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Announcements
Recipients of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship Affiliated with ChEM-H announced
This year, ChEM-H named one new doctoral fellow and one honorary fellow.
Digging into the genetic recipe book
ChEM-H faculty fellow Polly Fordyce discusses her recent paper published in PNAS. Co-authors include ChEM-H postdoc mentor and undergraduate scholar pair, Daniel Le and Allison Keys, and CBI graduate student, Arjun Aditham.
Carolyn Bertozzi elected to Royal Society
Stanford ChEM-H co-director Carolyn Bertozzi has been elected as one of this year’s ten new Foreign Members to the Royal Society for her pioneering work in the field of bioorthogonal chemistry.
Looking for an off switch for celiac disease
Stanford ChEM-H co-director Chaitan Khosla's new research on celiac disease is highlighted in Science Daily.
A new kind of homing beacon targets cancerous cells and other diseases
Stanford ChEM-H faculty fellow Stanley Qi and his team used gene-editing techniques to create human immune cells that target and kill cancerous cells, such as leukemia. The approach could be adapted to an array of diseases ranging from solid tumors to neurological and autoimmune disorders.
Stanford and Takeda Pharmaceuticals to collaborate on medicines of the future
Stanford and Takeda Pharmaceuticals have formed the Alliance for Innovative Medicines, which will help transform Stanford research into next-generation treatments for disease. Stanford ChEM-H will manage the new collaborative program.
Faculty hires
Stanford ChEM-H is hiring new faculty whose research bridges chemistry, engineering and medicine to build a community of scientists who will drive the engineering of molecules, materials, and measurement tools that help understand humans and treat disease.
Jonathan Long
Jonathan Long joined Stanford ChEM-H as assistant professor of pathology
Michael Fischbach
Michael Fischbach joined Stanford ChEM-H as associate professor of bioengineering
Lingyin Li
Lingyin Li joined Stanford ChEM-H as assistant professor of biochemistry
Lei Stanley Qi
Lei Stanley Qi joined Stanford ChEM-H as assistant professor of bioengineering and of chemical and systems biology
Polly Fordyce
Polly Fordyce joined Stanford ChEM-H as assistant professor of genetics.
Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi joined Stanford ChEM-H as professor of chemistry and, by courtesy, of chemical and systems biology.
Peter Kim
Peter Kim joined Stanford ChEM-H as professor of biochemistry
