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2020 and prior - News
2020 and prior - News
Congratulations to Meenakshi Ravichandran on her SNSF Fellowship
Blau lab receives grant from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation and the Stanford Innovative Medicines Accelerator
Will Wang awarded K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Helen Blau and Sarah Heilshorn awarded 2020 Keck Foundation Medical Research Award
Will Wang speaks in Spatial Multiomics Webinar Series: Enriching Spatial Proteomic Data with Parallel CITE-seq Analysis Elucidates Multiomic Changes with Aging
Increased tissue stiffness triggers contractile dysfunction and telomere shortening in dystrophic cardiomyocytes published in Stem Cell Reports
Markov et al. published in PNAS
2021 - 2022 - News
2021 - 2022 - News
Madl et al., published in Biomaterials
Congratulations to Christopher Madl on his K99 Award
Mohsen Afshar awarded SUMS Seed Grant
Chris Madl speaks at M&I weekly Seminar Series
Reversing Aging for Heart Repair published in Science
Mohsen Afshar Awarded Dean's Fellowship
Blau Lab Awarded an Inaugural Milky Way Research Foundation Grant
Helen Blau Elected to the ISSCR Board of Directors
Tamoxifen study published in Nature Regenerative Medicine
"Primary cilia on muscle stem cells are critical to maintain regenerative capacity and are lost during aging" published in Nature Communications
Helen Blau presents in 2021-2022 TRAM Lecture series
Helen Blau Co-Organizes 2022 Pontifical Academy of Sciences Stem Cell Meeting
Will Wang speaks in the Myogenesis Discussion group sponsored by Medicine by Design at the University of Toronto
Asuka Eguchi awarded a Career Development Grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association
Blau lab, past and present, meet at the 2022 FASEB Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells and Regeneration Conference in New Orleans
Dan Robinson and Minas Nalbandian awarded travel fellowships
Ian Stancil awarded T32 from the Buck Institute
Leahlyn Mamuyac presents at the Stanford CVI 2022 Summer Research Symposium
Adriana, Aarushi, and Asuka present their data at the 2022 BioX Summer Poster Session
Helen Blau Speaks at CVI Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminar Series
Blau lab hosts M&I “Regenerating Happy Hour"
"Plasticity of muscle stem cells in homeostasis and aging" published
Asuka Eguchi speaks at CVI Early Career Symposium
Dan Robinson awarded Best PhD Thesis by the University of Ottawa
Elena Monti presents Rejuvenating aged skeletal muscle by targeting a gerozyme at the 2022 BAAM at UCSF
2023 - 2024 - News
2023 - 2024 - News
"Machine learning-based classification of dual fluorescence signals reveals muscle stem cell fate transitions in response to regenerative niche factors" published in NPJ Regenerative Medicine
Helen Blau on "The Future of Everything"
Current and former Blau lab members jointly publish Cell Reports article
Helen Blau speaks at the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Porpiglia and Blau article featured on the cover of Science Advances
Undergraduates Ari and Ireh awarded Stanford BioX Summer Undergraduate Research Awards.
Asuka Eguchi awarded a CVI Travel Fellowship
Helen Blau speaks at the 2023 Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Research Symposium
Stanford 2023 Drug Discovery Symposium, April 24-25, 2023
Asuka Eguchi presents at the M&I Wednesday Seminar series
Helen Blau and Sarah Heilshorn awarded a 2023-24 Shriram Synthetic Biology Seed Grant
Asuka Eguchi awarded a Travel Grant from CVI Mavens
Emmeran Le Moal joins Blau Lab as Senior Scientist
Elena Monti Awarded Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowship
Helen Blau delivers Earnest McCulloch Memorial Lecture at the 2023 ISSCR Annual Meeting
Daniel Robinson Awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Federation for Aging Research
Boaz Goldberg presents at the 2023 CVI Early Career Symposium
Minas presents at M&I Seminar Series
Helen Blau speaks on The Stem Cell Podcast
Emmeran LeMoal Named Field Foundation Scholar
Elena Monti presents at 2023 Gordon Myogenesis Conference
Minas Nalbandian presents at the 2023 Frontiers in Myogenesis Comference
Minas presents at CVI Research Symposium
Blau lab presents at the 2024 Stanford Innovation Showcase
Dan Robinson attends 2024 Glenn AFAR Grantee Conference
Minas presents at Cell Symposium: Exercise Metabolism
Jewel Awarded 2024 SoM Dean's Fellowship
Helen Blau Inducted to Austrian Academy of Sciences
Alesso Rotini awarded inaugural Society for Muscle Biology Helen M Blau Skeletal Muscle Research Prize for Early Career Investigators
Helen Blau speaks at 2024 Summer BioX Seminars
Helen Blau Inducted to The Royal Society
Muscle Stem Cell Mechanical Memory study Published in PNAS
Ari and Ireh Present at 2024 BioX Symposium
Minas Presents at Bay Area Metabolism Meeting
Helen Blau elected to EMBO
Stem Cells to the Rescue published
Blau and Heilshorn Awarded 2024 BioX Seed Grant
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Helen M. Blau
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
(650) 723-6209
hblau@stanford.edu
Senior Scientist, Fellows, and Postdoctoral Scholars
Emmeran Le Moal
Senior Scientist
emmeran@stanford.edu
Elena Monti
Postdoctoral Scholar
elemonti@stanford.edu
Sophie Rengarajan
Fellow
sophie10@stanford.edu
Minas Nalbandian
Postdoctoral Scholar
mnalband@stanford.edu
Jewel Banik
Postdoctoral Scholar
jbanik@stanford.edu
Daniel Robinson
Postdoctoral Scholar
drobi92@stanford.edu
Undergraduates
Ari Arias
Undergraduate
ariarias@stanford.edu
Ireh Kim
Undergraduate
irehkim@stanford.edu
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Peggy Kraft
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pkraft@stanford.edu
Kelly Li
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Kassie Koleckar
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Kaitlin Jeuris
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Izzy Larios
Support Technician
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Cindy Paulazzo
Executive Assistant to Helen Blau
cindy.paulazzo@stanford.edu
Megan Mayerle
ADFA & Research Development Specialist
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