MCHRI News & Updates
Monday, February 10, 2025, 12pm-1pm
MCHRI Team Science and Translational Medicine Program: Prioritizing Diverse Collaboration to Accelerate Innovation
Join this MCHRI seminar to learn about our inaugural Team Science and Translational Medicine Faculty Development Program, which uniquely supports teams with diverse subject-matter expertise, led by a junior faculty member, in collaboratively accelerating an innovative vertical. We will share our curriculum, intentionally designed to support the varied needs of a rapidly-accelerating project, and our vision for the growth of the program. We will also highlight the work of Juliet Knowles and the advancements she has been able to make in her project advancing the treatment of synaptopathies since participating in the February 2024 program.
Speakers:
Grant Wells, MS, Director of Innovation & Development, Stanford MCHRI
Juliet Knowles, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and of Pediatrics
Tuesday February 25, 2025, 9:30am-11am
Conducting Clinical Research at Stanford Medicine Children's Health (SMCH)
*New Research Training Opportunity*
Led by MCHRI's Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO), this course will allow you to understand specific SMCH requirements for conducting clinical research projects at LPCH/SMCH. You will learn how to be able to identify hospital specific resources available to research teams. In addition, understand where information about maternal and child health research policies, procedures, and resources live. This course will also develop familiarity with operational and informatics-related hospital workflows and resources to successfully set up and implement clinical research projects at LPCH/SMCH.
Stanford Medicine News
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Stanford Medicine's top scientific advancements of 2024
Looking back on 2024, science writers at the Office of Communications picked some of the most significant scientific achievements at Stanford Medicine.
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Stanford scientists transform ubiquitous skin bacterium into a topical vaccine
Stanford University scientists' findings in mice could translate into a radical, needle-free vaccination approach that would also eliminate reactions including fever, swelling and pain.
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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, nominated as director of National Institutes of Health
The goal of the Clinical and Translational Science Award is to convert new treatments into care more rapidly.