News
- October 20, 2020
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ChEM-H Co-Director Carolyn Bertozzi is a Falling Walls Finalist
- Professor Bertozzi is breaking the wall by transforming human health interdisciplinarily.
- Institute Scholars, Media Coverage
- October 12, 2020
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Shipped kits, simulations: Instructors try adapting labs, but still run up against virtual learning limitations
- Science and engineering instructors are shipping lab kits and using virtual simulations in an effort to recreate the hands-on experience for students learning remotely.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- October 08, 2020
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High-risk, high-reward grants awarded to four Stanford researchers
- Annelise Barron, Peter Kim, Siddhartha Jaiswal and Keren Haroush will receive grants totaling $10 million to fund their investigations.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- October 05, 2020
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Jeffrey Glenn granted $14.3 million to develop broad spectrum drugs
- Stanford researcher is pursuing antiviral drugs with broad efficacy against enteroviruses, which cause common colds and polio, and coronaviruses including the one that causes COVID
- Knowledge Centers, Stanford News Sources
- July 29, 2020
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Stanford chemists craft molecular scalpels to clear unwanted proteins from cell surfaces
- Stanford chemists have developed a new tool that shuttles unwanted cell surface proteins to their deaths.
- Institute Scholars
- July 21, 2020
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Stanford researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector
- This device offers a significantly faster and easier method for detecting ammonia levels in blood, which can reach dangerous levels in people with certain diseases.
- ChEM-H, Stanford News Sources
- July 02, 2020
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More blood proteins cross into the brain than some thought, according to Stanford researchers
- New Stanford research recasts the brain vasculature, commonly known as the “blood-brain barrier,” as an active interface that allows many proteins from the blood into brain cells.
- Trainees
- June 25, 2020
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National Institute on Aging awards $15 million to Stanford’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
- Stanford-based center’s affiliated faculty and staff, aided by more than 400 volunteers, conduct research on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and related disorders.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- June 24, 2020
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Anthony Flores on jumping into research and hoping for a place to land
- ChEM-H Undergrad Scholar and graduating senior Anthony Flores talks to us about jumping into research, directed evolution, and important mentors from his Stanford career.
- Trainees
- June 04, 2020
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Democratizing access to resources for Stanford researchers
- Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research Kathryn Moler wants all research resources to be as readily available to enable faculty and students to pursue innovative research.
- ChEM-H, Stanford News Sources
- May 26, 2020
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ChEM-H researchers uncover role of membrane sugars in flu infection
- ChEM-H graduate students reveal how the forest of sugars on a cell’s surface could help in the defense against flu infection.
- Trainees, Institute Scholars
- May 22, 2020
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Stanford pivots its Long-Range Vision to contribute to global recovery
- At the Academic Council meeting, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne discussed how Stanford is pivoting its Long-Range Vision in light of COVID-19.
- IMA, Stanford News Sources
- May 21, 2020
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The Innovative Medicines Accelerator turns its focus on COVID-19
- Stanford’s new IMA arose before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, but now its programs are focused entirely on helping faculty generate and test new medicines to slow the spread.
- IMA, Stanford News Sources
- May 14, 2020
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Kolade Adebowale awarded NIH predoctoral fellowship for cancer immunology research
- ChEM-H student Kolade Adebowale awarded National Institutes of Health fellowship for research at the intersection of materials science and cancer therapy.
- Trainees
- April 06, 2020
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Stanford researchers discuss the benefits – and perils – of science without peer review
- Science moving forward without traditional forms of peer review could shorten the path to solutions – but it also increases the chances that low-quality science gets overhyped.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- April 01, 2020
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Stanford seeking to expand space for COVID-19 research
- Stanford is looking to expand the only facility on campus where researchers can work with the virus that causes COVID-19.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- March 24, 2020
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Old human cells rejuvenated with stem cell technology
- Old human cells can become more youthful by coaxing them to briefly express proteins used to make induced pluripotent cells.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- March 06, 2020
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Could gene editing enable us to reverse some of the ravages of aging?
- As we get better at fine-tuning DNA, we may be able to move beyond the treatment of disease to develop unprecedented techniques of rejuvenation.
- Institute Scholars, Stanford News Sources
- February 24, 2020
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ChEM-H researchers work toward new understanding of cancer camouflage
- A group led by ChEM-H Institute Scholar Lingyin Li and Chemistry/Biology Interface graduate student Jacqueline Carozza found a molecule that could help undermine cancer's defenses.
- Institute Scholars, Knowledge Centers, Trainees
