SEAN WU LAB - Key Persons
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.
Aimee Beck graduated in 2004 from UC Riverside with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. She is currently finishing her master's degree in Biotechnology, with an emphasis in stem cell research from California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI). After receiving the CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy Training Grant, Aimee is participating in a one-year internship in the Sean Wu Lab at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. During this internship, Aimee will be studying the mechanisms of cardiac development and congenital heart disease using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to model diseases. Her current research project utilizes CRISPR technology with hiPSC lines in order to fluorescently label chamber-specific cardiomyocytes. With a passion for science and stem cell technology, Aimee plans to pursue a career in the biotechnology industry focusing on congenital heart disease.
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- Postdoctoral Research Mentor
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- Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
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- Assistant Professor of Radiology ( Body MRI )
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- Associate Professor of Genetics / Research
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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- Professor of Radiology ( Body Imaging )
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology - Rad / Nuclear Medicine
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- Electrical Engineering Researcher, Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Adult - MSD ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Neonatology )
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- CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ( Cardiology ) and of Genetics
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- Research Scientist - Basic Life, Medicine - Med / Oncology
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- Younger Family Professor and Professor of Structural Biology / Research
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ), Emeritus
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Critical Care )
The overall objective of the Alvira Laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms that promote postnatal lung development and repair, by focusing on three main scientific goals: (i) identification of the signaling pathways that direct the transition between the saccular and alveolar stages of lung development; (ii) exploration of the interplay between postnatal vascular and alveolar development; and (iii) determination of developmentally regulated pathways that mediate lung repair after injury.
Daniel Hu is an undergraduate student at Stanford University majoring in bioengineering. He is particularly interested in tissue engineering, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine and aspires to become a physician. Besides research, Daniel is involved in a number of volunteer organizations, including Alpha Phi Omega and Pacific Free Clinic. During his spare time, he enjoys swimming and playing basketball with friends.
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- Research Assoc - Experimental, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
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- Assistant
- Program Manager, Cardiovascular Institute
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- Dean
- Physician
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- 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, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- 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 Stanford University 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 has had an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. He oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and in the organization'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.
Dr. Minor has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, between 2012 and 2022, the number of underrepresented students increased from 9.9 percent of incoming PhDs to 24.6 percent and from 14 percent of incoming MDs to 28.9 percent. Other key accomplishments include quadrupling the number of women department chairs and maintaining the highest NIH funding per faculty ratio in the country.
With Dr. Minor's leadership, Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution through Precision Health. Empowering people to lead healthy lives, Precision Health is a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that predicts and prevents disease before it strikes - and cures it decisively if it does. His book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being," highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases.
Dr. Minor also spearheaded the creation of an Integrated Strategic Plan (ISP) that reaffirms Stanford Medicine's Precision Health vision. A groundbreaking roadmap launched in 2018, the ISP aligns Stanford Medicine's three entities, informs how each will develop strategies, and has activated dozens of high-impact initiatives across Stanford Medicine. In 2023, Dr. Minor and the CEOs of Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health launched the ISP Refresh, an initiative focused on Stanford Medicine's evolution as it leads a biomedical landscape that has rapidly evolved due to COVID-19 and other developments.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Minor quickly implemented protocols to ensure the safety of patients and of the Stanford Medicine community. He emphasized open communication, transparency, and accountability as he and the leadership team responded to the unprecedented challenges that affected every facet of the enterprise's activities. Under his leadership, Stanford Medicine became one of the first academic medical centers to develop a COVID-19 test, launched hundreds of clinical research projects, and distributed 480,000 vaccine doses.
In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision for transforming the future of life sciences at Stanford University, in the Bay Area, and beyond. This multi-decade journey will leverage the region's unique strengths in information sciences, technology, and biology and biomedicine to establish a biomedical innovation hub that, through collaboration, enhances fundamental understanding of biology and translates promising discoveries into transformative leaps that promote human and planetary well-being.
Dr. Minor has long provided significant support for basic science research and for clinical and translational research at Stanford. Through bold initiatives in medical education and increased support for MD and PhD students, Dr. Minor is committed to inspiring and training future leaders. He also has increased student financial aid and expanded faculty leadership opportunities.
Among other accomplishments, Dr. Minor has led the development and implementation of an innovative model for cancer research and patient care delivery at Stanford Medicine and has launched an initiative in biomedical data science to harness the power of big data and create a learning health care system.
Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of The Johns Hopkins University. As provost, Dr. Minor launched many university-wide initiatives such as the Gateway Sciences Initiative to support pedagogical innovation, and the Doctor of Philosophy Board to promote excellence in PhD education. He worked with others around the university and health system to coordinate the Individualized Health Initiative, which aimed to use genetic information to transform health care.
Prior to his appointment as provost in 2009, Dr. Minor was 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. During his six-year tenure, he expanded annual research funding by more than half and increased clinical activity by more than 30 percent, while strengthening teaching efforts and student training.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. Through neurophysiological investigations of eye movements and neuronal pathways, his work has identified adaptive mechanisms responsible for compensation to vestibular injury in a model system for studies of motor learning (the vestibulo-ocular reflex). The synergies between this basic research and clinical studies have led to improved methods for the diagnosis and treatment of balance disorders. In recognition of his work in refining a treatment for Ménière's disease, Dr. Minor received the Prosper Ménière Society's gold medal in 2010.
In the medical community, Dr. Minor is perhaps best known for his discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. In 1998, Dr. Minor and colleagues published a description of the clinical manifestations of the syndrome and related its cause to an opening (dehiscence) in the bone covering the superior canal. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
Dr. Minor received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Brown University. He trained at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center and completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago and a clinical fellowship at The Otology Group and The EAR Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.
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- Administrative Co - Director, School of Medicine - IDP 's - MSTP
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus / Research
Professor Carter studies the influence of mechanical loading upon the growth, development, regeneration, and aging of skeletal tissues. Basic information from such studies is used to understand skeletal diseases and treatments. He has served as President of the Orthopaedic Research Society and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
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- Professor of Radiology ( Cardiovascular Imaging )
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- Professor
- Research Interests
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Co - Advisor ( AC )
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor ( AC )
Francisco Galdos graduated in 2015 from Harvard University with a degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology. His undergraduate honors thesis focused on identifying extracellular matrix components responsible for maintaining pancreatic beta cell function and maturity. Currently, he is an MD/Ph.D. student in the Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He is passionate about pursuing a career researching and treating children with congenital heart disease, which guided his decision to join Sean Wu's lab. In the Wu lab, Francisco works on developing human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) models of congenital heart disease to understand the genetics behind cardiac defects. He hopes to combine the fields of stem cell biology and tissue engineering to provide novel ways to understand cardiac development in both normal and disease settings.
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- Stanford Medicine Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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- Molecular and Genetic Medicine and Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.
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- Professor of Medicine ( Oncology ) and of Biochemistry / Research
Guang Li got his Ph.D. degree in 2013 from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His Ph.D. thesis focus on the developmental and transcriptional roles of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factor Imitation Switch (ISWI) in Arabidopsis. For being interested in the molecular regulation of cardiac development, he joined Sean Wu's lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2012. Now he is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the differentiation of bi-potential cardiac progenitor cells.
Guang Li got his Ph.D. degree in 2013 from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His Ph.D. thesis focus on the developmental and transcriptional roles of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factor Imitation Switch (ISWI) in Arabidopsis. For being interested in the molecular regulation of cardiac development, he joined Sean Wu's lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2012. Now he is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the differentiation of bi-potential cardiac progenitor cells.
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- Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ( 2015 )
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- Professor of Radiology ( General Radiology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Hematology / Oncology )
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- Undergraduate Research Award, the Johns Hopkins University ( 1998 )
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.
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular ) and of Radiology ( Veterans Affairs )
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- Associate Professor ( Research ) of Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Karakikes Lab aims to uncover fundamental new insights into the molecular mechanisms and functional consequences of pathogenic mutations associated with familial cardiovascular 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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- Senior Research Scientist - Basic Life, Rad / Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
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- Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry / Research
Jan Willem Buikema joined the Dr. Wu lab early 2017. In the past he completed his medical school in 2010 at University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Next he went for a research fellowship to Dr. Domian's research group at Massachuchetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. In 2014 he obtained his PhD degree from Utrecht University after writing a thesis on 'Molecular control of ventricular growth'. Most of his research work focused on Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in the heart. Currently Jan is trained in the University Medical Center Utrecht to become a cardiologist. In the Wu lab, Jan is working on molecular targets in inherited human cardiomyopathies.
Jennifer Li graduated from Whitney Young High School in Chicago, Illinois, in 2013. Currently an undergraduate at Stanford University, she plans to pursue a degree in Biomechanical Engineering or the Biological Sciences. After completing her undergraduate studies, she hopes to attend medical school and become a physician. She is very eager and excited to become involved in the research conducted by the Sean Wu Lab. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, running, and exploring the Bay Area.
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- Assistant Professor of Genetics / Research
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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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- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor ( AC )
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- Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( AC )
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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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- Professor of Radiology ( Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford ) Research
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- Professor of Medicine ( Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism )
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- Student, Expected Graduation Spring 2024 Ph.D. Student in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Admitted Autumn 2021 MSTP Student
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- Student in Cancer Biology, Admitted Autumn 2018
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
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- Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology ( Stem Cell )
Marc Engels grew up and graduated from high school in Curaçao, a Caribbean island forming part of the Dutch Antilles. He attained his propaedeutic exam in Life Science & Technology at Leiden University and Technical University Delft in the Netherlands, before entering Medical School at Leiden University. He combined his studies with a pre-Master program in Biomedical Sciences. After graduating from Medical School in 2009 he joined the Wu lab to work on cardiac stem cell research under the direct mentorship of Sean Wu. Marc is hoping to start with a PhD-training later this year.
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
Markus Krane graduated from the Ludwig Maximillians University School of Medicine in Munich, Germany in 2004. He performed his medical thesis in cardiopulmonary bypass in a pig model in the Department of Experimental Surgery (Prof. Dr. Robert Bauernschmitt) of the German Heart Center Munich. After graduating from medical school he has started his cardiac surgery fellowship training at the German Heart Center Munich in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Lange) in 2005. Being interested in embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell biology in the context of cardiac differentiation/development he has entered the Wu Lab of the cardiovascular research center at the MGH as a research fellow in 2009.
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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- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
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- Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( AC )
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- Professor of Radiology ( Radiological Sciences Lab ) Research
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- Professor of Genetics, Emerita / Research
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- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Genetics
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- Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery ( Cardiothoracic Surgery Research ) and, by Courtesy, of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Huang's laboratory aims to understand the chemical and mechanical interactions between extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and pluripotent stem cells that regulate vascular and myogenic differentiation. The fundamental insights of cell-matrix interactions are applied towards stem cell-based therapies with respect to improving cell survival and regenerative capacity, as well as engineered vascularized tissues for therapeutic transplantation.
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- Instructor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Nick Flores is an undergraduate student at Stanford University majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry. Nick, a Gates Millennium Scholar, is of Mexican heritage and is fluent in Spanish as well as English. He hopes to attend medical school in 2016 after graduation in pursuit of becoming a physician. Aside from research, he is interested in helping underprivileged areas and volunteers at East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring as well as Stanford Pacific Free Clinic in San Jose.
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- Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus / Research
Dr. Brown, currently an emeritus professor, is 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. He is also founder and president of the Impossible Foundation.
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine )
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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
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- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor ( AC )
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- Res Scientist - Basic Life, Pediatrics - Cardiology / Research
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.
Ryoko Hamaguchi is an undergraduate student at Stanford University and is mentored by Sean Wu. Born in Japan and raised in Beaverton, Oregon, she is fluent in both Japanese and English. She is currently pursuing a B.S. degree in the Biological Sciences. She hopes to enter a career in medicine, and dreams of becoming a physician skilled in clinical practice as well as in research. Beyond academics, her passions include visual art and volunteering at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center emergency department.
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- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Radiology
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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- Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
The Bowling lab focuses on understanding lineage formation and tissue growth in mammalian development during normal and perturbed embryogenesis. We use a combination of next-generation tools and classical embryological approaches to uncover mechanisms of plasticity and resilience during mammalian embryo development, with the aim of using this knowledge to extend our understanding of regeneration and developmental diseases.
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- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics
Sean Wu graduated as a valedictorian from Helix High School in La Mesa, CA, in 1988 and attended Stanford University where he completed two majors in biological sciences and mechanical engineering with honors and distinction. He subsequently joined the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program for a combined MD-PhD training from 1992 to 1999 at Duke University School of Medicine and received his PhD degree in the Department of Pathology working with Dr. Salvatore Pizzo on inflammatory mediators in vascular injury. Upon completion of his MD training, he served as an intern and resident in internal medicine at Duke University Hospital before joining the clinical and research fellowship in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School (HMS). For his post-doctoral research fellowship training, Dr. Wu worked under the direct mentorship of Stuart Orkin at Boston Children's Hospital and isolated and characterized a bi-potent cardiac progenitor cell from embryonic stem cells and the developing mouse embryo (Wu et al, Cell 2006). In July, 2006, Dr. Wu became a principal investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center, a staff cardiologist at MGH, and an Instructor of Medicine at HMS. He was also the Director of the Mouse Transgenic Microinjection Core. He was promoted to Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS in 2009. In July, 2012, Dr. Wu joined the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine/Department of Medicine, and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
Sharon Paige grew up in Rochester, NY before moving out to Seattle for her MD-PhD training. For her graduate thesis, Sharon studied Wnt signaling and chromatin signatures during cardiac differentiation from human embryonic stem cells. She moved to Stanford in 2013 for her Pediatrics Residency and continued as a Pediatric Cardiology Fellow through the Accelerated Research Pathway. Sharon's long-term interests include understanding the genetic contributions to congenital heart disease and developing regenerative medicine therapies for patients of all ages with congenital heart disease. When not in the lab or the hospital, Sharon can often be found in a nearby park with her husband, Arlen, and dog, Betty Rubble.
Sneha Venkatraman hails from Mumbai, India. She holds a Master's degree in Biochemistry from University of Mumbai, India. She then pursued her Masters in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI). She got accepted into the "Emphasis in Stem Cell Technology and Laboratory Management" of the Masters in Biotechnology Program. In addition, she was one of the recipients of the prestigious "California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Bridges to Stem Cell Research Trainee Award" to pursue a one year internship in Stem cell research at the Sean Wu Lab at Stanford University. The amazing tutelage, guidance and experience at both institutes landed her a job as a lab manager and research assistant in the same lab where she interned. Her future plans are to pursue a Ph.D. through work in the Biotechnology Industry and contribute to society. In her free time, she volunteers in various philanthropic events. Sneha has a passion for music and is an amateur singer who loves to sing Western and Indian classical music. Her talents were recognized when she was selected to sing the United States National Anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the CSUCI Commencement ceremony and the Port Hueneme Naval Base.
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- Professor of Developmental Biology, Emeritus / Research
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- Professor of Radiology ( Neuroimaging and Neurointervention )
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .
Thomas Thach is currently a student at Oak Grove High School and intends to matriculate into Stanford University's incoming Class of 2021. Inspired by the endless potential for science to help humanity, he plans to major in biology and continue researching into cardiology. Some of his favorite pastimes include playing badminton, river rafting, sampling new foods, and marvelling at recent discoveries in medicine.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Co - Advisor ( AC )
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- Associate Director for Neuroscience Community Labs, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
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- Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
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- Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine )
Veda Sunkara is currently a junior at Mountain View High School in Mountain View, CA. After gaining some lab experience in an ameba lab over the past summer, she wants to expand her horizons and learn from every possible opportunity that is presented to her. She is excited by the possibilities that the lab's research holds, and cannot wait to be a part of such an incredible venture. She plans to major in journalism and biology when she goes to college, and hopes to one day build establish a series of clinics of her own in Syria to assist war victims. In addition to research, Veda loves to spend time with her family, run, and play the classical guitar.
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- Basic Life Research Scientist, Stem Cell Bio Regenerative Med Institute
Wen-Pin Chen received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University. After completing my thesis work in Professor Ming-Jai Su's Lab in the Institute of Pharmacology about the mechanisms of the mechanical and electrophysiological modulation of a1-adrenergic activation in normal and cardiomyopathic hearts in 2002. And then, he joined in Drug Research Center at NTU as a postdoctoral fellow to have charge in cardiovascular pharmacology projects including anti-arrhythmic and cardioprotective agents against ischemia-reperfusion injury, drugs anti-diabetic cardiovascular complications and drugs anti-septic cardiomyopathy since 2002. His major research work included using patch clamp technique to characterize the change of cardiac electrophysiology under pathophysiological conditions and the modulation by drugs, measuring Ca2+ transients of single cardiac cells, and using catheter to measure left ventricular pressure and volume to approach hemodynamic function in normal and disease animal models. Being interested in pharmacological screen for drugs that regulate postnatal cardiac progenitor cells, he enters cardiovascular research center of MGH as a research fellow.
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- Associate Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine ) Research
William Goodyer is an MD/PhD who graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada with a BS with Honors in Biology prior to completing his medical and graduate studies at Stanford University in the Medical Scientist Training Program. His undergraduate research focused on the molecular regulators involved in C. elegans meiosis in the lab of Dr. Monique Zetka, while his PhD (Dr. Seung Kim lab) centered on the molecular mechanisms governing pancreatic beta-cell maturation and proliferation in vertebrates. He next pursued accelerated research tracks for both Pediatric Residency (Boston Children's Hospital, 2013-2015) and Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 2015-2017), where he developed a passion for Electrophysiology. As such, he next performed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dr. Sean Wu lab at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (2017-2019), focusing on the discovery of novel regulators underlying the development of the cardiac conduction system (CCS). To overcome the inherent hurdles of studying the CCS (small cell numbers, cell type heterogeneity, etc), he developed a comprehensive transcriptional profile of the entire CCS at single-cell resolution, providing a gene atlas for facilitating future efforts in conduction cell identification, isolation, and characterization in the context of development and disease. He has recently completed his Pediatric Electrophysiology Fellowship (2019-2020) and has stayed on at LPCH as an Instructor, pursuing both clinical Pediatric Electrophysiology and basic science research focused on CCS development and disease in order to stimulate future translational opportunities aimed at the prevention and treatment of heart rhythm disorders.
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- Professor of Genetics / Research
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.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
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- Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology / Research
Yuan Zhang graduated from Beijing No.8 High School in China in 2013. As a current Stanford undergraduate student, she plans to major in Biology and go to medical school after college. Fascinated by the field of medicine, she hopes to pursue a career as a biomedical researcher or physician. She enjoys working in the lab and volunteering at Arbor Free Clinic as a mandarin interpreter and patient navigator. In her free time, she loves swimming and playing pipa, as a performer of Stanford Chinese Music Ensemble.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Co - Advisor ( AC )