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Awards & Honors October 07, 2025

September 2025 Recognitions

Stanford Medicine professors received several grants — to develop a treatment for a devastating genetic disease, enable advances in functional protein design, improve indoor air quality and create minimally invasive diagnostic tools. Two postdoctoral scholars were honored, one with a grant to support research into lung-brain communication; the other, with an award for his research into brain aging and cognitive decline.
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  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Bonnie Maldonado, MD

    The Taube Professor in Global Health and Infectious Diseases and professor of pediatric infectious diseases as well as of epidemiology and population health, has received a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)...
  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Eric Sun, PhD

    The postdoctoral scholar of genetics and recent graduate of Stanford Medicine’s biomedical data science doctoral program has been selected as one of the six laureates of the 2025 Birnstiel Award by the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology. The...
  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Giulia Notarangelo, PhD

    The postdoctoral scholar of genetics has been named a 2025 fellow of the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science. The fellowship offers postdoctoral researchers from the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences and the humanities the...
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    September 17, 2025
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    Michael Snyder, PhD

    Snyder, the Stanford W. Ascherman, MD, FACS Professor in Genetics, is co-leading an initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health to create a three-dimensional atlas of the human body. The goal is to create the first comprehensive,...
  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD

    Gomez-Ospina, an assistant professor of pediatrics and genetics, has received a grant of $375,000 from the Rosenau Family Research Foundation to develop a stem cell treatment for Krabbe disease.

    Krabbe disease is a severe genetic disorder...
  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Polly Fordyce, PhD

    The associate professor of bioengineering and genetics and institute scholar of ChEM-H has been named a 2025 Schmidt Polymath by Schmidt Sciences, which supports early-to mid- career scientists in tackling breakthrough research in new disciplines....
  • October 7, 2025
     | Awards & Honors

    Tulio Valdez, MD

    The professor of otolaryngology — head and neck surgery has been awarded a grant from the Advancing Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems initiative by the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund Venture Program. The...

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