In Brief

The 12 fellows will follow the Stanford program’s usual process of gathering information, identifying needs and developing solutions.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selected 84 young scientists who will receive five-year grants to support their work.

Kara Davis, Melissa Mavers and Liora Schultz awarded St. Baldrick’s Foundation grants.

Robert Arnold, a palliative-care expert at the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss what clinicians can do when conflicts crop up over what constitutes appropriate care.

“HealthPro Advantage: Anti-Doping Education for the Health Professional” is free for health-care professionals and can be taken at the Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education website.

Victor Carrion and Kari Nadeau have been appointed to endowed professorships at the School of Medicine.

The short documentary by Stanford videographer Mark Hanlon captures Paul Kalanithi’s shifting perception of time while living with terminal cancer.

The physician-scientist intends to use the prize money to execute the first multinational microbiome research project focused on noncommunicable disease risk in Africa.

Preference will be given to grant applications that are interdisciplinary and that have a disease focus.

Juliet Knowles, Megan Wyeth and Christopher Makinson awarded American Epilepsy Society grants.