Faculty

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Russ Altman

Russ Altman, M.D., Ph.D.
Department Chair,
Professor,
Biomedical Computation

Applications of computational technologies to problems in molecular biology of relevance to medicine

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  Annelise Barron

Annelise Barron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, polymer and colloidal science and biotechnology.

Novel polymeric materials and strategies for capillary and
microchip electrophoresis; polymer-biomolecule conjugates;
sequence-controlled, biomimetic oligomers with folded structure for biomedical and biomaterial
applications

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Kwabena Boahen

Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Neural Systems in Silicon

Large-scale models of biological sensory, perceptual and motor systems

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  Zev Bryant

Zev Bryant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biophysics

Structure and function of molecular motors; single molecule tracking and manipulation; biopolymer mechanics


Dennis Carter

Dennis Carter, Ph.D. Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Professor, Skeletal Mechanobiology

Influence of mechanical loading on the development, regeneration, and aging of skeletal tissues

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  Jennifer Cochran

Jennifer Cochran, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, Tissue Engineering

Chemical synthesis, directed evolution, and molecular design techniques to develop proteins and materials with specific biological functions

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Markus Covert

Markus Covert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Systems Biology

Model-driven discovery, regulatory and signaling networks, cell-cell interactions

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  Karl Deisseroth

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neural Engineering, Neuroscience

Developing molecular and cellular tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits

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Scott Delp

Scott Delp, Ph.D.
Professor, Neuromuscular Biomechanics
Chair, 2002-2006

Experimental and computational approaches to study muscle, movement, and movement disorders

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Drew Endy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (starting September '08), Synthetic Biology

Foundational and applied research in support of making biology easy to engineer

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KC Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (starting September 08), Bioengineering

Physical mechanisms of cell shape determination, detection, and maintenance in bacteria; membrane organization; cell division

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  Norbert Pelc

Norbert Pelc, Sc.D.
Professor, Biomedical Imaging

Physics and engineering aspects of, and the development of new
clinical applications of diagnostic imaging systems, with particular
emphasis on CT and MRI.

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Stephen Quake

Stephen Quake, Ph.D.
Department Co-Chair,
Professor, Molecular Biophysics

Large scale biological automation, microfluidics and systems biology

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  Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott, Ph.D. ,Professor, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Regenerative Medicine

Understanding genetic control of animal development and the relations of developmental biology to human disease

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James Swartz

Christina Smolke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (starting January 2009), Bioengineering

Biomolecular design, RNA engineering, synthetic biology, and cellular engineering

  James Swartz

James Swartz, D.Sc. Professor, Bioprocess Engineering, Cell and Molecular Engineering

Microbial metabolism, protein expression, and protein folding

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Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Bioengineering

Simulation-based medical planning, MRI, image-based geometric modeling, computational fluid and solid mechanics

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  Paul Yock

Paul Yock, M.D. Professor, Biomedical Devices, Cardiovascular Imaging
Co-Chair, 2002-2006

Device development and testing in interventional, cardiology; advanced coronary imaging techniques, coronary hemodynamics

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Courtesy Faculty

Kim Butts

Kim Butts Pauly , Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Research), Radiology -Diagnostic Radiology

MR-guided minimally invasive therapies and MRI pulse sequences

  Jeffrey Feinstein

Jeffrey Feinstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics - Cardiology

Computer simulation and modeling of cardiovascular physiology, development and testing of transcatheter therapies and the evaluation and treatment of pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary vascular disease.


Garry Gold

Garry Gold, M.D., Associate Professor, Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology

Application of new MR imaging technology to musculoskeletal problems.

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  Sam Gambhir

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D. , Professor, Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford

Development of novel strategies
to image molecular/cellular events in living subjects

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Chris Jacobs

Christopher Jacobs, Ph.D. , Associate Professor (Research), Mechanical Engineering

Cellular mechanics and molecular mechanisms of cellular mechano-transduction particularly in bone

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  Michael Longaker

Michael Longaker, M.D., Professor, Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery, Regenerative Medicine

Wound healing,
tissue engineering, mesenchymal stem cell biology, skeletal regeneration
and repair

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Consulting Faculty

Jack Linehan

John Linehan, Ph.D., Consulting Professor, Bioengineering, Executive Editor, bmesource.org

Biomedical device design for global health, biomedical engineering education

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Affiliated Faculty

Atul Butte

Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Medicine - Stanford Medical Informatics

Bioinformatics; developing automated processes to intersect measurements from multiple types of experiments to inference new findings.

  Rebecca Fahrig

Rebecca Fahrig, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology-Diagnostic Radiology

X-ray and CT imaging; hybrid imaging systems for guidance of minimally invasive procedures

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Stuart Goodman

Stuart Goodman, M.D., Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery - Orthopedics

Adult reconstructive surgery including total joint replacement, osteotomies and the fixation of fractures.

  Ellen Kuhl

Ellen Kuhl, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Biomechanics with a focus on growth and remodeling. Development of appropriate enhanced continuum models based on multiscale considerations carrying information from the cell to the tissue level.


Marc Levenston

Marc Levenston, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Function, degeneration and repair of orthopaedic soft tissues, with an emphasis on understanding the interactions between biophysical and biochemical cues in controlling cells from articular cartilage and fibrocartilage.

  Craig Levin

Craig Levin, Ph. D.
Associate Professor (Research)
Radiology - Nuclear Medicine

Development of novel instrumentation and software algorithms for in-vivo imaging of molecular signals in humans and small laboratory animals.

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Mark Musen

Mark Musen , M.D., Ph.D. , Professor Medicine - Stanford Medical Informatics

Development of reusable domain descriptions (ontologies); automated generation of knowledge-acquisition tools from domain ontologies; visual metaphors to facilitate knowledge entry by application specialists; decision-support systems for protocol-based care; representation of biomedical concepts and terminologies for development of intelligent systems

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  David Paik

David Paik, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Research)
Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology

Imaging informatics, information integration, spatiotemporal modeling, image analysis, quantitation for molecular imaging, imaging simulation, statistical methods for imaging evaluation, and visualization with application in cancer imaging.

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Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Understanding the causes and treatments of movement disorders in children, including dystonia, athetosis, chorea, ataxia, and myoclonus

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  Sylvia Plevritis

Sylvia Plevritis, Ph. D.
Associate Professor,
Radiology Associate Professor (Research)
Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology

Computational modeling of cancer biology and cancer outcomes.


Mark Schnitzer

Mark Schnitzer Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences (in Humanities and Sciences)

In vivo two-photon fluorescence imaging studies of cerebellar-dependent learning and memory;fiber optic fluorescence microendoscopy.

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  Krishna Shenoy

Krishna Shenoy, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Neurosciences Program

neuroscience (systems & cognitive neuroscience) and neuroengineering (electrical, bio, and biomedical engineering) research to address both basic and applied questions related to neural prosthetic systems.

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Dan Spielman

Dan Spielman, Ph. D.
Associate Professor,
Radiology

Magnetic resonance imaging and in vivo spectroscopy including optimized mapping of metabolite distributions in the brain, prostate, and breast

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