Department: Pediatrics

Research Associate

Basic Life Science Research Associate

Director of Research in the Department of Pediatrics Includes oversight of research administration and compliance, training and mentoring of research administration staff, membership of Research Advisory Committee.

Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Coordinator. Academic support for the division of Pediatric Rheumatology. Assistant to Christy I. Sandborg, M.D.

Bioinformatics Scientist

Maren Grainger-Monsen creates films and education programs that touch people emotionally and intellectually to cause them to think deeply about important issues in healthcare, change health policy and improve patient care. She has developed a signature style of interweaving documentary footage with beautiful stylistic imagery and sound to create visually, intellectually and emotionally stirring documentaries for medical students, healthcare providers and the general public.

Data mining data mining and databasing in immunoinformatics; prediction of adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals; design and development of data extraction programs, including semantic encoding, of biomedical data; multiple roles in Human Immunology Project initiative within the Butte lab: standards development, development of immune signatures; Next-Gen sequence analysis in the Kay lab, including Amazon Cloud deployments. Prediction of birth prematurity using a meta-analysis approach.

Includes grants management, preparing various financial analysis and responsible for all areas of staff personnel management for the division.

Senior Research Scholar, Department of Pediatrics

My research focuses on the political, legal, ethical and economic impacts of stem cell research. Topics include: embryonic and adult stem cell research and clinical trials, stem cell banking, human-animal chimeras; cell and gamete donation; international perspectives of bioethics; global economic impacts; national and state regulatory policy, stem cell entrepreneurship, intellectual property and offshore stem cell transplants.

Tobin is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She obtained her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Washington and did postdoctoral research in Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley and in Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. She became a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1983 and moved to Stanford University in 1996. Her research contributions have been published in presti..

Senior Research Scientist

Senior Research Scientist