Latest News!!
September 2021 - Dr. Jesse Engreitz and Dr. Tom Quertermous were selected to lead a Functional Characterization Center for the inaugural NIH/NHGRI Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) consortium. Learn more about consortium efforts here, in a press release by NHGRI.
June 2021 - Engreitz Lab postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Gabriella Martyn, was awarded 2 postdoctoral fellowships for her work on linking variants to their effects on target genes via prime editing mediated mutagenesis. She will be supported by the Stanford School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Walter V. and Idun Berry Postdoctoral Scholarship.
June 2021 - BASE Faculty Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott (Dept. of Bioengineering) was selected as a 2021 Baxter Foundation Faculty Scholar for his work on “Laser 3D Printed Human Capillary Models to Study SARS-CoV-2 Entry”. Congrats, Mark!
May 2021 - Two Skylar-Scott Lab graduate students were selected as recipients of the Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellowship. Joshua Sampson, Bioengineering PhD student, will study “Optical Coagulation for 3D Bioprinting In Vitro and Directed Homeostasis In Vivo” (Bio-X co-mentors: Dr. Steven Boxer, Dr. Michael Ma). Jonathan Weiss, Bioengineering PhD student, will work on “Organ-scale Biofabrication: 3D Bioprinting of Engineered Pluripotent Stem Cells to Form a Mature Human Ventricle” (Bio-X co-mentor: Dr. Joe Woo).
April 2021 - Dr. Jesse Engreitz published a study in Nature (read it here) in which he built genome-wide enhancer maps to systematically connect thousands of noncoding disease variants to functions in specific cell types. Using inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as a testbed, the team accurately predicted which enhancers contain risk variants for IBD and experimentally validated these results by modulating a predicted enhancer in immune cells in vitro. Learn more about the study here, in a story released by the Broad Institute.
March 2021 - Two BASE graduate students were awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Skylar-Scott Lab Bioengineering PhD student Jonathan Weiss will study “Genomic Engineering of Pluripotent Stem Cells to Enable Whole Organ-Scale 3D Bioprinting” and Engreitz Lab Genomics PhD student Michael Montgomery’s project will focus on “Untangling Temporal Dynamics of Enhancer-Gene Interactions In Cardiomyocyte Differentiation”.
January 2021 - Engreitz Lab postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Dulguun Amgalan, was awarded 2 prestigious fellowships for her project “Regulatory maps of endothelial cell differentiation to connect congenital heart disease risk variants to target genes”. Her work will be supported by the American Heart Association + Children’s Heart Foundation Congenital Heart Defect Research Award and the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Initiative Postdoctoral Support Award.
November 2020 - Dr. Casey Gifford joins Stanford and BASE as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics. Her lab will focus on identifying the complex genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular development and disease.
October 2020 - Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott and Dr. Michael Ma (Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery) were awarded a 2020 Seed Grant from Stanford’s Cardiovascular Institute & Maternal and Child Health Research Initiative for their proposal “Development of Optogenetic Thrombin for Light-directed Hemostasis During Unifocalization Surgery” in collaboration with Dr. Doff McElhinney (Depts of Pediatrics and Cardiovascular Surgery) and Dr. Steven Boxer (Dept. of Chemistry).
September 2020 - Dr. Jesse Engreitz was selected as a 2020 NHGRI Genomic Innovator for his work to "Apply CRISPR tools to understand gene regulation related to common, complex diseases".