We’re highlighting some of the many impactful contributions from the Sarafan ChEM-H community this year. Read the thread below for our #YearInReview!

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and a bright, hopeful start to 2026.

Out now: We present antibody-lectin chimeras (AbLecs) as a molecular platform to target sugars, or glycans, for cancer immunotherapy. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mitcheme.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

Check out the latest edition of The ChEM-H Quartery! mailchi.mp/stanford/the...

Meet Christopher Caridi Christopher, High-content Imaging Scientist at the Nucleus. In this Employee Spotlight, he reflects on his career path, what he finds most rewarding about his work, why Stanford researchers should partner with the HTS group & more: chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...

Get alerts on the latest brain aging news, publications, datasets, and tools by subscribing to our newsletter. The first edition will go out on Dec 17 via email and LinkedIn. Subscribe via email: stanford.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/stan...

Stanford researchers spread winter cheer by writing cards to senior citizens while enjoying warm drinks and treats at a Coffee and Card Making social jointly hosted by Wu Tsai Neuro and @stanford-chemh.bsky.social.

A collaboration with Daniel Fernandez at the Nucleus at Sarafan ChEM-H and Alana Gudinas in the lab of Danielle Mai reveals a new protein structure that provides clues towards engineering proteins for sustainable metal capture:

The lab of Institute Scholar Peter Kim searches for an all-in-on filovirus vaccine:

Meet Sachin Jadhav, Senior Scientific Program Manager at the Stanford Innovative Medicines Accelerator. In our latest Employee Spotlight, Sachin shares how he regularly finds himself at the center of cutting-edge research, what he enjoys outside of work, and more

What if “vaccines were to arrive in your mailbox in a ketchup packet and they didn't make you feel bad”? Hear from Institute Scholar Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social on the Future of Everything podcast about possible needle-free vaccines of the future:

Steven Corsello works towards repurposing drugs to fight cancer in new ways, leading to an ongoing collaboration with Institute Scholar Nathanael Gray and the Innovative Medicines Accelerator:

Institute Scholar Laura Dassama @lmkdassama.bsky.social is working on a new strategy to treat the painful blood disorder sickle cell disease with the goal of creating more effective and accessible therapies: stanmed.stanford.edu/innovations-...

Listen to Institute Scholar Lingyin Li @lingyinli.bsky.social on the Future of Everything podcast about how her immunotherapy work is exposing hidden cancers and developing new drugs to fight them: engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...

Check out this amazing story from the labs of @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar Paul Mischel and Howard Chang @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chaitan Khosla and Nielsen Fernandez-Becker start a clinical trial to test a more reliable way to diagnose celiac disease, one of the most common autoimmune conditions triggered by eating gluten, a protein found in wheat and other grains:

Two former Stanford grad students have been recognized in the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists: Uche Medoh, PhD ’24 and former Sarafan ChEM-H CBI scholar, won the Grand Prize & King L. Hung @kinglhung.bsky.social, PhD ’24, was named a Category Winner chemh.stanford.edu/news/two-sta...

Congrats King Hung, Science & SciLifeLabs award winner @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, collaborating with @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar @paulmischel.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great piece on @arcinstitute.org investigator and former @stanford-chemh.bsky.social CBI graduate program alum @uchemedoh.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab prize 🏆 👏

Meet Susan Carter, Administrative Associate at Sarafan ChEM-H. In our latest Employee Spotlight, Susan shares how her role allows her to connect with others and contribute meaningfully to the institute’s vision and mission, her career journey, and more: chemh.stanford.edu/news/get-kno...

Congratulations, we are so lucky to have Nicole Martinez among our institute scholars @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 🙏

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Nicole Martinez for receiving the 2025 Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award!

Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.

Congratulations to Institute Scholar Peter Kim for receiving $18 million grant from CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) to develop vaccines targeting the deadly Ebola, Marburg, and other related viruses, including those that have not yet emerged: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Reminder to apply by Wednesday, Oct. 15th!

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

We're hiring! Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team. Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... @pollyfordyce.bsky.social

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo... @hhmi.org

Stanford Innovative Medicines Accelerator (IMA) is hiring a Research Scientist, Cell & Gene Therapies (6-month role). Play a critical role in enabling projects at multiple stages of the translational pipeline and help create novel therapies! Learn more & apply: ima.stanford.edu/job/director...

This is a result of hard work by Aidan Cabral, Manasi Sawant, Minwoo Kang and our collaborator Frank Xie. #ProudMentor.

We look forward to hearing feedback from the community on our #preprint where we used #NETosis as a platform to show that chromatin decompaction inside the nucleus directly regulates cell mechanics. This work identifies long-range biophysical impacts of chromatin in mammalian cells.

“Chemistry is deeply involved in our everyday lives. And you can look for it in any activity, passion, or interest.” Recent Chemistry PhD graduate & CBI fellow Shoshana Williams shares her journey teaching chemistry in Bangladesh & connecting with her students: chemh.stanford.edu/news/art-che...

ENPP1 drug developed by Institute Scholar @lingyinli.bsky.social gains FDA approval for Phase I cancer clinical trials: arcinstitute.org/news/stf-162...

Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)

A Science podcast featuring the work of Institute Scholar Paul Mischel and his quest to cure difficult-to-treat cancers by targeting DNA loops that break traditional laws of genetic inheritance: www.science.org/content/podc...

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

Congratulations to Alex Choi (Stanley Qi Lab) for receiving the Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award! postdocs.stanford.edu/current-post...

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...

Sarafan ChEM-H awards four $25K seed grants to fund collaborations w/ the new chemoproteomics group, led by @dina-sch.bsky.social at the Nucleus, a collection of labs that leverage scientific experts& advanced instrumentation to facilitate discoveries @stanford.edu chemh.stanford.edu/news/sarafan...

Don't miss this live webinar with Q&A for the celiac community on September 29, 2025 9:00 am PST! Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Introducing HB-2121: A Study Focused on Improving Celiac Disease Diagnosis: Dr. Nasim Khavari & Dr. Nielsen Fernandez-Becker, Stanford Medicine

🧬 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