Faculty Directors
Michael Snyder, PhD
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics
Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine
David K. Stevenson, MD
Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics
Senior Associate Dean for Maternal & Child Health
Co-Director, Child Health Research Institute
Principal Investigator, March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Karl Sylvester, MD
Associate Dean of Maternal Child Health Research
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine
Executive Director Fetal and Maternal Health Program
Tina Cowan, PhD
Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, Pediatrics
Director, Clinical Biochemical Genetics Laboratory
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Bio-X
Staff Directors
Scientific Director
Samuel Lancaster, PhD
As Scientific Director of the Metabolic Health Center at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lancaster researches metabolomics to investigate disease etiologies, discover diagnostics, and identify potential targets for interventions in pregnant mothers and newborns, as well as prebiotic dietary fiber supplementation to predictably alter the human microbiome and metabolome.
Dr. Lancaster hopes to combine these into research programs and use dietary interventions to improve pregnant mothers' health.