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Please Welcome new MSTP Directors Katrin Chua and Catherine Blish

March 2014

 

 

Dean Minor and MSTP Directors PJ Utz and Matthew Porteus are pleased to announce that Katrin Chua, MD, PhD has been selected as an MSTP Associate Director. Katrin is a superb physician scientist in the Division of Endocrinology where her lab is focused on epigenetics and related pathways.  In addition to Dr. Chua, Dean Minor and the MSTP Directors have identified Catherine Blish, MD, PhD as an MSTP Assistant Director. Dr. Blish, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, studies natural killer and other immune cells and their role in infectious diseases. 

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April 2014

Seung Kim '92, Professor of Developmental Biology, former MSTP Director, is awarded The Ho-Am Foundation Prize in Medicine

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May 2014

Roxana Daneshjou (entering '09) and Jonathan Tsai (entering '11) are awarded The Paul and Daisy Fellowship for New Americans

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March 2014

Sheri Fink '99 Wins Book Award

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Richard Lifton '86 is awarded The Breakthrough Prize for excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life. 12/13/13

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Aaron Ring (entering '08) and Kipp Weiskopf (entering '08) are named first place winners in the Collegiate Inventors Competition. See them on You Tube.

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The MSTP Community mourns the loss of Len Herzenberg

As many of you know, Len Herzenberg passed away in October. Len was a luminary figure in immunology and genetics. He had been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1959, the year the Stanford Medical School moved from San Francisco to the campus. Len invented the Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS), which transformed fields such as immunology, transplantation, and more recently developmental biology. He also developed and patented humanized monoclonal antibody technology, which is now used by many drug companies to invent and manufacture the biologic drugs that have transformed the clinical practice of rheumatology, oncology, allergy, cardiology, transplantation, and other areas.

The Stanford MSTP began with an application by Dr. Leonard Herzenberg to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1967, in which the proposed program would be supervised by a 9-member committee consisting of basic science and clinical department faculty. The application was funded for 5 years beginning July 1, 1968, with approval for 8 trainees per year.

For more information regarding Len Herzenberg, his wife Lenore Herzenberg, and their careers:

Len Herzenberg

Herzenberg Laboratory

 

 

 

Congratulations!

Amrapali Maitra (entering '10) is awarded The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

 

In the News

May 2013

Diane Tseng (class of 2013) Anti-CD47 antibody may offer new route to successful cancer vaccination

Joanna Mattis (entering '07) presents "Viral and Molecular Tools to Constrain Gene Delivery in the Brain", Bio-X Fellow Symposium 2013, Wednesday, June 26, 2:40 pm, Clark Auditorium

In the News:

January 2013

Matthew Porteus, Assistant Director MSTP
Immune cells engineered to resist HIV infection

Andrew Lee, (entering '07)
Genetic mutiation key to cardiac death (SF Gate) and Researches use stem cells to pinpoint cause of common type of sudden cardiac death

In the News:

November 2012

Paul Nuyujukian, (entering '06)
Stanford researchers advance the performance of thought-controlled computer cursors

Seung Kim, Director MSTP
Phillips Exeter Academy students in Kim Lab

 

Congratulations on your Thesis Defense:

Li Li, “Postsynaptic vesicular cycling and its role in local redistribution of surface receptors”
October 26, 2012

Paul Nuyujukian, “Towards clinically relevant neural prostheses”
October 25, 2012

Wei Gu, “Comprehensive non-invasive prenatal diagnostics for genetic diseases”
October 16, 2012

Yul Yang, "RNA-Mediated Programming of Active Chromatin Domains" July 16, 2012

David Kastner, "Contrast sensitization: Function and circuit mechanisms of a novel retinal computation" December 7, 2011

Michael Mancuso, "Novel regulators of angiogenesis and cerebrovascular integrity" November 21, 2011

William Goodyer,"Coordinated regulation of postnatal beta-cell development in mammals by Cn/NFAT" September 26, 2011

In the News:

September 2012

Former MSTP student Ronald Vale shares the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

August 2012

P.J. Utz, Associate Director MSTP
Stanford/Intel study details power of new chip to diagnose disease, analyze protein interactions

Congratulations!

Diane Tseng (entering '06) is awarded the STaRT grant from the Cancer Research Institute.

In the News:

Wei Gu (entering '05)
New method enables sequencing of fetal genomes using only maternal blood sample

Seung Kim, Director MSTP
New Bio Course to Bring Stanford to Exeter Academy

Owen Witte, MSTP Alumnus, HHMI Investigator and UCLA Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
presents "Prostate stem cells and cancer progression"
Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series
Thursday, November 1, 12noon
Munzer Auditorium

Mitch Lazar, MD, PhD, MSTP alumnus, presents
“Epigenomic and Circadian Regulation of Metabolism”

Endocrinology Grand Rounds
Annual Kroc Lecture
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5pm- 6pm
Clark Center room S360 (behind Peet’s)

In the News:

Laura Prolo (class of '12)
Mix and match: Medical students learn residency assignments

Congratulations!

Aashish Manglik (entering '08) is awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for his project The Role of Structure and Dynamics in Beta2-Adrenoreceptor Function.

Aaron Ring (entering '08) is awarded a National Research Service Award for his project Molecular Engineering of IL-2 for the Treatment and Prevention of Type I Diabetes.

Julien Sage, Associate Director of MSTP Admissions, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics, effective 6/01/11.

Ron Alfa (entering '07) and Patricia Ortiz-Tello (entering '08) are awarded Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships.

Kyle Eagen (entering '08) is awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.

In the News:

Andreas Rauschecker (entering '05)
"Stanford researchers show that there's more than one way to read - with implications for reading disorders"

Andrew Lee (entering '07)
"Stanford's StartX incubator looks to hatch more startups down on the Farm"

MSTP Alumni Lunch
Monday, October 31, 12noon
Guest Speaker: Jeremy Heit '08

Congratulations on your Thesis Defense:

Andreas Rauschecker, "Cortical Circuits for Building Neural Visual Word Representations" July 8, 2011

Alex Red Eagle, "The role of the IL-4/STAT6 signaling pathway in the development of obesity induced insulin resistance" June 7, 2011

Greg Allen, "A Quantitative Description of Actin-Based Eukaryotic Cell Motility" May 9, 2011

Amanda Casto, "The Demography and Evoloution of X-Linked and GWAS SNPs" April 6, 2011

Wendy Pang, "Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Aging and Myelodysplastic Syndrome" February 7, 2011

Rich Gaster, "GMR Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive in-vitro Diagnostics and Biomolecular Kinetics" December 6, 2010

Keyan Salari, "Ontogeny meets oncology: CDX2 as a lineage-survival oncogene in colorectal cancer" September 17, 2010

Matthew Goldstein, "CpG Vaccine Strategies Induce Tumor-Reactive T Cells for Adoptive Therapy of Lymphoma" September 8, 2010

Amit Kaushal, "Development and Application of Quantitative Methods for Clinical High-Throughput Proteomics" September 3, 2010

Lou Saddic, "How to Take RB to the Prom: Combine with C-MYC to Generate Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Methylate with SMYD2" August 30, 2010

Paul Hoover, "Activation of the Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ channel by STIM1" August 13, 2010

Laura Prolo, "Impaired Myelination in a Mouse Model of the Free Sialic Acid
Storage Disorders" August 10, 2010

Jennifer Parker, "Survival and Signaling Changes in Antigen Presenting Cell Subsets After Radiation" August 4, 2010

July 2010:
Thanks to a generous contribution from alumnus Felix Baker, MSTP students Monique Barakat, Will Goodyer, Tyler Hillman and Wendy Pang attended the National MD/PhD Student Conference in Colorado.

March 2010:
AbdulRasheed Alabi (entering '07) is awarded The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans. Congratulations!

June 2009:

Richard Gaster (entering '06) along with teammate Drew Hall takes First Prize in the 2009 BMEidea competition sponsored by the NCIIA (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) and 2009 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Presidents' Change the World Competition. Congratulations Rich!!