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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Can we address both chronic pain and the opioid crisis? Yes, pain doctors say
March 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sean Mackey and other researchers say we can curb the prescription opioid crisis, while treating pain, by using a variety of tactics. -
Stanford researchers develop a smartphone app to simultaneously treat and track autism
March 6, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Dennis Wall's group is working on a smartphone app that could help diagnose autism in minutes – and provide ongoing therapy as well. -
Anti-CD47 antibody trial in advanced cancers shows promise
March 5, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A phase 1 clinical trial by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Irv Weissman, Mark Pegram, and Ravindra Majeti, of an antibody against the “don‘t eat me’ signal on cancer cells, appears safe and well-tolerated by patients with advanced cancers. -
A Stanford-led team unveils the prototype for a computer-on-a-chip
February 19, 2019 - Stanford News
Computers have shrunk, but engineers want to cram the features of a computer into a single chip that they could install anywhere. A team under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong has developed the prototype. -
More primary care physicians leads to longer life spans
February 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Life expectancy grows when there are more primary care physicians in the field, yet their numbers are shrinking, finds a study led by researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sanjay Basu. -
New research shows that species evolve ways to backup life’s machinery
February 14, 2019 - Stanford Engineering
A new analysis from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jure Leskovec and Marcus Feldman reveals that every species from bacteria to primates has developed ways to bypass breakdowns in the networks of proteins vital to sustaining life. -
Failure to take statins leads to higher mortality
February 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
More than a third of patients who are prescribed statins fail to take them regularly, and they are dying at higher rates as a result, according to research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joshua Knowles. -
Computer vs. patient: Fighting for residents’ attention
February 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Medical residents spend more than five hours a shift in front of computer screens, much of it reviewing notes, Stanford research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Chen has found. -
New antibiotics are desperately needed: Machine learning could help
February 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scientists including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member James Zou have created an algorithm that works to generate and refine DNA sequences that are likely to code for antimicrobial proteins. -
Scientists identify reversible molecular defect underlying rheumatoid arthritis
February 4, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In rheumatoid arthritis, helper T cells behave differently from regular cells. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy have learned why. -
Male mice hard-wired to recognize sex of other mice
January 31, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The discovery, by researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nirao Shah, of neurons that drive mice’s innate ability to identify the sex of other mice highlights the importance of biological influences on sex-specific behaviors. -
Apply for the 2019 Stanford Bio-X, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Stanford ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 8, 2019
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 16th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Drug development is no longer just for Big Pharma
December 20, 2018
Developing drugs is typically the domain of large pharmaceutical companies. Felix and Heather Baker Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and Stanford Bio-X SIGF Teresa Purzner shares an example of drug development for a rare pediatric brain cancer that was done in a university setting. -
Visiting Scholar or Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
November 5, 2018
The Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation would like to announce our call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Stanford-led team simulates how Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain
October 12, 2018 - Stanford News
A new computer model from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ellen Kuhl maps how misshapen proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and ALS spread throughout the brain. The work, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, could aid in finding ways to diagnose and treat these neurodegenerative disorders. -
Apply for the 2019 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 10, 2018
The Stanford 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 2018. -
Osteoporosis, fracture risk predicted with genetic screen
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new genetic screen may be able to predict low bone-mineral density, osteoporosis and fracture risk prior to clinical symptoms, according to a retrospective study of nearly 400,000 people by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stuart Kim. -
Gut bacteria byproduct protects against Salmonella
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A molecule called propionate inhibits the growth of Salmonella in mice and may be a promising treatment, say Stanford Bio-X affiliates Denise Monack, José Vilches-Moure, Justin Sonnenburg, Ami Bhatt, and KC Huang, and Travel Awardee Amanda Jacobson. -
How you get around depends on how fast you’re moving
July 25, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli shows that how our brains blend cues to estimate our speed and position in space depends on where we are and how fast we seem to be moving. -
Diabetic-level glucose spikes seen in healthy people
July 24, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mike Snyder and Tracey McLaughlin in which blood sugar levels were continuously monitored reveals that even people who think they’re “healthy” should pay attention to what they eat. -
Team to fight common viral infection in kidney transplant recipients
July 23, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Olivia Martinez and Mark Davis have joined forces to learn how immune cells in some kidney transplant patients fight a common virus. The work could lead to a test to predict who is at risk and/or develop treatments. -
Stitching single cells together any which way you want to
July 19, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
What if you could stitch together single cells any way you wanted to? Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Bio-X Fellow David Glass shows that potential medical and even industrial applications abound. -
Bacterial armor could be a new target for antibiotics
July 18, 2018 - Stanford Engineering
A thin membrane around some bacterial cell walls has structural properties critical for survival, find Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty KC Huang and Julie Theriot, Bio-X Fellow Amanda Miguel, and Travel Awardee Gabriel Billings. Targeting it could treat infections. -
New Stanford algorithm could improve diagnosis of rare genetic diseases
July 17, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Diagnosing rare genetic diseases requires slow, educated guesswork. Stanford Bio-X affiliates Gill Bejerano and Jon Bernstein, Bio-X Fellows Johannes Birgmeier and Aaron Wenger, and Bio-X USRP participant Cole Deisseroth want to automate the process. -
A little-known virus could become the next global pandemic
May 25, 2018 - Stanford News
An outbreak of Nipah in South India has renewed interest in the virus, which has a high mortality rate and no vaccine or cure. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby explains risk factors and potential interventions. -
Where bioengineering and stem cell science meet, and thrive
May 21, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Mimicking a stem cells' natural environment in the laboratory is impossible without recent bioengineering advances. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Helen Blau and Sarah Heilshorn, as well as Travel Award recipient Chris Madl, discuss the field. -
PET scan tracer predicts success of cancer ‘vaccine’
May 14, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With a radioactive tracer, scientists can use a PET scan to quickly tell whether a cancer immunotherapy will be effective, in work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sam Gambhir, Ronald Levy, and Michelle James, and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Aaron Mayer. -
New water treatment plant tests Stanford technology for cleaning wastewater while creating energy
May 11, 2018 - Stanford News
A new wastewater treatment plant will be the largest to test work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Craig Criddle that significantly reduces the cost of cleaning water. -
Brand name or generic? Study probes use of drug names
May 10, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Euan Ashley and Jonathan Chen sifted through more than a million texts to find out if clinicians inadvertently endorse brand-name medications over less expensive generic alternatives. -
Scientists use dietary seaweed to manipulate gut bacteria in mice
May 9, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Justin Sonnenburg finds that gut bacteria able to digest seaweed can outcompete native bacteria in the large intestine of nori-fed mice. Favoring one species over others in the gut could help advance precision health.