Cancer Biology Annual Scientific Conference

October 27-28, 2023 

Chaminade Resort Santa Cruz

Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to King Hung (and PI Howard Chang). To receive the 2023 Weintraub Award! 

Biosciences PhD students began their careers at Stanford School of Medicine with crisp new lab coats, advice on graduate school success and warm words about the value of discovery.

First-year graduate students in the biosciences donned lab coats provided by the Stanford Medicine Alumni Association at a ceremony marking the beginning of their studies.

December 10, 2020

NASA announced the members of the Artemis team of astronauts, who will participate in missions on and around the moon. Three Stanford alumni – NICOLE MANN, MS ’01; KATE RUBINS, PhD ’06; and JESSICA WATKINS, BS ’10 – are among the 18 astronauts chosen to be part of the “Artemis Team.”

According to the press release from NASA, the Artemis program will “land the first woman and next man on the moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable human lunar presence by the end of the decade.”

https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2020/12/10/three-stanford-alums-among-nasa-artemis-astronauts-heading-to-the-moon/

June 1, 2020

Student Award Excellence in Teaching Award

Fiorella Grandi, Cancer Biology student in Nidhi Bhutani Lab, has been selected for the 2019-20 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Teaching Award. This award recognizes a student whose teaching distinguishes them as valued contributors to the School of Medicine and Biosciences community.

June 1, 2020

Student Award Excellence in Service to Graduate Students

Brooks Benard, Cancer Biology student in Ravi Majeti Lab, has been selected for the 2019-20 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Service to Graduate Students. This award recognizes students who devote a large amount of time trying to improve the quality of the Stanford graduate student experience.

June 16, 2019

Student Award Excellence in Service to Graduate Students

Julie Ko, Cancer Biology student in Julien Sage Lab, has been selected for the 2018-19 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Service to Graduate Students. This award recognizes students who devote a large amount of time trying to improve the quality of the Stanford graduate student experience.

June 16, 2019

Student Award Excellence in Teaching 

Michael Dubreuil, Cancer Biology student in Michael Bassik Lab, has been selected for the 2018-19 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Teaching Award. This award recognizes a student whose teaching distinguishes them as valued contributors to the School of Medicine and Biosciences community.

June 14, 2018

Student Award for Excellence in Teaching  

Caitlin Roake, Cancer Biology and MSTP student in Steven Artandi lab, has been selected for the 2017-18 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Teaching Award. This award recognizes a student whose teaching distinguishes them as valued contributors to the School of Medicine and Biosciences community.

June 14, 2018

Student Award Excellence in Service to Graduate Students

Irene Li, Cancer Biology student in Sylvia Plevritis Lab, has been selected for the 2017-18  2017-18 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Service to Graduate Students. This award recognizes students who devote a large amount of time trying to improve the quality of the Stanford graduate student experience.

May 23, 2018

Howard Chang is announced as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Howard Chang, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, is one of the new  Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.

Oct 18, 2017

Howard Chang elected to National Academy of Medicine

Howard Chang, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, has been elected members of the National Academy of Medicine.

Oct 13, 2017

2017 STAT Wunderkind

Alumnus Daniel E. Webster, Ph.D., recognized as a “2017 STAT Wunderkind”.  He was in Dr. Paul Khavari Lab and is currently a Damon Runyon Fellow at the National Cancer Institute working with Dr. Louis Staudt on B cell lymphoma genomics. 

The Landers, Doudnas, and Bradners of the world grab plenty of headlines. So we set out to find the next generation of scientific superstars. Over the past several months, a team of STAT editors and reporters pored through nearly 300 nominations from across North America. We didn’t set an age limit; we were on the hunt for the most impressive doctors and researchers on the cusp of launching their careers but not yet fully independent. Most were postdocs, fellows, and biopharma employees working with more senior scientists. All are blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in medicine. Meet the 2017 STAT Wunderkinds.

Oct 9, 2017

Study uncovers mutation that supercharges tumor-suppressor

Laura Attardi, PhD, Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology and of Genetics, and her collegues have found a mutation in the p53 tumor-suppressor protein that turns it into a "super" suppressor.

Apr 10, 2017

Monounsaturated fats help roundworms live longer

Anne Brunet and her team were surprised to find that pudgy roundworms that accumulated more monounsaturated fat in their bodies had longer life spans than thinner worms. (Gregg Segal)

Apr 6, 2017

Stanford Medicine researchers named Outstanding Investigators by the National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute has named professor of dermatology HOWARD CHANG, MD, and professor of oncology RONALD LEVY, MD, as recipients of the institute’s Outstanding Investigator Awards for 2016.

Jan 5, 2017

Forbes 30 Under 30: Science

Congratulations to Michelle Atallah (and her PIs Ed Engleman and Parag Mallick) for being selected in the top "30 under 30" by Forbes.

Science judge Cigall Kadoch was a Cancer Biology graduate student in Gerald Crabtree lab.

Dec 4, 2016

Roeland Nusse wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize

Roeland Nusse, PhD, the Virginia and Daniel K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was honored this evening with a 2017 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences.

Video: Roeland Nusse, 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Sept 21, 2016

One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’ expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she and the Biomolecule Sequencer team had sequenced their one billionth base of DNA on the orbiting laboratory.

June 30, 2016

The crew for the next mission to the International Space Station includes Kate Rubins, a NASA astronaut who left a faculty position at MIT to join the space program in 2009. Kate Rubins was a Cancer Biology graduate student at Stanford, where she studied the host response to smallpox and Ebola infection with Pat Brown and David Relman. She then left for MIT as a Whitehead fellow, where she continued that work, including field studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the attached interview with Scientific American, she will be trying to sequence DNA on the ISS. The mission launches on July 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan: 

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-next-international-space-station-crew-launch

June 13, 2016

2016 Stanford Biosciences “Excellence in Mentoring and Service Award”

Amato Giaccia, PhD, the Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor and a professor of radiation oncology, received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Service. This award recognizes faculty who make distinguished contributions toward enhancing the quality of training and the educational experience for biosciences graduate students.