Of Note

Marvin Langston, PhD

Langston, an assistant professor of epidemiology and population health, has been selected as a member of the inaugural cohort of Cancer Moonshot scholars. The program, launched by President Biden in 2022, supports early-career researchers and helps build a cancer research workforce that better represents the diversity of America. Langston will receive $2.9 million over five years to focus on examining diverse risk-based approaches to prostate cancer screening. Langston will work with researchers from Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Learn more here.

Nicole Martinez, PhD

The assistant professor of chemical and systems biology and developmental biology, and Sarafan ChEM-H institute scholar, has been selected as a 2023 Rita Allen Foundation award scholar. The Rita Allen Foundation honors scholars because of their bold approaches to basic scientific questions that address problems of global concern, as well as their potential for learning, leadership and collaboration. Martinez will receive $500,000 to study how chemical modifications to ribonucleic acid regulate gene expression during neurodevelopment and how their dysregulation contributes to neurodevelopmental disorders. Learn more here.

Olivia Martinez, PhD

Martinez has been named the Johnson & Johnson Professorship in Surgery III. Martinez’s laboratory studies immune responses to virus and alloantigen in transplantation. Learn more here.

Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD

The assistant professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery has received the New Innovator Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award supports postdoctoral and other candidates who propose novel and insightful research concepts with the potential to produce a major impact, test scientific paradigms or advance key concepts on important problems in biomedical research of priority to NIAID. Reticker-Flynn will receive $1.5 million over five years to develop therapies for controlling immune responses within lymph nodes. Learn more here.

Ivan Soltesz, PhD

The James R. Doty Professor in Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, Soltesz received the 2023 Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. He was chosen for his dedication to diversity and inclusion, the rigorous quality of his research, and the notable impact he has had and continues to have on his trainees.Learn more here.

Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD

The post-doctoral medical fellow and resident in radiation oncology has been selected as a participant of the 2023-2024 Obama Foundation Leaders USA program. Participants will engage in a six-month program focused on developing values-based leadership to become changemakers who will make positive and lasting impacts in the world. Learn more here.

Lori Muffly, MD

The associate professor of blood and marrow transplantation and cellular therapy has been awarded one of five Equity in Access grants from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Muffly, along with researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Davis, will use the $750,000 grant to understand how different insurance types held by adolescents and young adults with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia influence access to specialized cancer care. They will also evaluate the cost of care for young adult leukemia patients in different care settings. Learn more here.

Kacper Rogala, D.Phil.

The assistant professor of structural biology and chemical and systems biology has been awarded a grant from the Lustgarten Foundation. The $110,000 award will support Rogala and his team in developing novel therapeutics for pancreatic cancer. The team is using powerful electron microscopes to image proteins that enable growth of cancer cells. They use those detailed images to reveal how proteins work and as a guide to develop strategies against hard-to-treat cancers of the pancreas. Learn more here.

Sneha Ramakrishna, MD

The assistant professor of pediatric hematology and oncology has been awarded one of eight research grants from the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation. ChadTough grants fund research toward a cure for pediatric brain cancer diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma and diffuse midline glioma. The grant, totaling $400,000 over the next three years, will support Ramakrishna in understanding why CAR T-cell therapy succeeds or fails, with the aim of enhancing and optimizing the treatment. The grant is co-funded by Tough2gether Against DIPG/DMG. Learn more here.

Garry Gold, MD

Gold, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, has received the 2023 Gold Medal Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Gold is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to magnetic resonance imaging of musculoskeletal conditions, which include advancing MRI techniques to quantitatively characterize and improve understanding of osteoarthritis and joint disease. Learn more here.

Paul Heidenreich, MD, and Alexander Sandhu, MD

Heidenreich, a professor of cardiology, has been awarded a grant by the American Heart Association. The grant is part of the Health Equity Research Network’s initiative, Improving Access to Care and Other Health Inequities in Rural America, which is focused on advancing understanding of the factors that impact health in rural America. Heidenreich and his team, including Sandhu, an instructor of cardiovascular medicine, will receive a $2.8 million grant over four years. The team will train pharmacists on heart failure care and determine if this approach expands heart failure care delivery in rural areas. They will also evaluate if a smartphone application promoting patient engagement developed by the AHA-funded Heart Health Technology Center, led by Sandhu, facilitates heart failure management. Learn more here.

Craig Levin, PhD

The professor of radiology has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2023 Mars Shot Fund from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The award recognizes individuals who have made a transformative impact in the field and elevated the value of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. The grants provide resources that translate visionary nuclear medicine imaging, radiopharmaceutical therapy, and data science research or projects into tools or treatments that will help improve the lives of patients. Levin’s grant, in the amount of $500,000, was awarded based on his proposal, “High-sensitivity imaging of multiple breast cancer biomarkers in a single PET/MRI imaging session,” which will investigate and design highly innovative tools, technologies and methods that, if effective, will enhance the lives of breast cancer patients. Learn more here.

Robbie Majzner, MD

Majzner, an assistant professor of pediatric hematology and oncology, has been awarded one of eight research grants from the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation. ChadTough grants fund game-changing research into a cure for pediatric brain cancer diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma/diffuse midline glioma. The grant, totaling $600,000 over the next three years, will fund Majzner and his team’s research into testing and validating a new type of GD2 CAR T-cell that is capable of enhanced persistence and anti-tumor efficacy, providing a more effective strategy for treating patients with DIPG/DMG. The grant is co-funded by the SoSo Strong Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and the Violet Foundation for Pediatric Brain Cancer. Learn more here.

Daphne Martschenko, PhD

Martschenko, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Center for Biomedical Ethics, has been selected as a 2023 Science News SN 10: Scientists to Watch, which recognizes early and mid-career scientists who are making extraordinary contributions to their field. Martschenko’s work focuses on genomics research that is social and ethical, engages the community, and can be clearly communicated. She looks at the downstream effects of the research, especially social harms, and develops strategies to prevent those harms. This is the first time that a bioethicist has been recognized for this award. Learn more here.

Akshay Chaudhari, PhD, David Maron, MD, Fatima Rodriguez, MD, and Alex Sandhu, MD

Sandhu, an instructor of cardiovascular medicine, along with Maron (the C. F. Rehnborg Professor), Chaudhari (assistant professor of radiology), Rodriguez (associate professor of cardiology), and the Incidental Coronary Calcium team have won the Hearst Health Prize for excellence in data science in health care. The honor, which includes a $100,000 prize, was awarded to Sandhu and team for their artificial intelligence solution that helps find patients at risk for heart attack by identifying coronary calcium in existing chest computed tomography scans. Learn more here.

Manali Patel, MD

The associate professor of oncology and staff oncologist at the Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System has been named an Advocacy Champion by the Association for Clinical Oncology. Patel is being recognized for the meaningful contributions she has made to the association’s advocacy activities to ensure that every patient with cancer has access to high-quality care no matter who they are or where they live. Learn more here.

Julia Ransohoff, MD

Hematology and oncology postdoctoral scholar Ransohoff has received the Paul Carbone, MD Fellowship Award from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group. ECOG-ACRIN formally recognizes outstanding scientific leaders through with awards that identify, encourage and recognize investigators in the early years of their careers. Ransohoff will receive a one-time, one-year grant of $25,000 for her research project focused on the tailoring of post-neoadjuvant therapy in patients with high-risk triple-negative breast cancer by detecting minimal residual disease via next-generation sequencing. Learn more here.

Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD

The Shelagh Galligan Professor and professor of pediatric hematology and oncology has received a $100,000 research grant from the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation to help explore new and safer treatments for pediatric cancers. She was awarded the grant for her research on targeting mitochondrial pathways in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Learn more here.

Gabriela Asturias

The medical student received a Student Leader in Global Health award from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. The award honors trainees who have created a program or innovative product that helps people in low-income settings or the environment. Asturias, a Guatemalan native, earned the award for launching the Asistente de Logística Médica Automatizada initiative in Guatemala. Originally created to automate the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 cases, the organization now provides information on vaccines, water and foodborne illnesses, and acute respiratory infections. Recipients are awarded $600 to support ongoing global health activities. Learn more here.

Michele Barry, MD

The senior associate dean of global health, the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor, and director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health has received the Distinguished Leadership award, the highest honor bestowed by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. The award honors recipients for their contributions to improving global health through research, education, advocacy and/or service. Learn more here.

Valerie Chock, MD, Susan Hintz, MD, and Krisa Van Meurs, MD

Chock, associate professor of neonatology; Hintz, professor of neonatal and developmental medicine as well as the Robert L. Hess Family Professor; and Van Meurs, professor of neonatal and developmental medicine, emerita, have received a nearly $4 million grant from the Neonatal Research Network, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The grant will support collaborative, multicenter clinical trials designed to improve health care and outcomes for newborns. Stanford is one of 15 centers around the country to be awarded the grant. Learn more here.

Desmond Edwards, Freja Ekman, Omair Khan and Steven Truong

Stanford Medicine students Edwards (PhD in microbiology and immunology), Ekman (MD and PhD in genetics), Khan (MD and PhD in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine) and Truong (MD and PhD in biosciences) have been named 2023 fellows by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Chosen for their achievements and potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States, each will receive up to $90,000 to support their graduate studies. They are among 30 fellows named for 2023, out of a pool of nearly 2,000 applicants. Learn more here.

Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD, and Serena Yeung, PhD

Professor of surgery Grantcharov and Yeung, an assistant professor of biomedical data science, have been named co-principal investigators on a research project through the Wellcome Leap SAVE (Surgery: Assess/Validate/Expand) program. The goal of the team’s project, which includes a multimillion-dollar award, is to advance surgery using computer vision and explicit technical knowledge. The goal of the SAVE program is to double the number of surgical providers per year, to an additional 100,000 within a decade. Learn more here.

Jinkyung Kim, PhD, and Anthony Ricci, PhD

Research associate Kim and Ricci, professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and director of the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, have received the 2022 Cozzarelli Prize. The award from the National Academy of Sciences is in recognition of their translational research paper, “In vivo real-time imaging reveals megalin as the aminoglycoside gentamicin transporter into cochlea whose inhibition is otoprotective,” which identifies a therapeutic target for preventing antibiotic-induced hearing loss. Learn more here.

Angela Lumba-Brown, MD

The clinical associate professor of emergency medicine and of pediatrics has been appointed, for the second time, to the Center for Disease Control Board of Scientific Counselors. The three-year appointment was made by the Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more here.

Michelle Odden, PhD, and David Rehkopf, ScD

Associate professors Odden (of epidemiology and population health) and Rehkopf (of epidemiology and population health and of medicine) have been awarded a five-year, nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund the Population Health Aging Research – Advancing Health Equity and Diversity program, in which college students from underrepresented and historically excluded groups spend the summer conducting research with Stanford faculty mentors. Learn more here.

Rania Awaad, MD

The clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences has been recognized as one of the top women in faith leaders in the U.S. for her work on mental health in Muslim faith communities. The recognition was celebrated at a recent event, Women on the Frontlines: Celebrating Women Faith Leaders. Hosted by Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, the event honored 15 women faith leaders for their work and leadership in the service of humanity. Learn more here.

Kyle Daniels, PhD

The assistant professor of genetics received a grant from the Hypothesis Fund. The $82,000 grant will support his project exploring whether machine learning can predict synthetic biology solutions that guide cell differentiation of medically relevant cell types. The Hypothesis Fund advances scientific knowledge by supporting early-stage, innovative research that increases our adaptability against systemic risks to the health of people and the planet. Learn more here.

Lipika Goyal, PhD, MPhil

Goyal, an associate professor of medicine and director of gastrointestinal oncology at the Stanford Cancer Center, has been named a recipient of the American Cancer Society’s 2022 Researcher of the Year Award. Recipients are recognized for their work to further the society’s mission to end cancer for everyone. As an ACS clinician scientist development grant recipient, Goyal received critical protected time to study drug resistance in patients with a rare form of liver cancer, cholangiocarcinoma. Her research focuses on why tumors that harbor genetic alterations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor pathway stop responding to inhibitors that target these oncogenic drivers. Learn more here.

Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD, James Korndorffer, MD, and Carla Pugh, MD, PhD

Professors of surgery Grantcharov and Pugh, along with associate professor of surgery Korndorffer, have been named co-principal investigators on a research project through the Wellcome Leap SAVE (Surgery: Assess/Validate/Expand) program. The goal of the team’s project, which includes a multi-million-dollar award, is to demonstrate the capability to train non-MD practitioners to deliver routine laparoscopic surgery with equivalent outcomes to MD surgeons, and to shorten the timeline needed to train surgeons in minimally invasive techniques by a full year. The aim of the SAVE program is to double the number of surgical providers per year, to an additional 100,000 within a decade. Learn more here.

Crystal Mackall, MD

The Ernest and Amelia Gallo professor and professor of pediatrics — hematology and oncology — has received the Edward Netter Leadership Award from the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. The award recognizes an individual who has made unparalleled and groundbreaking research contributions to cell and gene therapy for cancer. Mackall is being recognized for her role as a leader in research and development of gene-edited cellular therapies for cancer, and her lab’s efforts to translate their use into solid tumors. Learn more here.

Billie-Jean Martin, MD, Kara Davis Meister, MD, Angela Rogers, MD, Hyongsok Tom Soh, PhD, and Paul Wang, MD

Soh, professor of radiology and bioengineering; clinical assistant professors Martin (cardiothoracic surgery), Meister (otolaryngology—head and neck surgery) and Rogers (associate professor of pulmonary and critical care); and Wang, the John R. and Ai Giak L. Singleton Director and professor of cardiovascular medicine, have been named co-principal investigators on a research project through the Wellcome Leap SAVE (Surgery: Assess/Validate/Expand) program. The goal of the team’s project, which includes a multi-million-dollar award, is to research continuous monitoring of vital biomarkers during and post-surgery. The aim of the SAVE program is to double the number of surgical providers per year, to an additional 100,000 within a decade. Learn more here.

Shaneice Mitchell, PhD

The instructor in pathology (immunology) has been named a 2023 MOSAIC (Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers) scholar by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The MOSAIC scholar program is designed to facilitate the transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds into independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty positions. The program also includes a grant in the amount of $975,000. Learn more here.

Stanley Qi, PhD

Qi, an associate professor of bioengineering and institute scholar of Sarafan ChEM-H, has been inducted into the 2023 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. Election to the college is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. Qi was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the college “for contributions to the development and dissemination of genome editing techniques." Learn more here.

Nivetha Subramanian, MD

Subramanian, a postdoctoral scholar in nephrology, has received an American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology fellowship. The fellowship is designed to help promising researchers find ways to improve the quality of care for people living with kidney disease and to promote clinical research in nephrology. Subramanian will be researching disparities in COVID-19 and vaccine booster uptake in dialysis. Fellows conduct prevention and outcomes research while receiving advanced training in essential skills such as medical ethics, biostatistics and epidemiology. The program, which includes a grant of up to $80,000 per year for two years, has funded some of the field’s most prominent researchers early in their careers, addressing the shortage of nephrology researchers. Learn more here.

Lianna Wat, PhD

The postdoctoral scholar in pathology has been selected to participate as a young scientist in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for physiology and medicine. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which were established in 1951, provide a globally recognized forum for exchange between Nobel laureates and young scientists. They inspire scientific generations and build sustainable networks of young scientists around the world. Learn more here.

Niaz Banaei, MD

The professor of pathology and of infectious diseases has been elected as one of 65 new fellows to the American Academy of Microbiology for his contributions to infectious diseases diagnostics. The academy recognizes excellence, originality, service and leadership in the microbial sciences. Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Learn more here.

Cristabelle De Souza, PhD

The postdoctoral fellow in pathology has been awarded a three-year grant of $90,000 from the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. The grant will fund De Souza’s research project, in which she aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying desmoid tumor formation and how it impacts the reversion of fibrosis observed in patients. De Souza has also been named the 2022 Dr. Dina Lev Early-Career Investigator. The foundation’s mission is to aggressively fund research to accelerate the development of improved therapies and ultimately find a cure for desmoid tumors. Learn more here.

Francisco Galdos, PhD, and King Hung

Galdos, a stem cell and regenerative medicine MD student, and Hung, a cancer biology PhD student, are two of 12 recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. The award, given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Galdos uses human induced pluripotent stem cells, machine learning and genetic lineage tracing strategies to better understand the development of the human cardiac ventricles. Hung identified a novel mechanism by which tumor-driving oncogenes are amplified and overexpressed outside chromosomes in cancer. Learn more here.

Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD

The assistant professor of emergency medicine has been named a co-principal investigator on a multi-million-dollar award from the Wellcome Leap SAVE (Surgery: Assess/Validate/Expand) program. The goal of the SAVE program is to double the number of surgical providers per year to an additional 100,000 within a decade. Sebok-Syer, along with her co-principal investigators, will work on a project to build a competency-based “precision education” system that assesses individual trainees’ competence and tailors teaching to the level of the individual, thereby reducing training costs and ensuring quality. Learn more here.

Lei Xing, PhD

Xing, a professor of radiation oncology and the Jacob Haimson and Sarah S. Donaldson Professor, has received the Edith H. Quimby Lifetime Achievement award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. The award denotes outstanding scientific achievements in medical physics, influence on the professional development of others or organizational leadership. Learn more here.

Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, Peter Kim, PhD, Taia Wang, MD, PhD

Bertozzi, professor of chemistry; Kim, professor of biochemistry; and Wang, assistant professor of infectious diseases and of microbiology and immunology, have been selected for one of 13 projects supported through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s new Emerging Pathogens Initiative. The EPI supports basic research targeted at preparedness for emerging pathogens. Bertozzi will lead the project, which will focus on developing modular, multifunctional therapeutics from “parts lists” for a broad spectrum of RNA viruses. The award includes a grant of $6 million over three years to support the team’s research. Learn more here.

Catherine Blish, MD, PhD, Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Erin Gibson, PhD, and Michelle Monje, MD, PhD

Blish, professor of medicine; Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Gibson, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; and Monje, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, have been selected for one of 13 projects supported through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s new Emerging Pathogens Initiative. The EPI supports basic research targeted at preparedness for emerging pathogens that could threaten human health. Monje will lead the project, which will focus on elucidating the neurobiology of respiratory infections relevant to understanding and treating post-infectious “brain fog” syndromes, such as that found in long COVID. Learn more here.

Michael Cherry, PhD

Cherry, a professor of genetics, has had a long-running lab project, the Saccharomyces Genome Database” selected by the Global Biodata Coalition as a Global Core Biodata Resource. The resource provides information on the genetics and cell biology of budding yeast for 30 years. The online resource, defined by NIH as a knowledgebase, provides information curated by PhD-trained biocuration scientists in Cherry’s lab. To date, the team has curated over 100,000 published papers on yeast laboratory results. All of this work, which began in 1993, has been funded by grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute. The SGD is one of 37 resources that have been selected from around the world as a GCBD. Learn more here.

Laura Dassama, PhD, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, PhD, and Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD

Dassama, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology; Jacobs-Wagner, professor of microbiology and immunology; and Satpathy, assistant professor of pathology, have been selected for one of 13 projects supported through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s new Emerging Pathogens Initiative. The EPI supports basic research targeted at preparedness for future emerging pathogens that could threaten human health. Jacobs-Wagner will lead the project, which will focus on targeting cell envelope biosynthesis in Borrelia for diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccine discovery. The award includes a grant of $6 million over three years to support the team’s research. Learn more here.

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD

The professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences has been awarded the Japan Prize in Life Sciences for developing methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function. The award honors scientists and researchers worldwide who have contributed significantly to the peace and prosperity of humankind through original and outstanding achievements. Recipients receive a monetary award of $400,000. Learn more here.  

Christopher Gardner, PhD

The Rehnborg Farquhar Professor and director of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center has been appointed to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. Gardner and other members of the committee will develop a scientific report for the secretaries of agriculture and HHS, who will use it to develop the 10th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, expected to be published in 2025. Learn more here.

Juliet Knowles, MD, PhD

The assistant professor of neurology and pediatrics has received the CURE Epilepsy grant. CURE Epilepsy research grants are awarded for cutting-edge research projects with the goal of accelerating treatments, improving outcomes and developing cures. Knowles and her team will receive a grant of $250,000 over two years to study the therapeutic potential for targeting myelin plasticity in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy in which seizures, such as atypical absence seizures, progressively increase despite treatment. Learn more here.

Edward Mariano, MD

Mariano, professor and senior vice chair of the department of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, has received the 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. The award, given annually, is in recognition of Mariano’s leadership, advancements and contributions in regional anesthesiology and pain medicine. Learn more here.

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD

The professor of neurology and neurological sciences has received the Richard Lounsbery award for advancing understanding of pediatric brain cancers and the neurological effects of cancer treatments. The $75,000 prize is given in alternate years by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Académie des Sciences, to young French and American scientists to recognize extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine and to stimulate research and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and France. Learn more here. 

Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD

The professor of pathology and of infectious diseases has been nominated to serve on the U.S. National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats. Forum members include prominent leaders from government agencies, academia, nonprofit foundations, the private sector and international organizations who tackle complex challenges, analyze key topics and strategize responses to microbial threats. Learn more here.

Pinsky has also received the Diagnostic Virology Career Achievement award from the Pan America Society for Clinical Virology. The award recognizes outstanding scientists whose contributions to viral diagnosis have had a major impact on the discipline. Learn more here.

Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

Wu, director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute; the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor; and a professor of cardiovascular medicine and of radiology, is one of 169 distinguished inventors to be inducted into the 2022 National Academy of Inventors class of fellows. Election as an academy fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. Read more here

Deborah Bolding, PhD

Bolding, an occupational therapist, received the Award of Excellence from the Occupational Therapy Association of California during the organization’s annual conference in October. Read more here

Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD

The assistant professor of primary care and population health received a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases New Innovator Award. The $1.5 million award is for the development and testing of a study design for research into sepsis. Read more here

Louis Halamek, MD

Halamek, professor of pediatrics and founding director of the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, received the Avroy Fanaroff Neonatal Education Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The award recognizes Halamek for his work and commitment to educating practitioners in the delivery of care to critically ill newborns. Read more here

Robert Harrington, MD

Harrington, chair of the Department of Medicine and the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor in Medicine, has received the 2022 CLCD Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The award recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the affairs of a scientific council and who have made substantial professional contributions to the field represented by the council. Read more here

Brian Hie, PhD

A postdoctoral scholar in biochemistry, Hie has been named a 2022 STAT Wunderkind for the use of machine learning techniques derived from natural language processing to understand protein evolution. Every year, STAT honors the brightest young minds in health and science — doctors and researchers launching their careers and blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine. Read more here

Caleb Lareau, PhD

Lareau, a Stanford science fellow and postdoctoral scholar in pathology, has been named a 2022 STAT Wunderkind. He is being recognized for using single-cell genomics and other computational technologies to create a cell-by-cell map of normal and cancerous tissue with the goal of identifying new antigens. Every year, STAT honors the brightest young minds in health and science — doctors and researchers launching their careers and blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine. Read more here

Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD

Rodriguez, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate dean of academic affairs, received the 2022 Dolores Shockley Diversity & Inclusion Advancement award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. The award is in recognition of Rodriguez’s dedication to improving opportunities for underrepresented groups in STEM-related disciplines. Read more here

Sandya Subramanian, PhD

The postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering has been named a 2022 L’Oreal USA For Women in Science fellow. She received a $60,000 grant to employ wearable technology in studying the interactions between the brain, the gut and the nervous system in migraine patients. Read more here

Kristel Tjandra, PhD

The postdoctoral scholar in emergency medicine received the 2022 Excellence in Science Communication Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures. Tjandra has written for Peaceful Science, Asia Research News and Drug Discovery News, among other publications. Read more here

Jennifer Woo, MD

Woo, a fellow in cardiovascular medicine, is the inaugural recipient of the Advanced ACHD Fellows Grant. She received $5,000 in financial assistance from the Heartfelt Dreams Foundation to help her pursue her training in treating congenital heart defect patients. Read more here

Lisa Chamberlain, MD

The professor of pediatrics has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project that uses pediatricians’ offices to promote math education for underrepresented children in rural communities. The grant runs through 2025. Read more here

Iris Gibbs, MD

Gibbs, a professor of radiation oncology, was elected as the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion council chair. In this inaugural role, Gibbs will work with other society leaders to improve radiation oncology workforce diversity, access and equity in patient care, and other goals. Read more here

Natalia Gomez-Ospina, PhD

Gomez-Ospina, an assistant professor of pediatrics, has received a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for her research into using bone marrow–derived cells to treat metabolic diseases. Read more here

Yvonne Maldonado, MD

Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics and of epidemiology and population health as well as the Taube Professor in Global Health and Infectious Diseases, was selected by the American Pediatric Society as the John Howland Award Recipient for 2023. The John Howland Award is the highest honor given by the society. Read more here

Fatima Rodriguez, MD

The assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine is one of 17 early-career physician scientists to receive a grant for clinical research proposals from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as part of the 2022 Clinical Scientists Development Awards. Rodriguez will receive a grant of $495,000 over three years for her research into incidental calcium to understand risk estimate. Read more here

Irving Weissman, MD

Weissman, a professor of pathology and of developmental biology as well as the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor in Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, was honored with the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. Weissman has made “monumental contributions to hematology over the past 56 years,” and is best known for his work on hematopoiesis, leukemia and hematopoietic stem cells, according to the American Society of Hematology. Read more here

Euan Ashley, MBChB, DPhil, and Victoria Parikh, MD

Ashley, the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Genomics and Precision Health, and Parikh, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, will be working with researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Toronto, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital to “map” every variation in more than 25 assorted disease genes that can cause cardiac diseases predisposing to heart failure and sudden death. The group recently received a four-year, $8.2 million grant from the National Health Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Read more here

Mildred Cho, PhD

Cho, a professor of pediatrics and of medicine, received the Greenwall Foundation’s inaugural Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics. The award recognizes Cho, associate director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, “for excellence in bioethics mentorship and for going above and beyond to support and guide rising bioethics professionals.” Read more here

John Ioannidis, MD, DSc

Ioannidis, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and population health, has been awarded the inaugural Harwood Prize for Intellectual Courage from the American Institute for Economic Research for his “pioneering work on COVID-19.” The award is presenting to “an intellectual leader in any field of study or profession who exercises unusual courage in standing up for what is true under difficult circumstances — risking even reputational and professional stability — in order to make a difference for the good of society.” Read more here

Praveen Kalra, MD

Kalra, clinical assistant professor in anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, and his team were presented with the first Sustainability Ambassador Award by Stanford Health Care’s Sustainability Program Office. This group significantly reduced the use of Desflurane, an anesthetic gas with greenhouse gas emissions that are 2,500 times more than carbon dioxide. Read more here

Ali Lashkaripour, PhD, and Xiaowei Yan, PhD

Lashkaripour, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering, and Yan, a postdoctoral scholar in dermatology, were named Damon Runyon Fellows by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. They will receive $260,000 apiece to continue their work in cancer research and investigate cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. Read more here

Emma Lundberg, PhD

Lundberg, associate professor of bioengineering and of pathology, is part of a team expected to receive nearly $20 million over the next four years to launch Cell Maps for AI as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence program. Read more here

Robbie Majzner, MD

Majzner, assistant professor of pediatric hematology and oncology, is part of a team that has been awarded £500,000 from Solving Kids’ Cancer UK and five other charities to support the pair’s pre-clinical research into combination antibody therapies for treating chemotherapy-resistant neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. Read more here

Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD

Rohatgi, associate professor of biochemistry and of medicine, was named a member of the Pew Charitable Trusts 2022 class of Innovation Fund investigators. He will be part of a team investigating the regulation of the WNT signaling pathway and its component proteins in colorectal cancer. Read more here

Sara Singer, PhD, and Michael Snyder, PhD

Singer, professor of primary care and population health, and Snyder, the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, are part of a team led by the University of Washington that received $7.8 million to help kick off the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence program. Read more here

Annelise Barron, PhD

The associate professor of bioengineering has been awarded an Oskar Fischer Bronze prize, securing $300,000 to expand research into the understanding of the causes of Alzheimer’s disease. Read more

Jonathan Berek, MD

Berek, the Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor, the founding director of the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center and a senior advisor at the Stanford Cancer Institute, helped lead an effort that established a $1.2 million endowed fellowship in gynecologic oncology. The fellowship, which will ensure the training of the next generation of physician-scientists in gynecologic cancers, will be named in honor of Berek upon his retirement from Stanford. Read more

Robert Malenka, MD, PhD

Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences and the deputy director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, was awarded the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize. He will receive $100,000 for his work in identifying the mechanically distinct forms of synaptic plasticity present in the human brain. Read more

Mark Davis, PhD

A professor of microbiology and immunology, and director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Davis has been elected as the for 2022-2023 president of the American Association of Immunologists, the oldest immunology society in the US, founded in 1913. Davis’ term will begin July 1. Read more

Laurens van de Wiel, PhD

A postdoctoral scholar in bioinformatics, van de Wiel has been awarded $160,000 as part of the Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council. The funding will give van de Wiel and his department, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, the opportunity to gain international experience researching how DNA changes can lead to disease. Read more 

Ivan Soltesz, PhD

A professor of neurosurgery and neurosciences, Soltesz secured a $1 million allotment of funding for Stanford as a result of his contributions to the Expeditions in Computing award-winning program “Expeditions: Mind in Vitro — Computing with Living Neurons.” The award, from the U.S. National Science Foundation, will fund the development of science and technology to fabricate, model, program, scale and embody biological processors. Read more

Lloyd Minor, MD

Minor, professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery and dean of Stanford School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Award of Merit from the American Otological Society. The award recognizes his advances in the understanding of the neurophysiology of the vestibular system and for the discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome. Read more

John Ioannidis, MD

Ioannidis, a physician and professor of epidemiology and population health, has been announced as the president-elect for the American Association of American Physicians, vice president for 2022-2023 and president for 2023-2024. The association is an elected society of physician-scientists who make pioneering and enduring contributions to improve health. Read more

Serena Sanulli, PhD

An assistant professor of genetics, Sanulli is a member of the Searle Scholars new class and was granted $300,000 to fund her research into chromatin atomic-scale dynamics. The Searle Scholars Program supports high-risk, high-reward research in a broad range of scientific disciplines. Read more

Timothy McAdams, MD

McAdams, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery and head physician for the San Francisco 49er football team, was elected president of the NFL Physicians Society. He has worked with the sports team since 2007, has served as vice president of the society and has authored over 40 peer reviewed journal articles in orthopedic surgery. Read more

Hannah Valantine, MD

Valantine, professor of cardiovascular medicine and champion of an inclusive workforce, has received the Distinguished Award for Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion from the American College of Cardiology. Valantine was also a recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation for her research advancing the care of heart transplant patients. Read more 

Allison Kurian, MD, MSc 

Kurian, a professor of oncology, is one of nine researchers to have been recently added to the advisory group of the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen. As a Komen scholar, she joins nearly 50 accomplished leaders in breast cancer research and advocacy, representing more than 20 major health institutions across the United States. Read more

Vivian Lou and Adary (Ada) Zhang 

Medical students Lou and Zhang are the first fellows of a program run by the Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education and the Chinese University Hong Kong. They will earn a master’s degree in public health from the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care in Hong Kong. Read more 

Christina Curtis, PhD

Curtis, an associate professor of oncology and of genetics, received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). This honor is in recognition of her paradigm-shifting research on tumor evolution, including the “big bang” model, which explains how treatment-naïve cancers grow in the absence of therapeutic influence. Curtis’s world-renowned work has also earned her an appointment to the AACR Board of Directors for the 2022–2025 term. 

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Helen Blau, PhD

Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and professor of microbiology and immunology, was elected to the board of directors of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. She has been a member of the society since its inception in 2002 and has served on many of its committees. 

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Fernando Mendoza, MD

Mendoza, associate dean of minority advising and programs and professor of pediatrics, was named the 2022 recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award by the Federation of Pediatric Organizations. Mendoza advocates for underserved pediatric populations and researches immigrant health and policy. 

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Anna Gloyn, DPhil

Gloyn, a professor of pediatrics, is the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, which recognizes research in diabetes that demonstrates independence of thought and originality. She studies the genetic basis of diabetes and pancreatic islet cell dysfunction to advance treatment options for patients. 

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Cristina Alvira, MD

Alvira, an associate professor of pediatrics, has been named the Society for Pediatric Research’s president-elect for the 2022-2023 term. She will be the president of SPR from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2024. Alvira has been an active member of SPR since 2011. 

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Abby King, PhD 

King, professor of epidemiology and population health, is the 2022 Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize recipient. She was selected for her work to provide community members with accessible tools and resources to improve public health in diverse locales.

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