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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects seven Stanford professors to 2013 class of members Congratulations to Suzanne Pfeffer for her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Suzanne has been a leader in both science and the scientific community. Few have had the commitment and skills to serve as President of two of the major scientific Societies, for example.
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Exciting News from Stanford Biochemistry Dr. Onn Brandman will join our department as a new Assistant Professor in September 2013. As a postdoc at UCSF, Onn used innovative screens to discover a new Ribosome Quality Control Complex that degrades stalled polypeptides and signals stress to Heat shock factor 1 via a novel pathway that is independent of and distinct from other stresses.
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US News rates Stanford as top graduate school in the biological sciences A graduate degree in biological sciences gives students a broad base of knowledge in the life sciences. The discipline also offers many specialties, such as cell or molecular biology.
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Department alum Jon Lorsch to become Director of National Institute of General Medical Sciences Dr. Lorsch comes to the NIH from Johns Hopkins University, where he is a Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at Stanford University.
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Julie Theriot has been promoted to professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and immunology. Congratulations Julie Theriot!
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Suzanne Pfeffer is named the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences. Congratulations Suzanne Pfeffer!
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How a community of online gamers is changing basic biomedical research This weekend at the Medicine X conference, Stanford biochemist Rhiju Das, PhD, shared with the audience how he and colleagues are tapping into the online gaming community to accelerate researchers’ understanding of DNA’s once-unsung chemical cousin, RNA. Read the full article and watch the video here.
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New Innovator Award Congratulations Rajat Rohatgi! Dr. Rohatgi will receive the New Innovator Award, designed to fund innovative research by investigators who are within 10 years of completing their education or clinical residency, but who have not yet received an R01 grant, which is the most common mode of NIH funding, or another equivalent type of NIH support. Each award provides $1.5 million over five years. Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD, assistant professor of oncology, will use his New Innovator funding to continue his studies of an antennae-like cellular protrusion called the primary cilium that detects and processes optical, chemical and mechanical signals in a cell's environment.
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Lasker Award goes to biochemist James Spudich Spudich, the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will receive the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his trailblazing investigations of the molecular motors that drive our skeletal muscle contractions and heartbeats, enable our cells to divide, and power patrolling immune cells through our tissues. Watch the interview video here.
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Dr. Steve Artandi featured on the SoM hompage New research shows how enzyme key to cell replication gets ferried to chromosome tips “If telomerase is unable to maintain the ends of the chromosomes, cells will stop multiplying,” said professor of medicine Steven Artandi, MD, PhD. “This would be advantageous in cancer cells, but in normal stem cells it can cause severe dysfunction and lead to diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, aplastic anemia and a genetic condition called dyskeratosis congenita. We want to understand how telomerase works, and to develop therapies for cancer and these other diseases.”
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The 2012 Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences Congratulations Jim Spudich! Spudich is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology at the School of Medicine.
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2012 Faculty and Graduate Student Service and Teaching Awards to Faculty and Residents Congratulations Mark Krasnow for receiving the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching! Congratulations Dan Herschlag for receiving the School of Medicine Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate Students! Read the Dean's Newsletter here.
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Theriot and Harbury's revamped Biochemistry course as new model for Medical Education Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education For most of the 20th century, lectures provided an efficient way to transfer knowledge. But in an era with a perfect video-delivery platform — one that serves up billions of YouTube views and millions of TED Talks on such things as technology, entertainment, and design — why would anyone waste precious class time on a lecture? Read the full artical here.
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Ronald Davis in Forbes - It's Time to Bet on Genomics Is genomics and personalized medicine the greatest business and investment opportunity since the advent of the Internet? Read the full artical here. |
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2012 NSF Graduate Fellowships The Biochemistry Department would like to congratulate our 2012 NSF Award recipients:
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