Highlights

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.

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.

Bioengineer Markus Covert awarded $1.5 million grant

March 19, 2013 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Awards bestowed on Clark Center faculty member Markus Covert.
Three researchers earn Pasarow Awards

March 11, 2013 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Awards bestowed on Clark Center faculty members Karl Deisseroth, Carla Shatz, and Matthew Scott.
Stanford scientist joins call for major brain research project

March 11, 2013 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty Karl Deisseroth.
Mining consumers’ web searches can reveal unreported side effects of drugs, researchers say

March 6, 2013 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Russ Altman and Bio-X affiliated faculty Nigam Shah.
'Rhythm' of protein folding encoded in RNA, Stanford biologists find

January 29, 2013 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Judith Frydman.
Lucy Shapiro to be awarded National Medal of Science

January 28, 2013 - Inside Stanford Medicine
An award bestowed on Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lucy Shapiro.
Stanford launches new center to advance 'information age of genomics'

December 3, 2012 - Stanford Report
Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics launched, led by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Marcus Feldman and Carlos Bustamante.
Optogenetics illuminates pathways of motivation through brain, study shows

November 18, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Membership bestowed on Clark Center faculty members Tirin Moore and Karl Deisseroth.
A leap forward in brain-controlled computer cursors

November 18, 2012 - Stanford Engineering
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Krishna Shenoy.
Prakash wins Gates grant for paper microscope development

November 5, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded to Clark Center faculty member Manu Prakash.
Precisely targeted electrical brain stimulation alters perception of faces, scientists find

October 23, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Josef Parvizi and Kalanit Grill-Spector, partially funded by a Bio-X NeuroVentures grant.
Stanford biologists watch RNA fold in real time

October 19, 2012 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Steven Block.
Stanford scientist Brian Kobilka wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry

October 10, 2012 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Brian Kobilka wins Nobel.
Stanford's Roundtable panelists discuss healthy brains and the exciting frontiers of neuroscience

October 6, 2012 - Stanford Report
Roundtable discussion of neuroscience panelists including Bio-X Director and Clark Center faculty member Carla Shatz.
De la Zerda and Yeh receive NIH Director's Early Independence Award

October 3, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Awards bestowed on Bio-X affiliated faculty members Adam de la Zerda and Ellen Yeh.
Stanford-led research teams win HHMI innovator awards

September 24, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Awards bestowed on Clark Center faculty member Axel Brunger and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Liqun Luo.
Quake receives 2013 Nakasone Award

September 18, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Award bestowed on Clark Center faculty member Stephen Quake.
Lasker Award goes to biochemist James Spudich

September 10, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Award bestowed on Clark Center faculty member James Spudich.
Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet'

August 24, 2012 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty Deborah Gordon.
Stanford scientists use microbes to make 'clean' methane

July 24, 2012
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Alfred Spormann.
Stanford researchers produce first complete computer model of an organism

July 19, 2012 - Stanford Report
Research conducted by Clark Center faculty member Markus Covert, Bio-X Fellow Jayodita Sanghvi, and Bio-X Travel Awardee Jonathan Karr.
Stanford researchers synthesize printable, electrically conductive gel

June 27, 2012 - Stanford Report
Research and technology developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui.
NIH awards $2.1M to train scholars on biostatistics of personalized medicine

June 25, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded for training program conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Rob Tibshirani, Richard Olshen, and Chiara Sabatti.
Bioengineer Stephen Quake wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

June 4, 2012
Award bestowed on Clark Center faculty member Stephen Quake.
Deisseroth wins four awards for seminal work on optogenetics

May 21, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Awards bestowed on Clark Center faculty member Karl Deisseroth.
New type of retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind, study says

May 13, 2012
Research conducted by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker, funded in part by a Bio-X Seed Grant.
Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2012 - Stanford Report
Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences include Clark Center faculty member Karl Deisseroth and Bio-X affiliated faculty Christopher Garcia, Liqun Luo, and Robert Tibshirani.
$2.5 million grant for deeper data mining goes to Butte

April 23, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Atul Butte.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects nine Stanford professors to 2012 class of members

April 19, 2012 - Stanford Report
Stanford faculty elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, including Bio-X affiliated faculty Ann Arvin, Ben Barres, Philip Bucksbaum, Stuart Kim, and Liqun Luo.
New smartphone scans from Stanford could prevent needless oral cancer deaths

April 17, 2012 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Technology developed by Clark Center faculty member Manu Prakash.

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