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Clark Center Faculty

photo of Drs. Todd Brinton, Joseph Wu, and Paul Yock in the Clark Center

Over 50 faculty from more than 20 different departments – along with all their students, postdoctoral trainees, and staff – reside in the Clark Center.

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Rogelio Hernández-López - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Genetics
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Stanford Profile
Dr. Hernández-López's Lab Homepage
Dr. Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and of Genetics, a member of Stanford Bio-X, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Rogelio was a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2021. His laboratory works at the interface of mechanistic, synthetic and systems biology to understand and engineer biomedically relevant cellular behaviors.
Sergiu P. Pasca - Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Pasca's Lab Homepage
Dr. Sergiu Pasca's lab employs state-of-the-art stem cell biology, genome engineering, imaging and neuroscience approaches to identify the dynamical processes that go awry in neural cells derived from patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia, and what should be therapeutically targeted in these conditions.
Jonathan Pritchard - Bing Professor of Population Studies
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty, Scientific Leadership Council Member
Stanford Profile
Dr. Pritchard's Lab Homepage
Dr. Pritchard's lab is interested in a broad range of problems at the interface of genomics and evolutionary biology. One current focus of the lab is in understanding how genetic variation impacts gene regulation and complex traits. They also have long-term interests in using genetic data to learn about population structure, history and adaptation, especially in humans.
Daniel Jarosz - Associate Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Jarosz's Lab Homepage
Dr. Jarosz's aim is to identify and characterize these mechanisms at the molecular level, integrating our findings to gain insight into the interplay among genetic variation, phenotypic diversity, and environmental fluctuations in complex cellular systems.
Kristy Red-Horse - Associate Professor of Biology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Scientific Leadership Council Member
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Dr. Red-Horse's Lab Homepage
Dr. Red-Horse's laboratory uses cardiovascular development as a model to study the signals that instruct cell fate and guide morphogenesis during organ formation in the mammalian embryo.
Krishna Shenoy - Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Shenoy's Lab Homepage
Dr. Shenoy's group (Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory, NPSL) conducts neuroscience, neuroengineering, and translational research to better understand how the brain controls movement, and to design medical systems to assist people with movement disabilities.
Karl Deisseroth - D. H. Chen Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry & of Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Deisseroth's Lab Homepage
Dr. Deisseroth's lab focuses on developing molecular and cellular tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits.
Joshua Makower - Boston Scientific Applied Biomedical Engineering Professor
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Homepage
Dr. Makower serves as a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and is a consultant and real world mentor of The Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Co-Founder of the Biodesign Innovation Program at Stanford.
Alison Marsden - Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty, Scientific Leadership Council Member
Stanford Profile
Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab Homepage
Dr. Marsden's work focuses on the development of numerical methods for cardiovascular blood flow simulation, medical device design, application of optimization to large-scale fluid mechanics simulations, and application of engineering tools to impact patient care in cardiovascular surgery and congenital heart disease.
Joseph DeSimone - Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine, Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Chemistry and of Operations, Information & Technology at the Graduate School of Business
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. DeSimone's Lab Homepage
Dr. DeSimone's Department of Chemical Engineering Profile
Joseph M. DeSimone is the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds appointments in the Departments of Radiology and Chemical Engineering with courtesy appointments in the Department of Chemistry and in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Mark Schnitzer - Professor of Biology and of Applied Physics
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Schnitzer's Lab Homepage
The long-term goal of the Schnitzer lab's research is to advance experimental paradigms for understanding normal cognitive and disease processes at the level of neural circuits, with emphasis on learning and memory processes.
Tirin Moore - Professor of Neurobiology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Moore's Lab Homepage
Dr. Moore's laboratory studies neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neurophysiological basis of cognition (e.g. visual attention, visual awareness, and working memory).
Paul Yock - The Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Medicine, and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
Stanford Profile
Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Homepage
Dr. Yock is the founder and director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, a multidisciplinary training and support program for physicians and engineers with the ambition and talent to become health technology innovators.
Susan Holmes - The John Henry Samter University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Professor of Statistics
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Holmes's Lab Homepage
Dr. Holmes's lab's work focuses on large heterogeneous multi-layer data analyses.
Jonas Cremer - Assistant Professor of Biology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Cremer's Lab Homepage
Dr. Jonas Cremer is an Assistant Professor in Biology. He is interested in the physiology and growth of prokaryotes. Dr. Cremer studied physics and biophysics in Munich. He was a postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego. Before joining Stanford, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen.
Carla Shatz - Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Executive Committee Member, Seed Grant Committee Member, Scientific Leadership Council Chair, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Shatz's Lab Webpage
To discover cell and molecular underpinnings of circuit tuning, the Shatz lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity.
Benjamin Good - Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Good's Lab Homepage
The Good lab uses tools from statistical physics, population genetics, and computational biology to understand how microscopic growth processes and genome dynamics at the single cell level give rise to the collective behaviors that can be observed at the population level.
Axel Brunger - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, of Photon Science, and (by courtesy) of Structural Biology
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Brunger's Lab Webpage
Dr. Axel Brunger's laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release, and how these mechanisms relate to physiological function.
Daniel Fisher - David Starr Jordan Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and (by courtesy) of Biology and of Bioengineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Fisher's Department Website
Dr. Fisher's primary research interests are the dynamics of evolutionary processes.
Judith Frydman - Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics
Clark Center Faculty, Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Frydman's Lab Homepage
The long term goal of the Frydman lab's research is to understand how proteins fold in living cells.

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