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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.

Muhammad Ahmed Khan: SmartRehab: Design and Development of Brain-Controlled Smart and Portable Rehabilitation Kit for Home-Based Stroke Recovery
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Kimford Meador - Professor of Neurology

Maarten Lansberg - Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and (by courtesy) of Neurosurgery

Ada Poon - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Fellow - Muhammad Ahmed Khan - 2021
Josefine Eilsø Nielsen: Deconstructing Alzheimer’s Disease and type 2 Diabetes – a molecular study on Amyloid binding partners using electrons, X-rays and neutrons
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Annelise Barron - The W.M. Keck Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering

Mehrdad Shamloo - Professor (Research) of Neurosurgery and (by courtesy) of Neurology

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

Fellow - Josefine Eilsø Nielsen - 2021
Silas Nissen: Mechanism of core planar cell polarity complex function elucidated with single-molecule methods
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Jeffrey Axelrod - Professor of Pathology

Alexander Dunn - Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Fellow - Silas Nissen - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Establishing a Super-Resolution Imaging Platform to Study Genome Maintenance
Seed Grants

Gheorghe Chistol - Assistant Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology

Karlene Cimprich - Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and (by courtesy) of Chemistry

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Evaluating therapies for pediatric brain tumors by noninvasive imaging of signal transduction in the brain
Seed Grants

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

Michelle Monje - Associate Professor of Neurology and (by courtesy) of Neurosurgery, of Pediatrics, of Pathology and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Prognosis of anaphylaxis using an ex vivo basophil function assay
Seed Grants

Sindy Tang - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Stephen Galli - The Mary Hewitt Loveless, M.D. Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Pathology and of Microbiology & Immunology

Kari Nadeau - Naddisy Foundation Professor of Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology & Asthma, and Professor of Pediatrics (Allergy & Clinical Immunology) and (by courtesy) of Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Ultrasound-controlled in vivo gene editing via photoswitchable CRISPR-Cas9
Seed Grants

Guosong Hong - Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

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

Wendy Gu - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science & Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design for Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces
Seed Grants

Boris Murmann - Professor 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

Krishna Shenoy - Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Dynamics of hydrogen sulfide production by gut bacteria
Seed Grants

Jonas Cremer - Assistant Professor of Biology

Alfred Spormann - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Chemical Engineering, and (by courtesy) of Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Micro-tissue dicer (“µDicer”) for spatially resolved multi-modal genomics
Seed Grants

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

Sindy Tang - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Peptidoglycan profiling to understand host-pathogen interaction in Lyme disease
Seed Grants

Christine Jacobs-Wagner - Dennis Cunningham Professor and Professor of Biology

Jonathan Z. Long - Assistant Professor of Pathology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Geometric deep learning to discover RNA-targeting small-molecule drugs
Seed Grants

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

Rhiju Das - Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Designing Nitrogen-Selective Materials for Water Treatment using Ks-Amt5 Bacterial Membrane Transporters
Seed Grants

William Tarpeh - Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Laura M. K. Dassama - Assistant Professor of Chemistry

James Robert Swartz - James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: An Artificial Pancreas based on Electrically Controlled Insulin Release from Implanted Beta Cells
Seed Grants

Ada Poon - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Justin Annes - Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Portable, microfluidic, CRISPR-based diagnostics for point-of-care testing of infectious diseases
Seed Grants

Juan Santiago - Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Niaz Banaei - Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Mapping of the force-dependent landscape of T cell receptor agonists for immunotherapy
Seed Grants

K. Christopher Garcia - Younger Family Professor and Professor of Structural Biology

Polly Fordyce - Assistant Professor of Genetics and of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: The Bio-X Neural Interfaces Innovation Center (NI2C)
Seed Grants

Helen Bronte-Stewart - John E. Cahill Family Professor and Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and (by courtesy) of Neurosurgery

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

Krishna Shenoy - Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering

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

Scott Delp - James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Orthopaedic Surgery

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Treating addiction by non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation
Seed Grants

Kim Butts Pauly - Professor of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology) and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering and of Electrical Engineering

Xiaoke Chen - Associate Professor of Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Deciphering neural ensemble dynamics of human speech, from basic science to restoring communication
Seed Grants

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

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

Krishna Shenoy - Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Metamaterial Crystal for Ultrafast Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography
Seed Grants

Craig Levin - Professor of Radiology (Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford/Nuclear Medicine) and (by courtesy) of Physics, of Electrical Engineering, and of Bioengineering

Jennifer Dionne - Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: RNA-protein assemblies as drug targets in HIV
Seed Grants

Joseph Jody Puglisi - Professor of Structural Biology

Robert W. Shafer - Professor (Research) of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine) and (by courtesy) of Pathology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: An interdisciplinary approach to study vesicle-mediated intercellular communication in health and disease
Seed Grants

Jonathan Z. Long - Assistant Professor of Pathology

Monther Abu-Remaileh - Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Genetics and Institute Scholar of ChEM-H

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Harnessing ultrasound to control gene expression and editing
Seed Grants

Katherine Ferrara - Professor of Radiology

Lei Stanley Qi - Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 10 - 2020
Theresia Schnurr: Identifying causal genes and mechanisms of action in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease towards drug target discovery
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

Joshua W. Knowles - Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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

Fellow - Theresia Schnurr - 2019
Michael Westberg: Orthogonal Optogenetic Control of Synapse Signaling
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships

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

Possu Huang - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Fellow - Michael Westberg - 2018

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