MCHRI News & Updates
22q11 Deletion Syndrome Virtual Symposium
Join us this Wednesday, November 10, 2021 for the 3rd Biennial 22q11 Deletion Syndrome Virtual Symposium! This event will bring together an interdisciplinary community of clinicians, basic scientists and translational investigators to highlight new research and emerging topics in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS), and aims to foster close interdisciplinary discourse.
Annual MCHRI Symposium
Thank you for attending the 4th Annual MCHRI Symposium, set for October 28! This was an opportunity for instructors, fellows, residents, postdocs, students, and faculty of all disciplines from Stanford to share their latest research in maternal or child health.
DRIVE students present updates from their summer research projects, concluding pilot program
Congratulations to the inaugural cohort for the DRIVE (Diversity, Respect, and Inclusion are Vital for Excellence) in Research Pipeline Program! After spending the summer working with faculty mentors, the students presented their research projects on August 25th.
Gut It Out Foundation fundraise for research on health equity in IBD
The Gut It Out Foundation, founded by Jake and Amanda Diekman, is fundraising to support the work of MCHRI to fund a pilot grant for research the structural racism, social injustice, and health disparities in inflammatory bowel disease.
Stanford Medicine News
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Whack-a-mole vaping policies do not protect youth, Stanford Medicine study shows
Flavored disposable e-cigarettes attractive to young users proliferated after the most recent round of FDA policy announcements, negating the policies’ intended effects, a Stanford study found.
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Smartwatches alert wearers to bodily stress, including COVID-19
Stanford Medicine researchers created an algorithm to notify smartwatch wearers of stress, capturing events such as air travel, extended exercise and illness.
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Pandemic sparked key innovations, experts say
In the final installment of The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19, leaders in government, academia, health care and business said biomedical and digital health advances of the last few years will help combat future health crises.
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