Plants are increasingly vulnerable to environmental stressors—such as pathogen infection, drought, and heat—from climate change. These challenges threaten global food security and limit the carbon sequestration potential of plants. Dr. Ellen Rim's research goal is to sustainably enhance plant productivity and resilience through protein engineering. The Rim lab engineers proteins involved in plant immune and hormone signaling pathways using directed evolution in high-throughput single cell systems.

Dr. David Solomon is a physician-scientist tumor neuropathologist and cancer researcher with dedicated expertise in the pathologic and multi-omic molecular profiling of nervous system tumors and other cancers. 

Dr. Jonathan Liu is a biomedical engineer and professor in the department of pathology, where his laboratory develops high-resolution optical-imaging devices and computational-analysis strategies for guiding treatment decisions. In particular, Dr. Liu's lab is developing non-destructive slide-free 3D pathology methods for clinical decision support and surgical guidance.

Dr. Jason Sheltzer received a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include aneuploidy, genomic instability, mitotic kinases, molecular pharmacology, and genome engineering.

Dr. Natalie Larson's lab develops hybrid manufacturing methods (e.g., multimaterial 3D printing with subvoxel control) and applies in-situ characterization techniques (e.g., 4D X-ray computed tomography) to investigate new classes of hierarchical architected materials. The Lab aims to enable sustainable fabrication of multimaterial and composite systems with enhanced properties, including efficiency and multifunctionality, for applications in aerospace, transportation, soft robotics, and healthcare.

Dr. Siddharth Krishnan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to this, he was a K99-funded Research Scientist in the groups of Prof. Daniel Anderson and Prof. Robert Langer at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and at Boston Children's Hospital. He received BS and MS degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Prof. John Rogers' group. His work has focused on the development of bioelectronic devices for sensing and therapeutics.

Dr. Kenneth Weber's research seeks to develop markers of pain and sensorimotor function using machine-learning and advanced brain, spinal cord, and musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Weber aims to use these techniques to better understand the neuropathology of pain and neurological conditions and discover more effective treatments and preventative strategies.

For the past 20 years most of Dr. Christopher Gardner's research has been focused on investigating the potential health benefits of various dietary components or food patterns using randomized controlled trials. The interventions have involved vegetarian diets, soy, garlic, omega-3 fats/fish oil/flax oil, antioxidants, Ginkgo biloba, and popular weight loss diets. These trials have studied outcomes that include weight, blood lipids and lipoproteins, inflammatory markers, glucose, insulin, and body composition. Most of these trials have been NIH-funded.