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Dr. Xiaojing Gao hopes to provide answers to the question of how to design biological systems as “smart medicine” that sense patients’ states, process the information, and respond accordingly. To realize this vision, Dr.
Dr. Gary Darmstadt's research focuses on advancing child health and development in low resource settings and advancing gender equality and health globally. His research spans intervention development and introduction as well as processes of scaling up delivery of innovations in developing countries.
Dr. Elizabeth Mormino's research program focuses on combining imaging and genetics to predict cognitive trajectories over time, and the integration of novel PET scans to better understand human aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr. Kathleen Horst's primary interests are in breast radiation oncology, especially partial breast irradiation. She is the lead breast radiation oncologist at Stanford Cancer Center. She has ongoing interests in the radiobiology of breast cancer.
Dr. Frederick Dirbas's research interests are focused on improving therapy of breast cancer by refining existing diagnostic and treatment options, as well as introducing new methods that reduce side effects and improve quality of life for affected patients. Focuses include breast surgical oncology, accelerated partial breast irradiation, intraoperative radiotherapy, radiobiology of breast cancer, identification of markers of resistance to chemotherapy and radiation, and breast cancer stem cells.
Dr. Tengyu Ma's research interests broadly include topics in machine learning and algorithms, such as non-convex optimization, deep learning and its theory, reinforcement learning, representation learning, distributed optimization, and high-dimensional statistics.
Dr. Sui Wang's group's research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie retinal development and diseases. They utilize genetic and genomic tools to uncover how different types of retinal cells, including retinal neurons, glia and the vasculature, respond to developmental cues and disease insults at the epigenomic and transcriptional levels, and how they interact and collectively contribute to the integrity of the retina.
Dr. Marc Safran is the Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine and Fellowship Director of Sports Medicine, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Safran specializes in Sports Medicine and arthroscopic and ligament reconstructive surgery on the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee.
Dr. Matthew Wheeler is a physician scientist with interests in cardiomyopathies, rare and undiagnosed diseases, therapeutics and genomics. Dr. Wheeler has research training in both myocardial and skeletal muscle biology and genetics, genomics, and multi-scale networks and is a physician with interest and experience treating patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other inherited cardiomyopathies. I have clinical training in medicine, cardiology, cardiovascular genetics, and advanced heart failure.
Dr. Eran Bendavid's research interests involve understanding the relationship between policies and health outcomes in developing countries. Dr. Bendavid explores how decisions about foreign assistance for health are made, and how those decisions affect health and health delivery systems in recipient countries. He further explores issues of resource allocation in low and middle-income countries through disease modeling and cost-effectiveness analyses.
