Stanford Genetics

Stanford Applied Longevity Translation Symposium Friday, January 17, 2025 - Register before Oct 30: https://lnkd.in/gKXERNHK Pioneering the Future of Aging: Science, Innovation, and Financing This symposium will look at these questions specifically as applied to longevity, uniquely from the investor, scientist, and the founder viewpoint. This event will provide a foundation to the field with talks from investors, scientists and company founders who will explain their respective perspectives, and will include talks from Stanford faculty involved with startups and spinouts. Stanford University School of Medicine Friday, January 17, 2025 · 8am - 4:30pm PST #longevity #aging #longlife #healthcare #entrepreneurship Ronjon Nag

✨Three Stanford Genetics Professors Win Prestigious Awards to Fund Vital Research✨ Huge congratulations to Ami Bhatt, Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, and Nicolas Altemose, DPhil, PhD! Learn more > https://lnkd.in/ghfiZPiA Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez PhD, an assistant professor of bioengineering and of genetics, has been named a 2024 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Scholars Program recognizes young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health and supports their independent research. Hernández-López will receive $300,000 over four years for his research into novel approaches for designing synthetic protein receptors for engineering cellular communication. Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, the professor of hematology and of genetics, has been awarded the 2024 William Dameshek Award from the American Society of Hematology. The award is for researchers no older than 50 years who have made contributions leading to a new fundamental understanding of hematology. The society is recognizing Bhatt for pioneering the development and application of genomic approaches to studying the microbiome — work that has provided the basis for improving outcomes for many human diseases. Nicolas Altemose, DPhil, PhD, an assistant professor in genetics, has been named a 2024 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Scholars program recognizes young investigators of promise in advancing human health and supports their research. Altemose will receive $300,000 over four years to investigate how specific proteins help maintain the function of centromeres, chromosomal structures that play a key role in cell division. Pew Research Center The Pew Charitable Trusts American Society of Hematology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University #research #healthcare #awards #stanford #medicine #hematology #Biomedical #genetics #chromosomes #cell #science #health #bioengineering

Lars Steinmetz PhD, professor of genetics, appointed new chair of the department of genetics Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gWCkHPUs Dr. Steinmetz, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Endowed Professor, steps into this new role as an innovative and influential genetics researcher, a successful entrepreneur, a highly productive leader of laboratories here and in Europe, and with a proven ability to facilitate productive collaborations across sites and disciplines. As Professor of Genetics, co-director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC), and associate group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, Dr. Steinmetz has helped pioneer technologies that have transformed our understanding of gene regulation and advanced the field of Precision Health. His labs focus on developing novel genomic approaches to investigate the genetic basis of complex phenotypes, the mechanisms of gene regulation, and the molecular systems underpinning disease. Working across the broad axis of fundamental biology to translational research, his labs drive progress in the fields of synthetic biology and quantitative genetics, leveraging the strengths of the SGTC. Alongside researchers from the lab, he has co-founded three companies to further develop technologies that he has helped create. Dr. Steinmetz earned his PhD at Stanford School of Medicine in 2002 and continued as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and the SGTC. At the age of 27, he started his own group at EMBL and, in parallel, continued to lead a focused team at the SGTC. In 2013, he was appointed Professor of Genetics at Stanford and co-director of the SGTC. As the director of the Life Science Alliance, a joint research initiative between Stanford and EMBL, he brings a unique global perspective to his new role. For over a decade, he has also served as the Director of Graduate Admissions for the Department of Genetics, helping develop a pipeline that consistently attracts future leaders into the department. Stanford University, Stanford Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine #genetics #stanfordmedicine #precisionhealth #genomicapproaches #generegulation #syntheticbiology #quantitativegenetics #biotechnology #lifescience #biomedicalresearch #innovation

Congratulations Polly Fordyce! Fordyce Receives 2024 President’s Award for Excellence Through Diversity.  https://lnkd.in/gZMScaWh Fordyce is an associate professor of bioengineering and of genetics and a Sarafan ChEM-H Institute scholar. Fordyce launched her independent lab at Stanford in 2014 and became director of the Bio-X Molecular Foundry shortly thereafter. In 2020, Fordyce co-founded the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium with professors Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley, and Jason Sello, University of California, San Francisco. The Next Generation Faculty Symposium is designed to highlight work from exceptionally talented early career scientists with a demonstrated track record of creative research and a commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. During 2020, 2021, and 2023, the Symposium regularly received 150-200 applications, and featured speakers were paired with faculty mentors to demystify the faculty job search process. These virtual symposia were attended by up to 450 viewers and most participants have since successfully launched their independent laboratories at R1 research universities, including seven at Stanford. With support from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, the 2022 event also promoted community and networking among recently hired faculty of color in the Bay Area with peer mentoring sessions, lightning talks, and more. Also, since 2015, Fordyce has taught BIOE 301D, a hands-on course in which teams of graduate and undergraduate students attempt to make devices in response to real-world needs “pitched” by clinical and life science laboratories on campus. In 2023, Fordyce and Jennifer Ortiz-Cárdenas, director of the Stanford Microfluidics Foundry, leveraged student projects from the course to develop and launch a new outreach program, housed within the Foundry and Stanford SciQube, focused on increasing research opportunities for community college students. Finally, as labs across campus shut down during the pandemic, Fordyce led an effort to collect PPE for frontline workers at the San Mateo County Hospital when she learned of shortages in their emergency department.

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