Dr. Danny Chou's research program integrates concepts of chemical biology, protein engineering and structure biology to design new therapeutic leads and generate probes to study biological processes. A key focus of the Chou lab is insulin, an essential hormone in our body to reduce blood glucose levels. The lab generates synthetic libraries of insulin analogs to select for chemical probes, and investigates natural insulin molecules (e.g. from the venom of fish-hunting cone snails!) to develop novel therapeutic candidates. Dr.

Dr. Vipul Sheth is a board-certified, fellowship-trained radiologist with Stanford Health Care Radiology. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology, Division of Body MRI at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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.