🧬 Exciting #celiac research news! Stanford developed HB-2121, an investigational drug to detect celiac WITHOUT gluten consumption. 📅 Webinar Monday 9/29 at 9am PDT (Register for recording) 🔬 Seeking volunteers (with & without celiac), $400 compensation Info: celiaccommunity.org/2025/hb-2121/

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 Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social for being named a 2025 Schmidt Polymath! www.schmidtsciences.org/eight-scient...

New faculty position opening at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social . Especially interested in candidates with deep expertise and vision for the future of AI/ML/computational models of biomolecules. Please RT

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely! chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Great piece on @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar Paul Mischel @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social

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!

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 6: Organisms to Networks and Engineering Health More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 5: Sensors and Actuators, From Understanding to Design More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 4: Physical Forces and Mechanobiology More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 3: Immunology and Cell-Cell Interactions More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 2: Genomics and Nucleic Acid Therapies More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 1: Deciphering How Sequence Encodes Transcription More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

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

Register for Dr. Christian Dzuvor’s presentation at the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium! ⬇️ 📆 Wednesday, September 10 from 9:30 am-1:45 pm Pacific Time (12:30 pm-4:45 pm Eastern Time) Registration Link: czbiohub.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Sarafan ChEM-H (@stanford-chemh.bsky.social)

Check out the latest edition of The ChEM-H Quarterly: mailchi.mp/stanford/the...

I am honored to be on the steering committee for this wonderful symposium that is highlighting scientists entering the job market. Tune in with us!

Learn more and register for the upcoming Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25: czbiohub.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congratulations on this exciting new work @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social !

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

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

Harvard professor Sophia Shi is featured in an article about her PhD work at Stanford, in which she found changes in the brain’s “sugar shield” during aging and what this might mean for treating brain diseases: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Faculty fellow Scott Dixon and team investigated how a cancer drug candidate in clinical trials kills cancer cells in a new way, offering clues for new treatments that may be effective against cancers that resist available therapies: humsci.stanford.edu/feature/nove...

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...

Congratulations to @isaacapaddy.bsky.social, a PhD student advised by Institute Scholar @lmkdassama.bsky.social, for being named a 2025 @hhmi.org‬ Gilliam Fellow!

'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/...

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...

Come work with us at the Nucleus @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! Happy to help you with proteome analyses, identifying your drug targets, understanding drug mechanisms, and much more 🔎🕵🏻

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...

Former CBI student Uche Medoh uncovered the function of a protein that makes a fat molecule called BMP. When this machinery fails, it leads to toxic waste build-up in neurons, revealing a missing link that could lead to treatments of neurological diseases:

Meet Nathan Gossett, Associate Director of Finance and Administration at Sarafan ChEM-H. As a key partner to leadership, he ensures the smooth & effective operation of our institute. Here he shares his career journey, the most rewarding aspects of his job and more: chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...

"You can literally lose who you are." Institute Scholar Monther Abu‑Remaileh @abu-remaileh.bsky.social and team are working to uncover the role of lysosomes, our cells’ recycling centers, in degenerative brain disorders in order to identify a cure:

In our next Employee Spotlight Q&A, we are featuring Amanda Espinoza, Operations Manager, MITI, who manages all aspects of administration for the team's research collaborations. Here we learn about her nonlinear career path, her passion for jiu jitsu, and more: chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...

#ICYMI Congratulations to Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! The Barnes lab is working on next generation vaccines and antibody-based treatments to tackle emerging RNA viruses.

Check out this prize-winning essay by postdoc @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social on her work with @mfgrp.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏

#ICYMI This year's Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Retreat showcased cutting-edge research of graduate students who take a molecular approach to advance human health & featured a keynote lecture + fireside chat with Prof. Paula Hammond ‪@mitcheme.bsky.social‬ : chemh.stanford.edu/news/annual-...

Researchers in the @synbiogaolab.bsky.social‬ lab use machine learning to lay the foundation for safer gene therapies that avoid unwanted immune responses:

‪[email protected], advised by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social‬ & Tony Wyss-Coray, featured in a Q&A on her scientific journey, changes in the sugary coating on the blood-brain barrier during aging & her vision for starting her own lab: genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

Institute Scholar @lingyinli.bsky.social‬ reflects on digging into the details of failed experiments and how failure analysis can catalyze scientific discovery—in her case, uncovering the role of an innate immune pathway in seeking and destroying cancer cells:

Wondering what to read this summer? With contributions from the amazing Sarafan ChEM-H community, we have curated a diverse and inspiring summer reading list along with a brief note on why each book was chosen: chemh.stanford.edu/news/sarafan...

CBI co-director and annual retreat highlights; observing genome dynamics; finding clues to treat neurodegenerative disease; employee spotlight; summer reading list; and more in this edition of The ChEM-H Quarterly: mailchi.mp/stanford/the...

Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @hhmi.org 🎉 🍾 www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

“What we really hope to do is to form students who are going to be fluent in multiple scientific languages.” Christine Jacobs-Wagner joins @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social‬ to train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists at Sarafan ChEM-H chemh.stanford.edu/news/christi...

Truly wonderful to celebrate these amazing scientists graduating from the Dassama group! Congrats to @mekedlawitts.bsky.social @jonathanccc-chem.bsky.social on their PhDs and to Sebastian Alfonso on his Masters, all in Chemistry! @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

CBI co-director and annual retreat highlights; observing genome dynamics; finding clues to treat neurodegenerative disease; employee spotlight; summer reading list; and more in this edition of The ChEM-H Quarterly: mailchi.mp/stanford/the...

New CRISPR technology developed by @stanleyqilab.bsky.social‬, Mengting Han & team could pave the way for potential treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and spinal muscular dystrophy:

So honored to have Prof. Paula Hammond teach and inspire us all as keynote speaker for the @stanford-chemh.bsky.social CBI graduate program retreat 🙏

And that concludes this year’s CBI retreat! Thank you to the team behind this program, especially @queerentist.bsky.social, Lynette Haberman, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, and @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social‬, for organizing this event and supporting our CBI graduate student scholars!

Last but not least, we have Meredith Nix in the Nathanael Gray lab where she works on developing bivalent molecular glues to target cancer.