Students and postdocs

With funding and support from ChEM-H, a team of undergrads is bringing their idea to kickstart the body’s immune system closer to reality.

Laura Keller, a ChEM-H graduate student, uses tools from chemistry and biology to better understand and manipulate harmful gut bacteria.

Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) trainee Julieta Gomez-Frittelli on the gut’s nervous system and bringing her chemical engineering mind to a neuroscience lab.

The annual Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) training program retreat featured talks from current trainees, a keynote from Sangeeta Bhatia, and a workshop for future applicants.

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.

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.

ChEM-H graduate students reveal how the forest of sugars on a cell’s surface could help in the defense against flu infection.

ChEM-H student Kolade Adebowale awarded National Institutes of Health fellowship for research at the intersection of materials science and cancer therapy.

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.

Stanford ChEM-H has named 11 incoming students O’Leary-Thiry Graduate Fellows and two current students Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows to pursue research at the CBI.

Neuroscience graduate student John Peters explains how his role as the TA for the Undergraduate Scholars Program helps students become well-rounded scientists.

Postdoc Monica Olcina and Ryan Kim BS ’17 speak about their work in enhancing patient responses to radiation, their collaboration, and the importance of medical research.

Marie Hollenhorst talks about the allure of studying the blood, a life split between the clinic and the lab, and how the Stanford ChEM-H Physician-Scientist Fellowship has shaped h

During the fifth annual Stanford ChEM-H Postdoc Retreat, postdocs presented their human health-centered research and learned about transitioning to academic or industry careers.

Jennifer Cao and Cole Dovey met at the Stanford ChEM-H Postdoc Retreat and discovered that they shared an interest in cell death pathways.

Felix Alfonso, a graduate student in the Dept. of Chemistry, is a trainee in the Stanford ChEM-H Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Program, a NSF-GRFP fellow and a DARE fellow.

A team led by Carolyn Bertozzi developed a tool to help cut down and study mucins, stubborn structures on cell surfaces that help cancers evade detection.