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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Stanford bioengineers improve upon football mouthguard that senses head impacts
June 19, 2014 - Stanford University
A device developed by Stanford Bio-X scientists could one day provide real-time measurements of the head impacts sustained by football players. -
New Stanford blood test identifies heart-transplant rejection earlier than biopsy can
June 18, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Stanford Bio-X affiliate Steven Quake finds elevated levels of donor-derived DNA in the blood of heart transplant recipients can accurately diagnose organ rejection. -
Bio-X celebrates tenth kids science day
June 17, 2014 - The Dish
Bio-X labs introduce kids to the fun of science at the tenth annual kids science day. -
Vast genetic diversity among Mexicans found in large-scale study
June 12, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Some of Mexico’s indigenous groups are as genetically different from one another as Europeans from Chinese, finds Bio-X affiliate member Carlos Bustamante. Cosmopolitan Mexicans reflect these differences, which affect biomedical traits. -
Stanford Bio-X announces the 2014 graduate fellows
June 5, 2014
Stanford Bio-X has selected 21 graduate students to participate in the next round of its three-year fellowship program. -
Coaxing iPS cells to become more specialized prior to transplantation cuts rejection risk, study shows
May 30, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joseph Wu discovered a way of reducing the risk that the body will reject therapies developed from stem cells. -
Organs in a dish help pinpoint cancer-causing mutations
May 28, 2014 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scope blog entry describes work by Bio-X affiliated member Calvin Kuo. -
On alert: Study identifies cell-cycle phase that primes stem cells for action
May 25, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Tom Rando discovered a way that stem cells go on alert, readying themselves to respond to injury. -
Discovery could pave way to new treatment for rare jaw tumor
May 25, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty discovered mutations that underly a rare tumor of the jaw. -
Stanford's big data conference: How 1s and 0s are advancing medicine
May 23, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Big Data symposium features talks and discussions by Executive Committee member Lloyd Minor and Bio-X affiliated faculty members Julie Salzman, Michael Snyder, and Atul Butte and Clark Center faculty member Stephen Quake. -
Stanford researchers discover immune system's rules of engagement
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Christopher Garcia discovered how some immune cells recognize invaders. -
Solving big questions requires big computation
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affilated faculty make use of Stanford's computing resources to answer big questions in science. -
Listening in on the Ras pathway identifies new target for cancer therapy
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliated members Julien Sage and Or Gozani found a new protein that could be useful for developing cancer therapies. -
Matthew Scott to become president of Carnegie Institution for Science
May 19, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X Seed Grant Committee member and Clark Center faculty member Matthew Scott elected as president of Carnegie Institution for Science. -
Stanford engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips in the body
May 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ada Poon developed a wireless system that can safely transmit energy to medical devices in the body. -
FDA launches Stanford-UCSF partnership to improve drug development and regulation
May 19, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Russ Altman and other Stanford faculty in collaboration with UCSF. -
Peril posed by gene mutations often depends on degree to which allele expressed, study finds
May 19, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Stephen Montgomery and Jin BIlly Li found that the effects of a disease-associated gene depend on how much protein is made. -
Stanford research leads to new understanding of how cells grow and shrink
May 15, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member KC Huang uses new technique to understand how bacterial cells grow. -
Male infertility linked to mortality in study
May 15, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Michael Eisenberg found that men with some forms of infertility appear to be at increased risk of dying early. -
Two Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 9, 2014 - Stanford Report
Award bestowed on two Stanford faculty members, including Bio-X affiliate Joseph Puglisi. -
Monitoring RNA levels in blood samples yields dynamic picture of fetal development, disease, say researchers
May 5, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Feature on research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Stephen Quake and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Geoffrey Kerchner. -
Big Data in Biomedicine conference set for May 21-23 at Stanford
April 29, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Major conference will feature input from Bio-X Executive Committee member Lloyd Minor, Bio-X affiliated faculty Euan Ashley, Sylvia Plevritis, Michael Snyder, and Michael McConnell, and Clark Center faculty members Stephen Quake and Paul Yock. -
Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain
April 28, 2014 - Stanford Report
Technology developed by Clark Center faculty members Kwabena Boahen and Krishna Shenoy. -
Some corals adjusting to rising ocean temperatures, Stanford researchers say
April 24, 2014 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Palumbi. -
Stanford scientists observe brain activity in real time
April 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Mark Schnitzer and Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Lin, funded by a Bio-X Seed Grant awarded in 2010. -
Earth Day Installment in Clark Center
April 22, 2014
Earth Day installment in Nexus Café by Stanford's Richard James raises eco-awareness at the Clark Center. -
Stanford team makes switching off cells with light as easy as switching them on
April 22, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Feature on research conducted by Clark Center faculty member and Bio-X affiliate Karl Deisseroth. -
Stanford research shows benefits of crystallization
April 18, 2014 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Bio-X Affiliated faculty Zhenan Bao. -
Scientists develop 'playbook' for reverse engineering tissue
April 16, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center PI Stephen Quake. -
Seung Kim awarded prestigious Ho-Am Prize in Medicine
April 16, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Award bestowed on Bio-X affiliated faculty member Seung Kim.