Students and postdocs
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Writing the playbook for RNA-modifying enzymes and their roles in regulating translation of the genetic code
Institute scholar Nicole M. Martinez and team have developed a quantitative method to examine how special enzymes called pseudouridine synthases chemically alter RNA molecules within our cells
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New screening tool amplifies detection of protein changes
A high-throughput method enables researchers to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins.
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Q&A with CBI fellow Dayanne Carvalho
Dayanne Carvalho is a Chemistry PhD student at Stanford and part of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H
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Aging brains welcome reinforcements from outside immune cells
The discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists, including former CBI student and first author Julia Belk, overturns longstanding dogma – and could point the way toward new therapies for neurodegenerative disease.
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Celebrating ten years of CBI
The Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H serves as a supplemental interdisciplinary training program for graduate students seeking to do innovative research at the boundaries between fields. It is a tapestry of scientists-in-training from across chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine PhD programs at Stanford who, for the last decade, have been united by a molecular approach to solving global problems affecting human health. Happy 10th birthday, CBI!
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Meet Heloise Hoffmann, ’26
Heloise Hoffmann and her teammates won the Sarafan ChEM-H Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program pitch night with their proposal to develop a gene therapy for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a rare disease that causes progressive muscle degeneration and for which there is no cure.
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CBI student Hannah Barsouk was named a 2026 Hertz Fellow
The award supports doctoral students pursuing research and careers in science and technology.
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Four CBI students named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Yunbeen Bae, Amanda Cai, Zixuan Liu, and Cathy Zhu, were all awarded fellowships through the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
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Catching up with last year's winners of the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program
Young Stanford biotech entrepreneurs are using their $50,000 award to work towards a cure for a rare muscular dystrophy
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Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program celebrates 10th anniversary with annual pitch night
Stanford undergraduates win $50K through a program designed to teach undergraduates about biotech entrepreneurship
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A new atlas could help guide researchers studying neurological disease
Lab of Institute Scholar Monther Abu-Remaileh has built an atlas of proteins associated with lysosomes in different brain cell types that researchers hope will shed light on neurodegenerative disease.
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Uche Medoh featured in Forbes 30 under 30
Uche Medoh, PhD ’24, Abu-Remaileh lab, featured in Forbes 30 under 30.
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Two Stanford PhD students win the Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
Uche Medoh, PhD ’24, is honored with Grand Prize and King Hung, PhD ’24, is a Category Winner in an international essay contest about their graduate work in the life sciences.
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Q&A with CBI Fellow Carlos Rodriguez Santiago
Carlos Rodriguez Santiago is a Chemical Engineering PhD student at Stanford and part of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H
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Q&A with CBI Fellow Isabel Larus
Isabel Larus is a Chemical and Systems Biology PhD student at Stanford and part of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H
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Alex Choi (Stanley Qi Lab) won the Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award
The awards serve to highlight the individual contributions of postdocs whose service fosters belonging and uplifts their communities.
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Q&A with CBI Fellow Shoshana Williams
Shoshana Williams is a recent graduate of the Chemistry PhD program at Stanford and part of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) training program at Sarafan ChEM-H.
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2025 CBI cohort: Meet the incoming students
Learn more about the 11 grad students joining the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program this year.
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The art of chemistry, and the chemistry of art
Chemistry PhD student Shoshana Williams brings molecules and art into the classroom at a women’s university in Bangladesh
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Isaac Paddy, advised by Institute Scholar Laura Dassama, named 2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellow
The Gilliam Fellows Program supports graduate students and their faculty advisers who embody scientific leadership and are committed to building an equitable science culture.
