Shannon Choi and Madeline Cooper, (M1)
MSTP Students
Every year, 8 to 10 students from diverse and varied backgrounds join the Stanford MSTP. In the past 50 years our program has trained more than 340 physician-scientists who have become leaders in modern biomedical research (Click to view Alumni).
Thesis Defenses
Current MD PhD Students
Our students listed below are grouped by the year they entered the program. Under their name we have listed their undergraduate institution, their Stanford thesis laboratory, and the Stanford graduate program or department they have joined.
2019
- Joshua Carter
Montana State University-Bozeman - Henry Cousins
Harvard University
- Ibtihal Elfaki
Brown University - Brian Garcia Rodriguez
Florida International University - Matthew Grieshop
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Leandra Jackson
University of California, Irvine - Kwat Medetgul-Ernar
University of California, San Diego - Samantha Scharenberg
Stanford University - Emily Trimm
University of Pennsylvania
2018
- Gita Abhiraman
Harvard University - Harrison Besser
Harvard University
- Preksha Bhagchandani
MIT - Quenton Bubb
Johns Hopkins University - Tejas Dharmaraj
Johns Hopkins University - Charlotte Herber
Yale University - Daniel Dan Liu
Princeton University - Tara Murty
Harvard University - Chelsea Nnebe
Howard University - Olivia Yu Zhou
University of Pennyslvania
2017
- Shannon Choi
University of California-Davis
Lab of Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD - Madeline Cooper
Harvard University
Lab of Brad Zuchero, PhD - Lori Dershowitz
Harvard University
Lab of Julia Kaltschmidt, PhD - Isaac Jackson
University of Michigan
Lab of Michelle James, PhD - Samuel Kim
Princeton University
Lab of Gerald Crabtree, MD - Shamik Mascharak
Stanford University
Lab of Michael Longaker, MD - Aditya Mukund
Duke University
Lab of Lacramioara Bintu, PhD
2016
- Alvaro Amorin
University of California, Berkeley
Labs of Natalia Gomez Ospina, MD, PhD & Matt Porteus, MD, PhD
Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine - Timothy Chai
UC Los Angeles
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Cancer Biology - Anthony Cordova
Stanford University
Lab of Lingyin Li, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Maria Filsinger Interrante
Stanford University
Lab of Peter Kim, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Andrea Garofalo
University of Chicago
Lab of Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Margaret Guo
MIT
Lab of Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics - Ved Topkar
Harvard University
Lab of Rhiju Das, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Vipul Vachharajani
MIT
Lab of Alex Dunn, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Shivam Verma
Princeton University
Lab of Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology - Aaron Wilk
Westmont College
Lab of Catherine Blish, MD, PhD
Program in Immunology - David Wang
Princeton University
Lab of Liqun Luo, PhD
Department of Biology - Kathryn Wu
Swarthmore College
Lab of Brad Zuchero, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Angela Zhang
Harvard University
Labs of Russ Altman MD, PhD, and Joseph Wu MD, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics
- Ellie Beam
Duke University
Lab of Amit Etkin, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Heather Des Jardin-Park
Harvard University
Lab of Michael Longaker, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine - Michelle Drews
University of Washington
Lab of Carla Shatz, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Sofia Essayan-Perez
MIT
Lab of Thomas Sudhof, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Mollie Friedlander
Bowdoin University
Lab of Seung Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Developmental Biology - Francisco Galdos
Harvard University
Lab of Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Timothy Keyes
Princeton University
Lab of Kara Davis, DO
Program in Cancer Biology - Kei Masuda
Harvard University
Lab of Lisa Giocomo, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Katherine McNamara
Princeton University
Lab of Christina Curtis, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Suhas Rao
Harvard University
Lab of Roger Kornberg, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Madeleine Scott
MIT
Lab of Purvesh Khatri, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Kevin Thomas
Arizona State University
Lab of Scott Delp, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics - Jeffrey Wang
Harvard University
Lab of Raag Airan, MD, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Adele Xu
Stanford University
Lab of Maria Barna, PhD
Department of Genetics
- Amin Aalipour
Stanford University
Lab of Sanjiv Gambhir, MD, PhD
Department of Bioengineering - Amira Barkal
Oregon State University
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Winston Becker
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Lab of William Greenleaf, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Binbin Chen
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lab of Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Department of Genetics - Leighton Daigh
Georgetown University
Lab of Tobias Meyer, PhD
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology - Jonathan Goodman
University of Pennsylvania
Lab of Gary Glover, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Gunsagar Gulati
Harvard University
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Cancer Biology - Joy He
Harvard University
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Lorenzo Labitigan
Yale University
Lab of Julie Theriot, PhD
Department of Biochemistry - Akshay Maheshwari
UC San Diego
Lab of Drew Endy, PhD
Department of Bioengineering - Daniel Mokhtari
MIT
Lab of Daniel Herschlag, PhD
Department of Biochemistry - Benjamin Ober-Reynolds
Arizona State University
Lab of William Greenleaf, PhD
Department of Genetics - Ragini Phansalkar
University of Connecticut
Lab of Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Department of Genetics - John Pluvinage
Stanford University
Lab of Tony Wyss-Coray Lab, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Akshay Sanghi
John Hopkins
Lab of Michael Snyder, PhD
Department of Genetics - Stanford Schor
Caltech
Lab of Shirit Einav, MD
Program in Cancer Biology - Benjamin Smith
Pomona College
Lab of Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology - Avin Veerakumar
University of Pennsylvania
Lab of Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD
Department of Bioengineering - Jessica Verhein
UC Davis
Lab of Krishna Shenoy, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Ericka von Kaeppler
Yale University
Lab of Bill Robinson, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- Daniel Berenson
Yale University
Lab of Jan Skotheim, PhD
Department of Biology - Yonglu Che
Yale University
Lab of Paul Khavari, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Thomas Chew
UC San Diego
Lab of Liang Feng, PhD
Program in Biophysics - Sasidhar Madugula
University of Illinois
Lab of EJ Chichilnisky, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Cesar Marquez
Harvard University
Lab of Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
Program in Cancer Biology - Payton Marshall
UC Berkeley
Lab of Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD
Program in Immunology - Arek Melkonian
UC Los Angeles
Lab of Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering - Paras Minhas
University of Pittsburgh
Lab of Katrin Andreasson, MD
Program in Neurosciences - Surya Nagaraja
University of Michigan
Lab of Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Yong Tang
UC San Diego
Lab of Ellen Yeh, MD, PhD
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology - Nielson Weng
UC Berkeley
Lab of Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Department of Chemistry - Catherine Yao
UC Los Angeles
Lab of Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
- Christopher Dove
Truman State University
Lab of Ravi Majeti, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Benjamin Dulken
University of Washington
Lab of Anne Brunet, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - Megan Garland
Boston University
Lab of Matt Bogyo, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Benson George
MIT
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Cancer Biology - Lichy Han
Johns Hopkins University
Lab of Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics - Brian Hsueh
Princeton University
Lab of Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Grant Lin
Indiana University
Lab of Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Amar Mirza
University of Georgia
Lab of Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Suchita Rastogi
Washington University
Lab of John Boothroyd, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology - Caitlin Roake
Stanford University
Lab of Steven Artandi, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology - Shyam Sathyamoorthi
Tulane University
Lab of Richard Zare, PhD
Department of Chemistry - Zahra Sayyid
Stanford University
Lab of Albert Cheung, MD
Program in Neurosciences - Holly Stewart
Tufts University
Lab of Jennifer Ahern, PhD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
- Laura Bloomfield
Stanford University
Lab of James Holland Jones, PhD
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Resources - Liana Bonanno
Ohio State University
Lab of Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Cordelia Erickson-Davis
Mount Holyoke
Lab of S. Lochlann Jain, PhD
Department of Anthropology - Daniel Kim
MIT
Labs of Paul Khavari MD, PhD, and Anshul Kundaje, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics - Christopher Mount
University of Washington
Lab of Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences - Luke Pennington
Haverford College
Lab of Ted Jardetzky, PhD
Program in Immunology - Gerald Tiu
Harvard University
Lab of Maria Barna, PhD
Department of Genetics