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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Musician-turned-scientist develops drug for inflammatory bowel disease
November 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Supported by Bio-X affiliates Kevin Grimes and Daria Mochly-Rosen within the SPARK program, a Stanford musicology student sets out on a new, unexpected career path as a scientist and entrepreneurial drug developer. -
Stanford designs underwater solar cells that turn captured greenhouse gases into fuel
November 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
Taking a cue from plants, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Paul McIntyre figure out how to use the sun's energy to combine CO2 with H2O to create benign chemical products. -
Measuring immune cells before surgery may help predict recovery time
November 17, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research from Bio-X affiliates Martin Angst and Garry Nolan and 2013 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Gabriela Fragiadakis finds that blood drawn before surgery, stimulated to produce an immune response, revealed patterns predicting patient outcomes. -
Tough enough: Stanford and IBM test the limits of toughness in nanocomposites
November 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Reinhold Dauskardt made materials stronger and more flexible by slipping polystyrene molecules between layers of composites. -
Needed: More women in data science
November 12, 2015 - Stanford Report
A gathering on big data turned the usual gender ratio of science conferences on its head: Bio-X Executive Committee member Persis Drell, and Bio-X affiliates Margot Gerritsen and Fei-Fei Li, advocate for more women in the data science field. -
Dangerous liaison: Bacteria, viruses in league
November 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Serendipity spurs the discovery, under Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Bollyky and 2015 Stanford Bio-X SIGF Johanna Sweere, of a curious collusion between bacterial pathogens and viruses that infect them. -
New "tricorder" technology might be able to "hear" tumors growing
November 9, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new technology developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty Amin Arbabian and Butrus Khuri-Yakub has promise to safely find buried explosives and maybe spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound. -
Three Stanford professors honored by Breakthrough Prize Foundation
November 8, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty Karl Deisseroth has been awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his pioneering work in optogenetics. Stanford Physicists Xiao-Liang Qi and Leonardo Senatore won New Horizons in Physics Prizes. -
Story of family's tumor donation inspires more donations
November 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With the donated tissue, a Stanford team under Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje has created the first cell line and mouse model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a deadly tumor. -
Stanford researchers identify potential security hole in genomic data-sharing network
October 29, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Hackers with access to a person’s genome might find out if that genome is in an international network of disease databases, Bio-X affiliate Carlos Bustamante finds. -
Dean Lloyd Minor on his vision for Stanford Medicine
October 28, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Podcast interview with Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Bio-X Executive Committee member Lloyd Minor. -
Raw Data podcast analyzes consequences of big data, cyber-technologies
October 27, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford's new Raw Data podcast, featuring Bio-X affiliates Michael Snyder and Sylvia Plevritis, opens a conversation about how big data and networked technologies are changing communities, the economy, politics and human behavior. -
Green Button: the promise of personalizing medical practice guidelines
October 26, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
For most patients, treatment guidelines force clinicians to rely on educated guesswork. Advances in computation, data processing and telecommunication, including work by Bio-X affiliate Nigam Shah, may be about to change that. -
Precursor cells discovered that could help regrow heart arteries
October 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Irving Weissman and Kristy Red-Horse discovered, in mice, the direct progenitors to coronary artery smooth muscle cells, the important component that encases the artery and gives it strength. -
Graphene key to high-density, energy-efficient memory chips
October 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Only an atom thick, graphene is a key ingredient in three Stanford projects, under faculty including Bio-X affiliate H.-S. Philip Wong, to create data storage technologies that use nanomaterials other than standard silicon. -
Researchers suss out brain tumors, and therapy response, with new metabolic PET tracer
October 21, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The team, under Bio-X affiliates Sam Gambhir, Jianghong Rao, and Frederick Chin, capitalized on the fact that cancer cells require vast stores of cellular building blocks. -
Cardiovascular Institute awards $200,000 in seed grants
October 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford faculty who received awards include Bio-X affiliates Manish Butte, Ronald Dalman, David Camarillo, Paul Wang, François Haddad, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, David Stevens, Philip Tsao, and Sanjay Malhotra. -
Apply for the 2016 Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 16, 2015
The Bio-X Program would like to announce our call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2016. -
Engineers create artificial skin that sends pressure sensation to brain cell
October 15, 2015 - Stanford Report
Engineers under Bio-X affiliates Zhenan Bao, Bianxiao Cui, and Karl Deisseroth, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Allister McGuire and Bio-X Travel Awardee Alex Chortos, have created a plastic skin that detects pressure and delivers signals to brain cells. -
Sleep deprivation affects stem cells, reducing transplant efficiency
October 14, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Although the research, under Bio-X affiliated faculty Luis de Lecea, Irv Weissman, and H. Craig Heller, was done in mice, the findings have implications for bone marrow transplants, more properly called hematopoietic stem cell transplants, in humans. -
Elevated blood-sugar levels in pregnancy tied to baby's heart-defect risk
October 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Congenital heart defects are correlated with moderate elevation of the mother’s blood sugar during pregnancy, even if she’s not diabetic, according to a new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty Gary Shaw. -
Cancer nanotechnology center to receive more than $9 million
October 9, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The grant is the 3rd from the National Cancer Institute to fund the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence in Translational Diagnostics, directed by Bio-X affiliate Sam Gambhir and supports research by faculty including Bio-X affiliate Shan Wang. -
Seven scientists awarded grants for high-risk, high-return research
October 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The awards are designed to encourage creative research and improvements in health care. Stanford faculty who received awards include Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tony Wyss-Coray, Sanjay Basu, Jessica Feldman, Daniel Jarosz, and Manu Prakash. -
Enzyme malfunction may be why binge drinking can lead to alcoholism
October 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study in mice, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jun Ding and Lu Chen, shows that restoring the synthesis of a key brain chemical tied to inhibiting addictive behavior may help prevent alcohol cravings following binge drinking. -
Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab
September 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty Beth Pruitt and her team work to get stem cells to behave like normal heart cells, which requires tension and a specific shape. -
Plastic-eating worms may offer solution to mounting waste
September 29, 2015 - Stanford Report
An ongoing study by Stanford engineers including Bio-X affiliate Craig Criddle, in collaboration with researchers in China, shows that common mealworms can safely biodegrade various types of plastic. -
Stanford biologists crack centuries-old mystery of how cell growth triggers cell division
September 28, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers in Bio-X affiliate Jan Skotheim's lab have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how large cells grow. -
More than $500,000 for projects on pediatric cancer
September 25, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The funding from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation supports research to find cures and better treatments for pediatric cancers. Stanford faculty who will receive funding include Bio-X affiliated faculty Kathleen Sakamoto and Eric Sweet-Cordero. -
Drug disarms deadly C. difficile bacteria without destroying gut flora
September 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Matthew Bogyo, Justin Sonnenburg, and Niaz Banaei finds that a drug that blocks the intestinal pathogen without killing resident, beneficial microbes may prove superior to antibiotics. -
Distinctive contexts critical to how children learn words, study reveals
September 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Michael Frank says that children learn words best when they are used in a context that's understandable. Using words in fun, coherent activities is more important than just talking more to children.