. Research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Soichi Wakatsuki and Daria Mochly-Rosen has identified one of the molecular mechanisms behind them. -
Engineers find a way to control chemical catalysts with sculpted light
January 15, 2021 - Stanford News
Using state-of-the-art fabrication and imaging, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jennifer Dionne watched the consequences of adding sculpted light to a catalyst during a chemical transformation. This work could inform more efficient – and potentially new – forms of catalysis. -
Stanford researchers and others reveal pervasive health threats of unregulated battery recycling
January 14, 2021 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby's research group found that a remediation and public education effort at an abandoned battery recycling facility in Bangladesh eliminated most lead soil contamination, but levels of the toxic metal in children living near the site did not decrease nearly as much. The discrepancy reveals the scope of other lead exposure sources and the challenge they present to public health. -
Physicists find new state of matter in a one-dimensional quantum gas
January 14, 2021 - Stanford News
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, physicists led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Benjamin Lev produced an ultra-stable one-dimensional quantum gas with never-before-seen “scar” states – a feature that could someday be useful for securing quantum information. -
Predicting premature birth in low-resource settings
January 12, 2021 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A blood test that predicts if a baby will be born prematurely works well for pregnant women in developing countries, a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nima Aghaeepour, Martin Angst, Steve Quake, Michael Snyder, David Stevenson, Gary Shaw, Gary Darmstadt, and Virginia Winn and Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Mira Moufarrej found. -
The shifting burden of wildfires in the United States
January 12, 2021 - Stanford News
Wildfire smoke will be one of the most widely felt health impacts of climate change throughout the country, but U.S. clean air regulations are not equipped to deal with it. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marshall Burke and other Stanford experts discuss the causes and impacts of wildfire activity and its rapid acceleration in the American west. -
Climate change has caused billions of dollars in flood damages, according to Stanford researchers
January 11, 2021 - Stanford News
Flooding has caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage in the U.S. over the past three decades. Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marshall Burke found that 36 percent of the costs of flooding in the U.S. from 1988 to 2017 were a result of intensifying precipitation, consistent with predictions of global warming. -
Stem cells use a piston-like engine to ‘drive’ to their destinations
January 11, 2021 - Stanford Engineering
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ovijit Chaudhuri and Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Hong-pyo Lee have discovered the surprising propulsion system that enables these regenerative cells to migrate through surrounding tissue to repair damage. -
Stanford researchers combine processors and memory on multiple hybrid chips to run AI on battery-powered smart devices
January 11, 2021 - Stanford News
In traditional electronics, separate chips process and store data, wasting energy as they toss data back and forth over what engineers call a “memory wall.” New algorithms from Bio-X affiliated faculty members Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong combine several energy-efficient hybrid chips to create the illusion of one mega–AI chip.