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June 18, 2025

In 2025, Stanford Bio-X launched Food@Stanford, a new campus wide initiative uniting students, postdocs, staff, and faculty across all seven schools with the shared mission to advance cutting-edge research, foster innovation, and support educational initiatives at the intersection of food, medicine, and human health. The program seeks to drive scientific discoveries that deepen our understanding of how food and nutrition impact health and disease; support the development of innovative solutions to improve health outcomes through food-based interventions and medical approaches; and build a collaborative research community that bridges disciplines across medicine, engineering, the humanities and sciences, and sustainability. The program is also committed to educating and inspiring the next generation of leaders, and to translating research findings into real-world applications.

To further our aim, we have created a new fellowship program focused on food systems. Our inaugural cohort of Stanford Bio-X Food Fellows represent three different departments, and they will collaborate with eight Stanford faculty mentors.

We are honored to welcome these remarkable individuals to the Bio-X community and look forward to supporting them as they create more health-promoting food futures.

 

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The 2025 Stanford Bio-X Food Fellows in alphabetical order:

Ethan Darwin (Mechanical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Ellen Kuhl, Vayu Hill-Maini, and Marc Levenston
Bridging Science and AI: A Comprehensive Study on the Mechanics, Taste, and Optimization of Fungi-Based Meats
 

Alisa Hathaway (Electrical Engineering)
Advised by: Profs. Todd Coleman and Eric Stice
From Scent to Solution: Developing Naturalistic and Dynamic Training Approaches to Address Obesity through Olfactory Food Cue Sensitivity
 

Tuan Khoa Hoang  (Bioengineering)
Advised by: Profs. Michael Snyder, Markus Covert, and Justin Sonnenburg
Engineering the Gut Microbiome for Metabolome Modulation: From Data to Mechanistic Insights

 

Headshot photo of Ethan Darwin.  Headshot photo of Alisa Hathaway.  Headshot photo of Tuan Khoa Hoang.

              Ethan Darwin                            Alisa Hathaway                         Tuan Khoa Hoang