Browse Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants

Stanford Bio-X supports interdisciplinary research with our biannual Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program (IIP), corporate partnerships, Ventures grants, graduate fellowships, an undergraduate summer program, and more. The Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants fund proposals that enhance interdisciplinary research among the Stanford scientific communities in areas related to bioengineering, biosciences, and biomedicine, providing seed funding for high-risk, high-reward collaborative proposals including basic research leading to fundamental discoveries, as well as innovative technology, relating to human health.

Browse below to learn more about past, current, and future Seed Grant projects.

High-Throughput Quantitative Enzymology: Developing and Deploying a Novel Microfluidic Platform

Seed Grants

Polly Fordyce - Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics

Daniel Herschlag - Professor of Biochemistry and (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Wireless Electronic and Stem Cell Based Neural Circuit Rehabilitation Following Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Seed Grants

Ada Poon - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
A gut feeling: Mechano- and chemo-sensory inputs controlling adaptive intestinal growth

Seed Grants

Lucy O'Brien - Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Integrated Computer Simulation and In Vitro Measurements of Cancer Nanoparticle Extravasation

Seed Grants

Eric Shaqfeh - Lester Levi Carter Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Gianluca Iaccarino - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Better Understanding and Predicting Viral Sepsis

Seed Grants

Shirit Einav - Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology & Immunology

Purvesh Khatri - Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and Biomedical Data Science

Stephen Quake - Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics, and (by courtesy) of Physics

Holden Maecker - Professor (Research) of Microbiology and Immunology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
DNA Repair Activating Agents for Chemoprevention of BRCA1-mutation Associated Tumors

Seed Grants

James Ford - Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and of Genetics and (by courtesy) of Pediatrics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Determining feedback mechanisms linking cell cycle control and stem cell pluripotency using an engineered CRISPR/dCas9 system

Seed Grants

Jan Skotheim - Professor of Biology and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology

Marius Wernig - Professor of Pathology and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology

Lei Stanley Qi - Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Mapping microbiome-directed immunity using single cell sequencing

Seed Grants

Michael Snyder - Stanford W. Ascherman, PhD, Professor in Genetics

Stephen Quake - Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics, and (by courtesy) of Physics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Scalable instrumentation for electrical brain stimulation and neural recording

Seed Grants

Anthony Norcia - Professor (Research) of Psychology

Martin Breidenbach - Professor of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Emeritus

Stephen Boyd - Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science and of Management Science & Engineering

Nolan Williams - Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories & Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and (by courtesy) of Radiology (Neuroimaging & Neurointervention)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Elastic polymeric electronics for high throughput and high density mapping of cardiac arrhythmogenic activity

Seed Grants

Anson Lee - Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Zhenan Bao - K. K. Lee Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Materials Science & Engineering and Chemistry

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Molecular Mechanisms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Seed Grants

Ellen Kuhl - Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering

Soichi Wakatsuki - Professor of Photon Science and of Structural Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Exploring the evolution of human brain development with cerebral cortical spheroids

Seed Grants

Hunter Fraser - Associate Professor of Biology

Sergiu P. Pasca - Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Bonnie Uytengsu & Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Rapid Bacterial Identification in Sepsis Using Droplet Microfluidic On-Chip Isothermal Amplification

Seed Grants

Jason Andrews - Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and (by courtesy) of Epidemiology & Population Health

Sindy Tang - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor (by courtesy) of Radiology and of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
In Situ Transcriptome Profiling in Histological Sections

Seed Grants

Pehr Harbury - Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Tushar Desai - Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Brain Activity During Visual-Motor Coordination in Free-Flying Birds

Seed Grants

Eric I. Knudsen - Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Miniaturized RFID Cell-Tags for Wireless Cell Monitoring

Seed Grants

H.-S. Philip Wong - Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ada Poon - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Chemical Design of Ligands to Study Chloride-Channel Function in the Central Nervous System

Seed Grants

Merritt Maduke - Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Justin Du Bois - Associate Professor in Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Systems Biology

John Huguenard - Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and (by courtesy) of Molecular & Cellular Physiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
A Novel "Trigger and Release" Chemical Strategy for Imaging Tumor Hypoxia In Vivo

Seed Grants

Edward Graves - Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Physics) and (by courtesy) of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)

Martin Brown - Professor of Radiation Oncology, Emeritus

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Correlation of High-Resolution Imaging of Regional Lung Ventilation by Single Energy CT with SPECT Ventilation Images

Seed Grants

Billy Loo, Jr. - Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy)

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Biomolecular Technologies for Cell-Based Therapeutic Regeneration of Spinal Cord Injury

Seed Grants

Sarah Heilshorn - Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM) and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering and of Chemical Engineering

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Genome Space Telescope: Bringing DNA Sequence Homology into the 21st Century

Seed Grants

Gill Bejerano - Professor of Developmental Biology, of Computer Science, of Pediatrics (Genetics), and of Biomedical Data Science

William Dally - Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Control of Fat Cell Differentiation by Hormonal Oscillations

Seed Grants

Mary Frances Nunez Teruel - Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology

Sanjay Lall - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Allison Okamura - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Computer Science

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Radiation-Sensitized Nanocarriers for MR-Guided Radiation Therapy and Drug Delivery

Seed Grants

Dimitre Hristov - Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

Yan Xia - Associate Professor of Chemistry

Brian Hargreaves - Associate Professor of Radiology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
In Vivo Metabolic Imaging of Senescent Cells Using Hyperpolarized 13C MRS

Seed Grants

Daniel Spielman - Professor of Radiology

Jianghong Rao - Professor of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology) and (by courtesy) of Chemistry

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014
Initial Feasibility Determination for a Novel AIDS Vaccine

Seed Grants

Peter S. Kim - Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 7 - 2014

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Browse Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants

High-Throughput Quantitative Enzymology: Developing and Deploying a Novel Microfluidic Platform

Wireless Electronic and Stem Cell Based Neural Circuit Rehabilitation Following Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

A gut feeling: Mechano- and chemo-sensory inputs controlling adaptive intestinal growth

Integrated Computer Simulation and In Vitro Measurements of Cancer Nanoparticle Extravasation

Better Understanding and Predicting Viral Sepsis

DNA Repair Activating Agents for Chemoprevention of BRCA1-mutation Associated Tumors

Determining feedback mechanisms linking cell cycle control and stem cell pluripotency using an engineered CRISPR/dCas9 system

Mapping microbiome-directed immunity using single cell sequencing

Scalable instrumentation for electrical brain stimulation and neural recording

Elastic polymeric electronics for high throughput and high density mapping of cardiac arrhythmogenic activity

Molecular Mechanisms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Exploring the evolution of human brain development with cerebral cortical spheroids

Rapid Bacterial Identification in Sepsis Using Droplet Microfluidic On-Chip Isothermal Amplification

In Situ Transcriptome Profiling in Histological Sections

Brain Activity During Visual-Motor Coordination in Free-Flying Birds

Miniaturized RFID Cell-Tags for Wireless Cell Monitoring

Chemical Design of Ligands to Study Chloride-Channel Function in the Central Nervous System

A Novel "Trigger and Release" Chemical Strategy for Imaging Tumor Hypoxia In Vivo

Correlation of High-Resolution Imaging of Regional Lung Ventilation by Single Energy CT with SPECT Ventilation Images

Biomolecular Technologies for Cell-Based Therapeutic Regeneration of Spinal Cord Injury

Genome Space Telescope: Bringing DNA Sequence Homology into the 21st Century

Control of Fat Cell Differentiation by Hormonal Oscillations

Radiation-Sensitized Nanocarriers for MR-Guided Radiation Therapy and Drug Delivery

In Vivo Metabolic Imaging of Senescent Cells Using Hyperpolarized 13C MRS

Initial Feasibility Determination for a Novel AIDS Vaccine

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