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 researchers use microfluidics to reveal enzyme properties in unprecedented detail
June 27, 2019
For years, researchers studied key enzymes in largely piecemeal fashion. Now, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Polly Fordyce and Dan Herschlag are using new techniques to explore previously inaccessible aspects of the molecules that make life happen. -
Radiation-free stem cell transplants, gene therapy may be within reach
May 29, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Hiromitsu Nakauchi and Kyle Loh and their colleagues may have cracked the code to doing stem cell transplants and gene therapy without radiation and chemotherapy. -
Mast cells crucial to causing osteoarthritis
May 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Blocking the development of mast cells or the activity of a cartilage-degrading enzyme they produce secrete mice from osteoarthritis in a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliates Bill Robinson, Stephen Galli, Nicholas Giori, Stuart Goodman, and Constance Chu. -
Extreme cold could help Stanford researchers reveal herpesvirus infection
May 13, 2019 - Stanford News
Researchers don’t know how viruses like those that cause chicken pox infect cells. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Ann Arvin and Wah Chiu, supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, are using a super-cold form of electron microscopy to find out. -
Blocking protein curbs memory loss in old mice
May 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray, Eugene Butcher, Stephen Quake, and Marion Buckwalter, Bio-X Fellow Andrew Yang, and Bio-X USRP participant Taylor Merkel found that impeding a specific protein enabled old mice to perform better on memory tests. -
New research links brain injury from low oxygen to specific cells
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anca Pasca, Sergiu Pasca, and Theo Palmer find that low oxygen levels during brain development may cause particular cells to differentiate too soon. Their work is featured on the May 2019 cover of Nature Medicine. -
New computational tool enables powerful molecular analysis
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Aaron Newman, Ash Alizadeh, Maximilian Diehn and Andrew Gentles, partly supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, have developed a computational platform for analyzing the molecular behavior of individual cells in tissue samples. -
Hormone reduces social impairment in kids with autism
May 1, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a study of 30 children with autism, Stanford Bio-X affiliates Karen Parker, Antonio Hardan, and Joseph Garner found that vasopressin improved social skills more than a placebo, suggesting that the hormone may treat core features of the disorder. -
Genetic roots of psychiatric disorders clearer due to improved techniques
April 30, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Laramie Duncan explains that genome-wide association studies of psychiatric disorders are far more reliable than older, smaller genetic studies. -
Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
April 29, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ron Davis and James Harris devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports. -
New approach by Stanford researchers could lead to a lifetime flu vaccine
April 26, 2019 - Stanford News
So far scientists haven’t managed to make a vaccine that protects against all strains of flu. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Peter Kim has developed new approach could end that ritual and protect against deadly pandemic flu. -
Stanford doctors, materials scientists hope a blood test will encourage more colon cancer screenings
April 19, 2019 - Stanford News
A blood test to detect colorectal cancer being developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Shan Wang could help improve screening rates. -
Which blood-based method works best to detect TB?
April 23, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Purvesh Khatri, Niaz Banaei, and Juan Santiago are working toward a new type of tuberculosis diagnostic that utilizes blood samples. -
Stanford researchers work to unlock flatworms' regenerative powers
April 22, 2019 - Stanford News
No one knows exactly how flatworms can rebuild their entire bodies from the tiniest sliver. Supported by a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant, affiliated faculty Bo Wang, Nicholas Melosh, and Andrew Fire are building new tools to study the worms’ regeneration. -
Some viruses help protect harmful bacteria in CF patients
April 17, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Bollyky, Bio-X Fellow Jolien Sweere, and Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Michelle have shown that some viruses sequester antibiotics in CF patients' lungs, possibly helping bacterial infections. -
Stanford experiment finds humans beat algorithms at image compression
March 25, 2019 - Stanford News
Three high schoolers working under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tsachy Weissman found that, when file size is restricted, humans are better at representing images than traditional algorithms. -
Computer vision technology could aid ICU care by spotting movement
March 25, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliate Fei-Fei Li are tackling the problem of post-intensive care syndrome with artificial intelligence technology that detects patient mobility. -
Mystery novel and dream spur key scientific insight into heart defect
March 20, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In 2014, after months of not getting expected results, Stanford Bio-X founding member, first Director, and affiliated faculty James Spudich fell asleep and had a dream that would change the thinking about what causes a common and often lethal heart defect. -
Modified immune cells issue alert when detecting cancer in mice
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sam Gambhir and Bio-X Fellows Amin Aalipour and Gunsagar Gulati were able to engineer immune cells known as macrophages to detect and flag cancer in mice, which could be used for early cancer diagnostics. -
Stanford researchers create hydrogen fuel from seawater
March 18, 2019 - Stanford News
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen presents an alternative to fossil fuels, but purified water is a precious resource. A team under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Hongjie Dai has now developed a way to harness seawater for chemical energy. -
A cell’s “self-destruct” function could yield new therapies
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scientists studying cell death, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jan Carette and Scott Dixon, are working to understand how the body protects itself from disease and use that information to form better treatments. -
Stanford researchers measure near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors
March 15, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jennifer Dionne redefines what it means for low-cost semiconductors, called quantum dots, to be near-perfect and meet quality standards. -
Concussion is a big, vague term and we need to start breaking it down
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Engineering
Through biometric tracking, simulated modeling and medical imaging, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty David Camarillo, Michael Zeineh and Gerald Grant and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Fidel Hernandez show how hits to the side of the head could cause concussions. -
Drug could alleviate side effects of chemo for breast cancer patients
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Wu have found a way to predict who will suffer heart problems from a common breast-cancer drug, as well as identified an FDA-approved medication that could mitigate those side effects. -
Molecular data can predict breast cancer recurrence
March 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Some breast cancers return decades later. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Christina Curtis, joined by collaborators at other institutions, has subcategorized tumors to predict recurrence, guide treatment decisions and improve drug development. -
Immune profile two days after stroke predicts dementia a year later
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Marion Buckwalter, Nima Aghaeepour, Martin Angst, and Maarten Lansberg have found that transient changes in circulating immune cell types can predict the likelihood of dementia one year after a stroke. -
With metabolic profiles of children, center hopes to head off disease early
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Snyder, Karl Sylvester, David Stevenson and Tina Cowan plan to study thousands of metabolites in babies, children and pregnant women to understand the origins of disease. -
Treating parasite infections during pregnancy thought to boost babies’ immune responses
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Desiree LaBeaud finds that pneumonia vaccines seem to work better if their mothers are treated for parasitic infections during pregnancy. -
A better brick
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Earth Matters
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby is on a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material. -
Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub shoots for the moon
March 7, 2019 - Stanford News
A February 21 launch was the culmination of years of work by Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub’s nonprofit SpaceIL, which he co-founded in 2011.