Stanford School of Medicine

Key Documents

Michele Calos

Contact Information

  • Clinical Offices

Professional Education

  • B.A., Oxford University Zoology
  • Ph.D., Harvard University Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  • Postdoc., University of Geneva Biologie Moleculaire

Postdoctoral Advisees

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

Industry Relationships

Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industry partners. It is our policy to disclose payments of $5,000 or more, equity valued at $5,000 or more in a publicly traded company, or any equity in a privately held company, to physicians and scientists employed by Stanford University from companies or other commercial entities with which they interact as part of their professional activities. 

  • Consulting: Pain Therapeutics, Inc.

Research Interests

Our current research is focused on development of novel vectors and strategies for gene therapy. Our primary approach is development of vectors that will integrate at specific sites in the genome. We use the phiC31 phage integrase to mediate genomic integration. We are improving the basic technology, as well as applying it to a diverse set of tissues and diseases.

We are currently delivering integrating plasmid DNA vectors using naked DNA and in vivo and ex vivo electroporation. We are working with animal models for diseases involving blood, eye, muscle, liver, and other tissues.

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