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.