Unfolding The Brain
Can the way the brain folds determine how you think? Engineer Ellen Kuhl explains how mechanical forces affect the wrinkles in your brain.
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
Executive Committee Member, Seed Grant Committee Member, Scientific Leadership Council Chair, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
Dr. Ellen Kuhl's area of professional expertise is living matter physics, the creation of theoretical and computational models to predict the acute and chronic response of living structures to environmental changes during development and disease progression.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: The Eye as the Window to the Brain in Childhood
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
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Research News
‘Re-Thinking Food’ symposium launches interdisciplinary effort to reimagine global food systems
May 1, 2025 - Stanford News
A new initiative led by Stanford Bio-X unites all seven Stanford schools to integrate research, education, and...
Ellen Kuhl named director of Stanford Bio-X
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
Stanford-led team simulates how Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain
October 12, 2018 - Stanford News
A new computer model from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ellen Kuhl maps how misshapen proteins...