Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical School and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University.

Lab services manager Cathy Booth and computing support analyst Brian Palermo will be honored with the 2021 Marsh O’Neill Award for Exceptional and Enduring Support of Stanford University's Research Enterprise.

A talk with Nobel laureate Thomas C. Südhof about a scandal rocking the world of Alzheimer’s research and how conceptions of the disease are changing.

Understanding that traditional treatments don’t work for every pain patient, researchers and clinicians are pursuing individualized remedies.

Mucus is an unsung hero of a healthy body, essential to its function but rarely scrutinized. Perhaps surprisingly, the manner of its secretion strongly resembles, on the molecular level, one of the most intensively studied physiological phenomena: neurotransmitter release.

A game-changing technique for imaging proteins — cryogenic electron microscopy — enables discovery of the structure of nearly any molecule within a few days, deepening our understanding of diseases and how to treat them.

Relocating its medical school to Palo Alto set the stage for Stanford medical students, researchers and physicians to be leaders in accelerating biomedical discoveries and advances.

Several members of MCP have been selected as winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards, presented by the Neuroscience Microscopy Service (NMS) and sponsored by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Carl Zeiss.