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.
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Report
Clark Center resident faculty and Bio-X founding faculty Steven Chu and Bio-X affiliated faculty Yi Cui bring pure lithium anode closer to reality with development of protective layer of interconnected carbon domes.
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Report
Dr. Carla Shatz, the director of Stanford Bio-X, talks about the report's recommendations and the factors that have helped Bio-X shine.
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The research teams of Bio-X affiliates Vinod Menon and Carl Feinstein find that certain brain networks in children with autism do not appear to change much when switching from a resting state to engagement with a task.
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Medicine X, presented by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lawrence Chum, will feature a broad range of themes, including mental health, the “no-smartphone” patient and the medical team of the future.
July 25, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Clark Center resident and Bio-X affiliate Dr. Sam Gambhir collaborates with Duke University and Google, planning a comprehensive initiative to understand the molecular markers that are key to health.
July 13, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In research funded in part by Bio-X, affiliated faculty members Brian Feldman and Hongjie Dai and Bio-X SIGF Fellow Bo Zhang have invented a cheap, portable, microchip-based test for diagnosing type-1 diabetes.
July 9, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate and Clark Center PI Karl Deisseroth and his team have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain.
July 3, 2014 - Stanford Report
Stanford Woods Institute announces 2014 Environmental Venture Projects, funding Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliates Scott Boyd, Sindy Tang, and Craig Criddle.
July 3, 2014 - Stanford Report
Interdisciplinary collaboration overseen by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Richard Zare, Robert Tibshirani, and Dean Felsher identifies biological signatures in cancer cells that can be traced back to the original cancer gene.
July 1, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
$7.2 million, four-year grant awarded by the NIH to Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliated faculty member Euan Ashley.
June 25, 2014 - Stanford Engineering
TedX talk on the future of bioengineering delivered by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Drew Endy.
June 24, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Dr. Gary Shaw find that women who are obese before becoming pregnant face an increased risk of delivering a very premature baby.
June 19, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Signaling activity along a single nerve tract deep within the brain predicts a living, wide-awake, freely moving animal’s tendency to socialize, finds Stanford Bio-X affiliate Karl Deisseroth.
June 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Stanford Bio-X scientists headed by Karl Deisseroth have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain.
June 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Markus Covert develops a new technique to track, in live cells, a key family of proteins that regulate health or cause disease.
June 18, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty find that A-beta, a substance suspected in Alzheimer’s disease, may impair learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain.
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.
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.
June 17, 2014 - The Dish
Bio-X labs introduce kids to the fun of science at the tenth annual kids science day.
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.
June 5, 2014
Stanford Bio-X has selected 21 graduate students to participate in the next round of its three-year fellowship program.
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.
May 28, 2014 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scope blog entry describes work by Bio-X affiliated member Calvin Kuo.
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.
May 25, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty discovered mutations that underly a rare tumor of the jaw.
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.
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.
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Christopher Garcia discovered how some immune cells recognize invaders.
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affilated faculty make use of Stanford's computing resources to answer big questions in science.
May 19, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Russ Altman and other Stanford faculty in collaboration with UCSF.