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Browse Stanford Bio-X Supported Research

Stanford Bio-X supports interdisciplinary research with our biannual seed grants, corporate partnerships, Ventures grants, graduate fellowships, an undergraduate summer program, and more. Browse below to learn more about past, current, and future Seed Grant and Ventures projects, or explore the research of our PhD Fellows, Postdoc Fellows, Senior Fellow, Undergraduate Fellows, and Travel Award Recipients.

Orthogonal Optogenetic Control of Synapse Signaling
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Michael Lin - Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering, and (by courtesy) of Chemical and Systems Biology

Possu Huang - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Fellow - Michael Westberg - 2018
Biomimetic polymers facilitating biopharmaceutical applications
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Eric Appel - Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Andrew Spakowitz - Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics

Fellow - Anton Smith - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: In-vivo Sensors for Gut Redox Monitoring to Understand Host and Microbe Physiology
Seed Grants

Justin L. Sonnenburg - Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Amin Arbabian - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Structural insights into macromolecular protein motors by de novo engineering
Seed Grants

Possu Huang - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Zev Bryant - Associate Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Structural Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Revealing internal models of the environment by theory and brain-wide imaging
Seed Grants

Shaul Druckmann - Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Thomas Clandinin - Professor of Neurobiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Predicting seizures via intracortical brain-machine interfaces
Seed Grants

Paul Nuyujukian - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Neurosurgery and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering

Jaimie Henderson - John and Jene Blume - Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor and Professor of Neurosurgery and (by courtesy) of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Whole Brain Approach for Mapping and Restoring Social Communication
Seed Grants

Keren Haroush - Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Jin Hyung Lee - Associate Professor of Neurology, of Neurosurgery, and of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Imaging changes in immune surveillance by natural killer (NK) cells during the progression of MYC oncogene-driven lymphomas
Seed Grants

Dean Felsher - Professor of Medicine and of Pathology, Director of TRAM

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir - Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and Professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering and of Materials Science and Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Closed-loop neurochemical sensing and modulation system for treating psychiatric disorders
Seed Grants

Xiaoke Chen - Associate Professor of Biology

Zhenan Bao - Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering and of Chemistry

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Materials and Methods for Sustained Delivery of Drugs and Genes to the Cochlea
Seed Grants

Eric Appel - Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Anthony Ricci - Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery) and (by courtesy) of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: The Eye as the Window to the Brain in Childhood
Seed Grants

Gerald Grant - Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and (by courtesy) of Neurology

Ellen Kuhl - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Cardiothoracic Surgery and of Bioengineering

Heather Moss - Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and of Neurology

Kristen Yeom - Assistant Professor of Radiology (Pediatric Radiology)

Summer Han - Assistant Professor (Research) of Neurosurgery and of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Decoding Tumor Initiating Cells in Breast Cancer by Digital Cytometry
Seed Grants

Aaron Newman - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Michael Clarke - Karel H. and Avice N. Beekhuis Professor in Cancer Biology and Professor of Medicine (Oncology)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: A novel approach for targeted immune system remodeling for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer
Seed Grants

Jennifer Cochran - Shriram Chair of Bioengineering, Professor of Bioengineering, and Professor (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering

Julien Sage - Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) and of Genetics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Transforming a regenerative brain using somatic gene transfer through nanostraws
Seed Grants

Bo Wang - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Developmental Biology

Nicholas Melosh - Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Photon Science

Andrew Fire - George D. Smith Professor in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and Professor of Pathology and of Genetics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Generation of Optimized Adeno-Associated Viruses (AAV) for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transduction
Seed Grants

Agnieszka Czechowicz - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

Mark A. Kay - Dennis Farrey Family Professor in Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Live free or Inflame - Understanding the interplay of cell volume regulation, ECM viscoelasticity and the response to inflammation
Seed Grants

Nidhi Bhutani - Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Ovijit Chaudhuri - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: The Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment and Treatment Response in Ovarian Cancer
Seed Grants

Erinn Rankin - Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Oncology) and of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Biology)

Sarah Heilshorn - Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering

Oliver Dorigo - Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Oncology)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Non-linear difference-frequency ultrasound imaging
Seed Grants

Steve Chu - William R. Kenan Jr. Professor and Professor of Physics and of Molecular & Cellular Physiology

Jeremy Dahl - Assistant Professor of Radiology (Pediatric Radiology)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Targeting and eradicating small cell lung cancer-initiated brain metastases using nanoparticle-engineered stem cells
Seed Grants

Fan Yang - Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Bioengineering

Julien Sage - Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) and of Genetics

Gerald Grant - Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and (by courtesy) of Neurology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Investigation of the structure of the native full length glycoprotein B of varicella-zoster virus in relation to its fusion function
Seed Grants

Ann Arvin - Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Wah Chiu - Professor of Photon Science, Bioengineering, and of Microbiology & Immunology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: From structures to movies: combining cryo-electron microscopy and computer simulation to reveal macromolecular mechanisms
Seed Grants

Ron Dror - Associate Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Georgios Skiniotis - Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and of Structural Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Genome-wide screening to reveal the molecular basis of myelination
Seed Grants

Brad Zuchero - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Michael Bassik - Assistant Professor of Genetics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Synthetic Signaling Pathways for Anterograde Tracing of Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Brain
Seed Grants

Alice Ting - Professor of Genetics, of Biology and (by courtesy) of Chemistry

Nirao Shah - Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Neurobiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Wireless Wearable Electroencephalography (EEG) Device for Sleep Monitoring
Seed Grants

Ada Poon - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Zhenan Bao - Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering and of Chemistry

Emmanuel Mignot - Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: A Novel Approach Towards Drug Screening Using Single Cell Experiments, Isolated Heart Preparations, Multiscale Modeling, and Machine Learning
Seed Grants

Ellen Kuhl - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Cardiothoracic Surgery and of Bioengineering

Euan Ashley - Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and (by courtesy) of Pathology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018

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