Mark Krasnow

Paul and Mildred Berg Professor

Academic Appointments

Professor, Biochemistry
Member, Bio-X
Member, Cardiovascular Institute
Director, CVI/Vera Moulton Wall Center
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Administrative Appointments

Executive Director, Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease (2010 - Present)
Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine (2006 - 2013)
Associate Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine (2000 - 2006)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997 - Present)
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (1996 - 2002)

Honors & Awards

Member, National Academy of Sciences (2019)
Paul and Mildred Berg Professor, Stanford University (2018)
Member, National Academy of Medicine (2016)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998)
Recipient, Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991-1997)
Recipient, Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award (1987-1993)

Stanford Advisees

Med Scholar Project Advisor
Katherine Prothro
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Rob Bierman, Peter Chou, Chandni Patel
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Xiaoran Guo, SoRi Jang, Andrea Yung
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Josh Head, Avin Veerakumar, Timothy Wu, Helen Yue Zhang

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

Biochemistry (Phd Program)
Cancer Biology (Phd Program)
Medicine (Masters Program)
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (Fellowship Program)
Pediatric Pulmonology (Fellowship Program)
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (Fellowship Program)
Sleep Medicine (Fellowship Program)

All Publications

Profiles With Related Publications

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Jeffrey Axelrod

Professor of Pathology
Research Interests
Genetic and cell biological analyses of signals controlling cell polarity and morphogenesis. Frizzled signaling and cytoskeletal organization.

87 Total Publications
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Philip Beachy

The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Professor of Urology, of Developmental Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
Research Interests
Function of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis (pattern formation), in injury repair and regeneration (pattern maintenance). We study how the distribution of such signals is regulated in tissues, how cells perceive and respond to distinct concentrations of signals, and how such signaling pathways arose in evolution. We also study the normal roles of such signals in stem-cell physiology and their abnormal roles in the formation and expansion of cancer stem cells.

140 Total Publications
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Helen M. Blau

Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
Prof. Helen Blau's research area is regenerative medicine with a focus on stem cells. Her research on nuclear reprogramming and demonstrating the plasticity of cell fate using cell fusion is well known and her laboratory has also pioneered the design of biomaterials to mimic the in vivo microenvironment and direct stem cell fate. Current findings are leading to more efficient iPS generation, cell based therapies by dedifferentiation a la newts, and discovery of novel molecules and therapies.

285 Total Publications
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Alistair Boettiger

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
Research Interests
My lab focuses on investigating the role of three-dimensional genome organization in regulating gene expression and in shaping cell fate specification during development. We pursue this with advanced single-molecule imaging and transgenics.

32 Total Publications
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Patrick O. Brown

Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus
Research Interests
Dr. Brown, currently an emeritus professor, is CEO and founder of Impossible Foods, a company dedicated to replacing the world's most destructive technology - the use of animals to transform plant biomass into meat, fish and dairy foods - by developing a new and better way to produce the world's most delicious, nutritious and affordable meats, fish and dairy foods directly from plants. Visit impossiblefoods.com for more information.

323 Total Publications
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Stanley N. Cohen, MD

Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
Research Interests
We study mechanisms that affect the expression and decay of normal and abnormal mRNAs, and also RNA-related mechanisms that regulate microbial antibiotic resistance. A small bioinformatics team within our lab has developed knowledge based systems to aid in investigations of genes.

331 Total Publications
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Gerald Crabtree

David Korn, MD, Professor of Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
Research Interests
Chromatin regulation and its roles in human cancer and the development of the nervous system. Engineering new methods for studying and controlling chromatin and epigenetic regulation in living cells.

236 Total Publications
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Andrew Fire

George D. Smith Professor of Molecular and Genetic Medicine and Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
Research Interests
We study natural cellular mechanisms for adapting to genetic change. These include systems activated during normal development and those for detecting and responding to foreign or unwanted genetic activity. Underlying these studies are questions of how a cells can distinguish information as "self" versus "nonself" or "wanted" versus "unwanted".

179 Total Publications
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Margaret T. Fuller

Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology and Professor of Genetics and of Obstetrics/Gynecology (Reproductive and Stem Cell Biology)
Research Interests
Regulation of self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation in adult stem cell lineages. Developmental tumor suppressor mechanisms and regulation of the switch from proliferation to differentiation. Cell type specific transcription machinery and regulation of cell differentiation. Developmental regulation of cell cycle progression during male meiosis.

122 Total Publications
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Daria Hekmat-Scafe

Lecturer

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Jill Helms

Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
Research Interests
Dr. Helms' research interests center around regenerative medicine and craniofacial development.

206 Total Publications
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Julia Kaltschmidt

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
The lab’s primary research interest is to understand how specific neuronal circuits are established. We use mouse genetics, combinatorial immunochemical labeling and high-resolution laser scanning microscopy to identify, manipulate, and quantitatively analyze synaptic contacts within the complex neuronal milieu of the spinal cord and the enteric nervous system.

26 Total Publications