STANFORD UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) and of Genetics / Research
Anna's current research projects are focused on the translation of genetic association signals for type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits into cellular and molecular mechanisms for beta-cell dysfunction and diabetes. Her group uses a variety of complementary approaches, including human genetics, functional genomics, physiology and islet-biology to dissect out the molecular mechanisms driving disease pathogenesis.
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.
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- CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS
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- Professor of Medicine ( Gastroenterology and Hepatology ), Emerita
Dr Cartwright is a Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology with tenure at Stanford University. She trained at the University of California San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before joining the Stanford Faculty in 1989. Her research in cancer biology focuses on understanding how normal intestinal cells regulate their growth and how loss of that regulation results in malignant transformation. She is an author on numerous scientific publications. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (for 30 years), the American Cancer Society, the Broad Medical Research Foundation and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. She has served on NIH and American Cancer Society Study Sections and on the Editorial Board of the Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology section of the American Journal of Physiology. In 1995 she was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation. In 2008 she received an Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) for her contributions to GI research. She has been an invited speaker, organizer and chairperson for numerous national AGA symposia on the molecular biology of gastrointestinal cancers.
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
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- Dean
- Physician
- Scientist
- Surgeon
- Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine
- CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS
- DEAN, STANFORD SCHOOL of MEDICINE
- Vice Dean Linda M. Boxer
Dean Minor is a leading physician, basic scientist and educator.
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Stanford University. Dr. Minor also is a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University.
As dean, Dr. Minor has had an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine leads the biomedical revolution in Precision Health. His book, "Discovering Precision Health," describes this shift to more preventive, personalized health care and highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases. In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision to transform the future of life sciences at Stanford University and beyond - a multi-decade journey enabled by Precision Health.
In August 2023, Dr. Minor was appointed Vice President for Medical Affairs to lead all matters related to health and medicine at Stanford University.
Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this appointment in 2009, Dr. Minor served as the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders perhaps best known for discovering superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine,
Vice President for Medical Affairs, Stanford University,
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, and Professor of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering, by courtesy
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Stanford University. Dr. Minor is also a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University.
As dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in setting the strategic direction for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford School of Medicine and its two health systems, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. He oversees Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and the enterprise's growing clinical networks and physician practices. In August 2023, Dr. Minor was appointed as Vice President for Medical Affairs to lead all matters related to health and medicine at Stanford University.
As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.
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- Professor of Medicine ( Oncology ) and of Pathology / Research
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.
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- Professor of Genetics ( Stem Cell )
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes believed to control the body's reponses to foreign proteins, which suggests that people may have predictable susceptibility to certain diseases.
Pathologist Irving Weissman isolates a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem cell, which gives rise to all the cells of the blood and immune systems.
Pathologist Irving Weissman identifies the stem cell that gives rise to bladder cancer, and also shows how the cell uses the "don't-eat-me" signal, a molecule known as CD47, to evade the body's defenses.
Pathologist Irving Weissman shows that a single antibody, which counters the effect of the CD47 molecule, shrinks a variety of human tumors transplanted into mice.
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- Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry / Research
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- Associate Professor of Radiology ( Neuroimaging and Neurointervention ) and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
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- Professor of Surgery ( Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery ) Research
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
John Farquhar and Peter Wood lead the first large clinical investigation that shows lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart disease.
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- Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
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- Basic Life Research Scientist, Stem Cell Bio Regenerative Med Institute
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- Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and, by Courtesy, of Biochemistry
Genomic instability contributes to many diseases, but it also underlies many natural processes. The Cimprich lab is focused on understanding how mammalian cells maintain genomic stability in the context of DNA replication stress and DNA damage. We are interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to replication stress and DNA damage as well as the links between DNA damage and replication stress to human disease.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( AC )
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- Basic Science Research Award, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ( JDRF ) ( 2013 )
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology )
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- Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.
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- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular ) and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.
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- Genomics Service Center Interim Director
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- Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus / Research
Dr. Brown's research focuses on replacing humanity's most destructive invention - the use of animals as a food technology - 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. He is also working on developing and scaling optimal methods for restoring healthy ecosystems and sequestering carbon on the 45% of Earth's surface that have been devastated by animal agriculture.
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- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology ( Baxter Labs ) and of Pathology / Research
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.
Radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir develops a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology )
Susan McConnell has studied the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the development of the mammalian cerebral cortex. Her work focused on the earliest events that pattern the developing forebrain, enable neural progenitors to divide asymmetrically to generate young neurons, propel the migration of postmitotic neurons outward into their final positions, and sculpt the fates and phenotypes of the neurons as they differentiate.
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .
Researcher William Haskell shows that intensive lifestyle changes and prevention/treatment programs can reduce cardiac events and slow the progression of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries.
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.