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Bridging chemistry, engineering, biology & medicine to advance human health, transform research & train the next generation of scientific leaders at Stanford University.

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Meet Susan Carter, Administrative Associate at Sarafan ChEM-H. In our latest Employee Spotlight, Susan shares how her role allows her to connect with others and contribute meaningfully to the institute’s vision and mission, her career journey, and more: chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...
“ What I enjoy most is connecting with other people and getting to know them. We are all working toward the same goal of advancing human health. ” Susan Carter Administrative Associate
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Nicole Martinez for receiving the 2025 Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award!
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Nicole Martinez for receiving the 2025 Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award, given to early career female scientists for their innovative basic or translational biomedical research.
October 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Congratulations to Institute Scholar Peter Kim for receiving $18 million grant from CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) to develop vaccines targeting the deadly Ebola, Marburg, and other related viruses, including those that have not yet emerged: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Peter Kim for being receiving $18 million grant from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to develop broadly effective antiviral vaccine.
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo...

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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes for being named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, an honor that recognizes excellence in scientific research and mentorship.
October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Click the link above to learn more & apply!
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Congratulations to Alex Choi (Stanley Qi Lab) for receiving the Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award! postdocs.stanford.edu/current-post...
Congratulations to Alex Choi (Stanley Qi Lab) for receiving the Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award. Alex is being recognized for CRISPRkit – a $2 CRISPR lesson that makes biotechnology more affordable, equitable, and accessible.
September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Hawa Racine Thiam for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. Hawa is being recognized for being a trailblazer of subcellular biophysics and unveiling new paradigms of biophysical immunology through her dynamic measurements of physical forces on organelles in real time.
September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Don't miss this live webinar with Q&A for the celiac community on September 29, 2025 9:00 am PST! Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Introducing HB-2121: A Study Focused on Improving Celiac Disease Diagnosis: Dr. Nasim Khavari & Dr. Nielsen Fernandez-Becker, Stanford Medicine
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September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Congratulations to Institute Scholar Monther Abu-Remaileh @abu-remaileh.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Monther Abu-Remaileh for winning the 2026 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research. The award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids by a young investigator.
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Congratulations to Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social for being named a 2025 Schmidt Polymath!
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce for being named a 2025 Schmidt Polymath. Polly will work toward enabling crowd-sourced, megascale measurements of protein function, which will yield critical data required to drive revolutionary advances in functional protein design.
September 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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That concludes this year’s Next-Gen Symposium.Thank you to organizers Aaron Streets, @pollyfordyce.bsky.social, Jason Sello, Mercedes Paredes, @hawa-racine.bsky.social, Nicolas Altemose, @frutag33.bsky.social, Nicole Martinez, Elizabeth Ponder, @queerentist.bsky.social, Bill Burkholder & Ben Warner!
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September 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 6: Organisms to Networks and Engineering Health

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Colwyn Headley, PhD, is an Instructor at Stanford University (cheadley@Stanford.edu); Thomas Pomberger, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University (thomas.pomberger@duke.edu); Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza, MD, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University (brenda.cabrera-mendoza@yale.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 5: Sensors and Actuators, From Understanding to Design

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Eman Akam-Baxter, PhD, is an Instructor at Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital (eakam@mgh.harvard.edu); Maia Kinnebrew, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University (mkinnebr@stanford.edu); Fernando Medina Ferrer, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley (medinaferrer@berkeley.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 4: Physical Forces and Mechanobiology

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Joshua Francois, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (joshua_francois@hms.harvard.edu); Rikki Garner, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (rikkimgarner@gmail.com); Piere Rodriguez Aliaga, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (piererod@stanford.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 3: Immunology and Cell-Cell Interactions

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (sariam@stanford.edu); Juan Inclan Rico, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (jmirico.k16@gmail.com); Christian Dzuvor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (christian_dzuvor@hsph.harvard.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 2: Genomics and Nucleic Acid Therapies

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Noa Katz, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (katznoa@stanford.edu); Jingxun Chen, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (jchen415@stanford.edu); Brea Manuel, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (bmanu15@umbc.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 1: Deciphering How Sequence Encodes Transcription

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Joan Pulupa, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University (jp4152@columbia.edu); Sebastian Castillo-Hair, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Washington (castillohair@gmail.com); Isaac López-Moyado, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (ilopezmo@lji.org)
September 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We’re kicking off the 2025 Next-Gen Symposium, a joint UCSF-Stanford-UC-Berkeley event highlighting the talent of 18 early-career scientists from across the country in the biological/biomedical sciences. Follow a recap of the day’s talks here! www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
2025 Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium, Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 1:45 PM Pacific
September 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Check out the latest edition of The ChEM-H Quarterly: mailchi.mp/stanford/the...
Read about seed grants supporting cancer research at the Nucleus, meet the new CBI graduate students, browse the pioneering work of our Institute Scholars in human health, and more!
September 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Click the link above to learn more & apply!
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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New Employee Spotlight features Olivia Pattelli, a Structural Biology Protein Scientist in the Macromolecular Structure Group at the Nucleus. She shares how the most rewarding part of her job is working with & training researchers and students from campus, and more chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...
“ What I love most is the collaboration. I get to work on so many different projects and meet lots of people. It's never the same day twice.” Olivia Pattelli Structural Biology Protein Scientist
August 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Congratulations to @isaacapaddy.bsky.social, a PhD student advised by Institute Scholar @lmkdassama.bsky.social, for being named a 2025 @hhmi.org‬ Gilliam Fellow!
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August 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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'The vaccine we all wear'
In @science.org , Postdoc @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social writes about her work in Institute Scholar @mfgrp.bsky.social lab exploring the possibility of non-invasive topical vaccines that could be applied directly to the skin: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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August 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Jason Pellman is a Scientific Program Manager at the Stanford Innovative Medicines Accelerator (IMA). In our latest Employee Spotlight, he talks about his current role, a project he is especially proud of, advice we could all benefit from,his life beyond work &more chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...
“ We’re helping researchers navigate a difficult space in clinical research. There’s a real sense of satisfaction in knowing we’re enabling progress.” Jason Pellman Scientific Program Manager
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The Chemoproteomics Group at the Nucleus, led by @dina-sch.bsky.social , uses mass spec-based techniques to study proteins & their molecular interactions. The group supports @stanford.edu researchers throughout a project, from design consultation to data analysis. chemh.stanford.edu/research/nuc...
July 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM