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.

Bioactive and Biodegradable Gene Delivery Depot for Treating Osteonecrosis

Seed Grants

Fan Yang - Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Bioengineering

Stuart Goodman - The Robert L. & Mary Ellenburg Professor in Surgery and Professor (by courtesy) of Bioengineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Generation of Neurons from Fibroblasts with Direct Gene Delivery

Seed Grants

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Novel Molecular Force Probes to Investigate the Mechanism of Touch Sensation

Seed Grants

Alexander Dunn - Professor of Chemical Engineering

Miriam B. Goodman - Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Imaging the Ovarian Cancer-Associated Protein AXL to Stage Disease and Monitor Therapy

Seed Grants

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

Amato J. Giaccia - Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor, Professor of Radiation Oncology, and (by courtesy) of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Surgery

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Founding the Bio-X.Game Center for Education and Large Scale Science

Seed Grants

Rhiju Das - Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Daniel Schwartz - Dean of the Graduate School of Education and the Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Educational Technology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Measurement and modeling of the persistence length of native and reconstituted chromatin

Seed Grants

Aaron Straight - Pfeiffer and Herold Families Professor, Professor of Biochemistry and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology

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

Hideo Mabuchi - Professor of Applied Physics

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Examining the threshold of T cell memory by AFM-based receptor mapping

Seed Grants

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Oxytocin delivery during pup ultrasonic vocalizations to rescue maternal behavior

Seed Grants

Juan Santiago - Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Robert Sapolsky - John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Biology, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and of Neurosurgery

Helen Blau - The Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Elucidating on the mechanism of protein-protein interactions in epigenetic events from electronic spectroscopy

Seed Grants

Or Gozani - Dr. Morris Herzstein Professor

Roger Howe - William E. Ayer Professor in Electrical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Computerized Quantitative Imaging Assessment of Age-Related Acute Macular Degeneration

Seed Grants

Daniel Rubin - Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford), of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology and of Computer Science

Mark S. Blumenkranz - H. J. Smead Professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Environmental control of cell and genome size: A case study of Foraminifera

Seed Grants

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

Jonathan Payne - Professor of Geological Sciences

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Computational Analysis of Tumor Morphology to Build Prognostic Models and Discover Biological Networks in Breast Cancer

Seed Grants

Matt Van de Rijn - Sabine Kohler, MD, Professor of Pathology, Emeritus

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Bio-Mechanical Force Sensing and Remodeling by Cell-Cell Junctions in Multicellular Tissues

Seed Grants

William James Nelson - Rudy J. & Daphne Donohue Munzer Professor in the School of Medicine, Emeritus

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Tele-robotic system for real-time soft-tissue image guidance of stereotactic body radiation therapy

Seed Grants

Gift Funding

TIPP

Dimitre Hristov - Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Physics), Emeritus

J. Kenneth Salisbury - Professor (Research) of Computer Science and of Surgery (Anatomy), Emeritus

Daniel Chang - Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy)

Supported TIPP Gift Project - 2011
Matrix-induced alignment: effects on endothelial biology

Seed Grants

Gift Funding

TIPP

John Cooke - Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Emeritus

Gerald Fuller - Fletcher Jones II Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering

Supported TIPP Gift Project - 2011
Protection of mitochondrial functions in neurons from patients with Huntington’s diseases

Seed Grants

Sponsored Research Collaborations

BioSTAR

Daria Mochly-Rosen - George D. Smith Professor of Translational Medicine

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

Supported BioSTAR Sponsored Research Project - 2011
Novel Silk Scaffolds for Pancreatic Islet Encapsulation

Seed Grants

Sponsored Research Collaborations

BioSTAR

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

Sara Michie - Professor of Pathology

Supported BioSTAR Sponsored Research Project - 2011
Development of a Novel Three-Dimensional High Resolution Imaging Technology to Investigate the Mechanism of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Development

Corporate Fellowships

Sanaz Saatchi - Bio-X Amgen Fellow

Paul Yock - The Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Medicine, and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering

Supported Fellowship Project - 2009
Biophysics of Cellular Organization and Morphogenesis

Corporate Fellowships

Tristan Ursell - Bio-X Genentech Fellow

Kerwyn Casey Huang - Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology & Immunology

Supported Fellowship Project - 2009
Measurement and Control of Mitral Valve Material Properties in the Beating Heart

Corporate Fellowships

Gaurav Krishnamurthy - Bio-X Medtronic Fellow

D. Craig Miller - Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor in Cardiovascular Surgery

Drew Nelson - Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Supported Fellowship Project - 2008
The Colony-Forming Antibody Cell Array: A Novel Screening Strategy to Identify Cancer Stem Cells in Human Malignant Gliomas and Other Cancers

Seed Grants

Stephen Skirboll - Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Patrick O. Brown - Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 4 – 2008
Structure-Inspired Design of Biostable Inhibitors of hRSV Entry: Designing Peptoid-Based Inhibitors of Viral Infection Based on Minimal Peptides that Block hRSV Fusion

Seed Grants

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

Theodore Jardetzky - Professor of Structural Biology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 4 – 2008
High-Affinity, Highly Specific Peptoid Antagonists for G-Protein Coupled Receptors

Seed Grants

Brian Kobilka - Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular), of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, and (by courtesy) of Chemical and Systems Biology

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

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 4 – 2008
Functional Neuroimaging of Attention Networks

Seed Grants

Tirin Moore - Professor of Neurobiology

Kalanit Grill-Spector - Professor of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 4 – 2008
Carbon Nanotube-mediated Systemic SiRNA Delivery for Cancer Therapy

Seed Grants

Calvin Kuo - Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor

Hongjie Dai - The J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor in Chemistry

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 4 – 2008

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