It was in high school that Steven Prescott first held a brain in his hands. It belonged to a fetal pig that he was dissecting in a biology course, and he remembers staring at it and marveling at how the human brain, though it functions similarly to a pig…
"I remember realizing when I wanted to become a scientist, after watching Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” says Ted Price, reflecting on his early-childhood watching of Carl Sagan’s award-winning PBS program. The show led Price to start reading popular-science books for kids and inspired his goal of becoming an astrophysicist.
Michael Rout has been named a 2021 Emerging Leader by the Bay Area Lyme Foundation…
Ben Black has been named a 2021 Transformative Research Awardee by the NIH…
David Van Valen has been named a 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation…
Emmanuelle Passegué had a rather unglamorous introduction to research as a young college student in France. Initially attracted to the field by fascinating papers filled with beautiful images of clean, unambiguous molecular mechanisms, the realities of working with fruit flies for biological research turned out to be quite different.
Rita Allen Scholar Samara Reck-Peterson (2009) and collaborators receive $7.2million grant from ASAP initiative to study mutations of LRRK2 protein in Parkinson’s disease…
A collaboration of researchers at Stanford, including Rita Allen Scholar Peter Kim (1990), will develop a serological assay for COVID-19 testing…
Rita Allen Scholar Yi Ye (2015) received a grant from NIDCR to study Schwann cells in oral cancer and pain…
Members of the American Association for Cancer Research have selected Rita Allen Scholar David Tuveson (2004) for president in 2021…