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CSBS Mentors
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Assistant Professor, Medicine Oncology; Member: Cancer Institute, Bio-X, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Research: Functional genomics and computational biology in the study of lymphoid tumors and response to immunochemotherapy. |
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Altman, Russ |
Kenneth Fong Professor of Genetics, Medicine (Medical Informatics, General Internal Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Computer Science. Research: bioinformatics, including functional genomics, particularly systems pharmacology to understand the impact of human variation on drug response. |
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Artandi, Steven |
Jerome and Daisy Low Gilbert Professor and Professor of Biochemistry Research: Tert and stem cells, tissue regeneration and aging, telomerase trafficking and assembly, and telomerase and disease |
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Bendall, Sean |
Assistant Professor (Research) of Pathology Research: Our goal is to understand the mechanisms regulating the development of human systems (both embryonic and adult). |
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Chang, Howard |
Professor, Dermatology Research: Identification of key regulators of large-scale transcriptional programs underlying cancer metastasis and self-renewal; RNA biology and RNA-protein interactions. |
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Covert, Markus |
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy), Chemical and Systems Biology Research: integration of computational and experimental techniques to characterize the molecular mechanisms of innate immunity, in particular, NF-kappaB regulation; in-silico modeling of cellular processes in whole cell; mapping host-virus interactions. |
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Crabtree, Jerry |
Professor in Experimental Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology Research: The role of chromatin regulation in development and human cancer |
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Curtis, Christina |
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Genetics; Co-Director, Molecular Tumor Board, Cancer Institute Research: The development and application of integrated computational and experimental approaches to i) quantify the evolutionary dynamics of tumor progression and therapeutic resistance ii) characterize cancer (epi)genomes and transcriptomes to inform precision medicine iii) delineate chromatin regulatory architecture and the genotype-phenotype map in cancer. |
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Diehn, Max |
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy; Research: molecular understanding of breast and lung cancer stem cells; development of methods to over comeresistance mechanisms to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer stem cells. |
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Dill, David |
Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering; Research: development and application Boolean and qualitative methods for modeling and data analysis of high-throughput data to expose molecular mechanisms that drive cancer. |
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Engleman, Edgar |
Professor of Pathology and of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology) Research: We study the biology of immune cells and their roles in the pathogenesis of cancers and other life-threatening diseases, biology and functions of dendritic cells, and immune cells in autoimmune diseases, metabolic diseases, graft versus host disease and transplantation tolerance. |
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Fantl, Wendy |
Assistant Professor (Research) of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Oncology) |
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Felsher, Dean |
Professor, Medicine – Oncology, Pathology Research: investigation of how oncogenes initiate and sustain tumorigenesis, through conditional activation of oncogenes in human and mouse cells in tissue culture and in specific tissues of transgenic mice. |
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Fisher, Daniel |
Professor of Applied Physics and (By Courtesy) Bioengineering and Biology Research: Dynamics of evolutionary processes including microbes, immune system, and cancer |
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Gentles, Andrew |
Assistant Professor (Research) of Medicine (BMIR) and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science Research: Computational systems biology of human disease. Particular focus on integration of high-throughput datasets with each other, and with phenotypic information and clinical outcomes. |
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Gevaert, Olivier |
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research); Research: Development of machine learning methods for biomedical decision support using multi-scale biomedical data including omics (i.e. RNA sequencing, DNA methylation), cellular (e.g. computational analysis of H&E slides) and tissue-level (e.g. medical imaging such as CT and MRI) data. |
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Giaccia, Amato |
Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation and (By courtesy) Obstetrics & Gynecology; Member: Cancer Center; Director, Cancer Biology Program. Research: molecular mechanism underlying the response of tumors and normal tissue to hypoxia; role of tumor microenvironment in metastatic spread. |
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Ji, Hanlee |
Assistant Professor, Medicine Oncology; Member: Cancer Center; Senior Associate Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center. Research: analysis of cancer genomes and next generation sequencing strategies for personalized care in cancer risk assessment, prognosis and treatment; technology development of novel genetic-based cancer diagnostics | |
Kuo, Calvin |
Professor, Medicine - Hematology (By courtesy), Chemical and Systems Biology Research: functional validation of oncogenic loci in gastrointestinal malignancies, using primary organize cultures that support multilineage differentiation. |
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Li, Jin Billy |
Assistant Professor of Genetics Research: RNA editing: identification, regulation, and function |
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Majeti, Ravi |
Associate Professor, Medicine – Hematology, Member: Cancer Center, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Research: molecular characterization and therapeutic targeting of leukemia stem cells in human hematologic disorders, particularly acute myeloid leukemia. |
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Mallick, Parag |
Assistant Professor, Radiology – Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection. Research: integrated computational and experimental analysis of complex biological systems ranging including derivation of dynamic cellular cancer networks; quantitative proteomics in cells, tissue and plasma/serum. |
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Montgomery, Stephen |
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Genetics and (by courtesy) Computer Science; Director, Genome Informatics Initiative in Pathology Research: Genetic studies of gene regulation and gene expression, Molecular basis of disease, Gene by environment interactions, Computational Biology |
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Musen, Mark |
Professor Medicine – Biomedical Informatics Research; Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Research: Biomedical informatics, intelligent systems, clinical decision-support; development of task-specific software architecture, and biomedical ontologies. |
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Nolan, Garry |
Rachord and Carlota A. Harris Professor, Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory Research: signaling alterations at the single cell level in leukemia and lymphoma, cancer stem cells; signaling signatures predicting patient outcome and drug response. |
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Petrov, Dmitri |
Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences Research: Evolution of genomes and population genomics of adaptation and variation |
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Plevritris, Sylvia |
Professor, Department of Radiology, and (by courtesy) Management Science and Engineering; Director, NCI Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology; co-Chief, Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS); Director, Cancer Systems Biology Scholars (CSBS) Program. Research: Systems biology approach to understand tumor microenvironment and design optimal strategies for combination drug therapy by integrating multi-omic data at the level of bulk tumor expression, and by quantifying intratumor heterogeneity through single cell analysis. |
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Pollack, Jonathan |
Associate Professor, Pathology; Member: Cancer Center, Founding Director, Stanford Tissue Bank. Research: cancer genomics, use of DNA microarrays, nextgeneration sequencing, and RNA inference screens for improved diagnosis and therapy in epithelial cancers. |
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Rubin, Daniel |
Assistant Professor, Radiology and Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research Research: imaging informatics, particularly quantitative imaging, decision support, and knowledge representation; developing informatics methods and tools for computerized quantitative imaging assessment of tumor burden |
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Salzman, Julia |
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Member: Bio-X, Stanford Cancer Institute. Research: Experimental, bioinformatic and statistical approaches to studying the mechanism and function of RNA splicing with high throughput methods and RNA-seq, focusing on circular RNA and its dysregulation in cancer; RNA biomarkers for cancer, especially circular RNA. |
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Snyder, Michael |
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics; Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine; Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford Neurosciences Institute. Research: Cancer genome sequencing, multupomics profiling. |
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Tibshirani, Robert |
Professor, Health Research & Policy – Biostatistics; Professor, Natural Sciences Cluster – Statistics. Research: applied statistics, biostatistics, data mining, state-of-the art statistical methodology for genomics and proteomics, applied to cancer. |
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van de Rijn, Matt |
Professor, Pathology |
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West, Robert |
Associate Professor, Pathology; Co-Director, Immunodiagnosis Laboratory. Research: RNA-seq expression studies of potential therapeutic gene targets in epithelial cancers and soft tissue tumors; microenvironment, oncogenesis and biomarker discovery in breast cancer. |
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Winslow, Monte |
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Pathology Research: To use unbiased genomic methods and in vivo models to better understanding the molecular and cellular changes that underlie tumor progression and each step of the metastatic cascade. |
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Wong, Wing |
Stephen R. Pierce Goldman Sachs Professor in Science and Human Health, Statistics and Health Research and Policy Research: statistics and bioinformatics applied to gene regulatory analysis, RNA-seq analysis; computational prediction of cis-regulatorymodules; methods for short read mapping (SeqMap), isoform-specific expression inference. |