Stanford University School of Medicine is the
medical school
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of
Stanford University
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and is located in
Stanford, California
Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University. The population was 21,150 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census.
Stanford is ...
. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the
University of the Pacific, founded in
San Francisco
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in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near
Palo Alto, California
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, in 1959.
The School of Medicine, along with
Stanford Health Care
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and
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) is a nationally ranked women's and children's hospital which is part of the Stanford University Health system. The hospital is located adjacent to the campus at 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, Cal ...
, is part of Stanford Medicine.
Stanford Health Care
Stanford University Medical Center is a medical complex which includes Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health. It is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States and serves as a teaching hospital for the S ...
was ranked the fourth best hospital in
California
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(behind
UCLA Medical Center
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,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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, and
UCSF Medical Center
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, respectively).
History
In 1855, Illinois physician Elias Samuel Cooper moved to San Francisco in the wake of the
California Gold Rush
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. In cooperation with the
University of the Pacific (also known as California Wesleyan College), Cooper established the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, the first medical school on the
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, in 1858, on Mission Street near 3rd Street in San Francisco. However, in 1862 Cooper died, and without his leadership, the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific became moribund.
In 1870, Cooper's nephew,
Levi Cooper Lane
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, reactivated and reorganized the University of the Pacific's medical department, and, in 1882, Lane donated a new building at the intersection of Webster and Sacramento Streets and established the department as a separate school, the Cooper Medical College.
Lane built a hospital and a nursing school and made provision for the creation of
Lane Medical Library
Lane Medical Library is the library of the Stanford University School of Medicine at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California. Its mission is to "accelerate scientific discovery, clinical care, medical education and humanities through teach ...
.
In 1908, Cooper Medical College was deeded to Stanford University as a gift.
It became Stanford's medical institution, initially called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine.
In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees decided to move the school to the Stanford main campus near Palo Alto. The move was completed in 1959.
The San Francisco medical campus became Presbyterian Hospital and later
California Pacific Medical Center
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.
In the 1980s, the Medical Center launched a major expansion program. A new hospital was added in 1989 with 20 new operating rooms, state of the art intensive care and inpatient units, and other technological additions. The
Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine
The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine is an interdisciplinary center, part of Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Considered a "unique facility", it was one of the first research centers to t ...
opened in May 1989 as an interdisciplinary center focusing on the molecular and genetic basis of disease.
The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was completed in 1991, adding even more diversity to Stanford Medicine.
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In the early years of the 21st century, the School of Medicine underwent rapid construction to further expand teaching and clinical opportunities. The
Li Ka Shing
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Center for Learning and Knowledge opened in 2010; it serves as the gateway to the School of Medicine as well as providing a new model of medical education by combining biomedical research with clinical education and information technology. The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building also opened in 2010; it is the largest
stem cell
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and
regenerative medicine
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facility in North America.
The Stem Cell Research Building is the first of the planned Stanford Institutes of Medicine. In addition to research facilities, it houses offices for faculty from the Stanford Cancer Center and "hotel space" offices for visiting researchers.
Academic programs and students
The School of Medicine has reversed the traditional teaching method of classroom time being reserved for lectures and problem-solving exercises being completed outside of school as homework; with funding from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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, school leaders are heading up a collaboration on the use of the "flipped classroom" approach to content delivery.
The School of Medicine also has a long history of educating physician assistants (PAs). Stanford University partnered with Foothill College in 1971 to form the Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP) which has graduated more than 1,500 PAs. The last PCAP class graduated in 2018. Today, the Stanford School of Medicine offers a Master of Science in PA Studies program that seeks to train highly qualified clinical PAs who can practice in any area of medicine and also be leaders in community health, research, and medical education. The program offers a novel approach to curriculum delivery and expanded clinical opportunities as well as interprofessional education, with PA students taking courses side by side with MD students. The program is 30 months in length, accepts 27 students each year, has an acceptance rate of less than 2%.
Rankings and admissions
In the 2021 ''
U.S. News & World Report'' rankings, Stanford was ranked fourth in the nation among medical schools for research. Admission to the MD program at Stanford is highly competitive: in 2019, 6,894 people applied, 422 were interviewed, and 175 accepted for 90 spots.
Stanford is one of several schools in the United States to use the
multiple mini-interview
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system, developed at
McMaster University Medical School
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in Canada, to evaluate candidates.
Along with the School of Humanities and Science, the Stanford School of Medicine also runs the Biosciences
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Program, which was ranked first in 2019 among graduate programs in the biological sciences by ''
U.S. News & World Report''.
In its graduate school specialties, according to ''U.S. News'' for 2019, Stanford is #1 in
genetics
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,
genomics
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, and
bioinformatics
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, #1 in
neuroscience
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and neurobiology, #1 in
cell biology
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, #3 in
biochemistry
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,
biophysics
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, and
structural biology
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, and #4 in
ecology
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and
evolutionary biology
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.
Faculty
The School of Medicine has 1,948 full-time faculty. There have been eight
Nobel Prize
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winners over the past six decades, and among its 2019 faculty members are:
* 37 members of the
National Academy of Sciences
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* 49 members of the
National Academy of Medicine
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* 4
MacArthur Foundation
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“geniuses”
* 15
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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investigators
* 26
National Institutes of Health
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Innovator and Young Innovator Awards
Notable alumni
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Lori Alvord – First board-certified female
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surgeon, author of ''The Scalpel and the Silver Bear'' and 2013 nominee for
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*
John C. Baldwin
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– Former dean of
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and former president of the
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
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*
Cheri Blauwet
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– Professional cyclist, winner of Boston Marathon
*
William Brody – President of the
Salk Institute
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and former President of
Johns Hopkins University
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*
David D. Burns
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– Psychiatrist and author
*
Amy Chow
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–
Olympic
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gold medalist
*
Alexander A. Clerk
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– Psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist
*
Toby Freedman – Aerospace Medical Director/Sports Medicine (LA Rams and LA Lakers)
*
Bill Frist
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– Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow;
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, former presidential candidate
*
Randall B. Griepp
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–
Cardiothoracic surgeon
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who collaborated with
Norman Shumway
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in the development of the first successful
heart transplant
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procedures in the U.S.
*
Mary Halton
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– Physician,
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, and an early
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researcher, she graduated in 1900 from Cooper Medical College.
*
John C. Handy – Physician and surgeon in Tucson, Arizona (graduate of Medical College of the Pacific)
*
Eric Heiden
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– Olympic gold medalist and physician
*
David A. Karnofsky – Medical oncologist known for the
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*
Robert Kerlan
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*
Milt McColl
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– Former 49er
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and medical family doctor
*
Scott Parazynski
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– NASA Astronaut, veteran of 5
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missions
*
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
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(1921–2014) –
surfer and physician
*
Joshua Prager – Pain medicine specialist and neuromodulator
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Mary Elizabeth Bennett Ritter – One of the first women to earn an MD in California, advocate for women's rights and public health in Berkeley, California.
*
Gabriela Asturias Ruiz - Neuroscientist
*
Val Murray Runge – John Sealy Distinguished Chair and Professor of Radiology
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*
Belding Scribner
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Biography
Scribner received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1945. After completing his postgraduate stu ...
– Professor,
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, inventor of the Scribner Shunt
*
Irving Weissman
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– Stem cell biologist, founder of Systemix
*
Ray Lyman Wilbur
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Wilbur was born in Boonesboro, Iowa ...
– President of American Medical Association, President of Stanford (1916–1943), personal physician of President
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Owen Witte
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– Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at
UCLA
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Notable current and past faculty
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John R. Adler
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– Professor of Neurosurgery, inventor of the
Cyberknife
*
Ben Barres
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– Professor of Neurobiology, renowned for research on
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– Professor of Biology, winner of the 1958
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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*
Paul Berg
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– Biochemist, winner of the 1980
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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for discovery of
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*
Jay Bhattacharya
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- Professor of Medicine, Research Associate at the
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, and Director of Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
*
Eugene C. Butcher
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Eugene Butcher gained an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of ...
– Professor of Pathology, winner of the 2004
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Robert A. Chase
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– Professor of Surgery, founder of Stanford Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
*
Gilbert Chu
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Biography
Chu graduated from Garden City High School in New York in 1963. He received a B.A. in Physics from Pri ...
– Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine
*
Alexander A. Clerk
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– Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine (1990 -1998)
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Stanley Norman Cohen
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– Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells, winner of the
National Medal of Science
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, winner of the National Medal of Technology, inducted into
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Frances K. Conley – Famed female neurosurgeon known for advancing women in American medicine
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Karl Deisseroth
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He is known for creating and developing the technolo ...
– Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, pioneer of
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, winner of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
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William C. Dement
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– Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, pioneer in sleep research
*
Christian Guilleminault
Christian Guilleminault (1938– 9 July 2019) was a French people, French physician and researcher in the field of sleep medicine who played a central role in the early discovery of obstructive sleep apnea and made seminal discoveries in many ot ...
– Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, pioneer in sleep research, first to describe
Obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common sleep-related breathing disorder and is characterized by recurrent episodes of complete or partial obstruction of the upper airway leading to reduced or absent breathing during sleep. These episod ...
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Stanley Falkow
Stanley "Stan" Falkow (January 24, 1934 – May 5, 2018) was an American microbiologist and a professor of microbiology at Georgetown University, University of Washington, and Stanford University School of Medicine. Falkow is known as the father ...
– Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research, conducted pioneering work in how bacteria can cause human disease and how antibiotic resistance spreads, winner of the
National Medal of Science
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Andrew Fire
Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mell ...
– Winner of the 2006
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Thomas J. Fogarty – Clinical Professor of Surgery, member of
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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, owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter
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Ralph S. Greco
Ralph Steven Greco (May 25, 1942 – March 31, 2019) was the Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor, Emeritus of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a leader of the resident Well Being in surgery movement and surgical ...
– Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor, Emeritus of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine
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Philip Hanawalt – Hertzstein Professor of Biology and Dermatology, discovered
transcription coupled repair
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of DNA
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Griffith R. Harsh
Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV (born July 25, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon. In 2018, he became the chair of the department of neurological surgery at UC Davis Health. He is married to business executive Meg Whitman. He is a direct descendant ...
– Vice Chair of the Stanford Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Stanford Brain Tumor Center, spouse of
Meg Whitman
Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is the US ambassador to Kenya, an American business executive and former gubernatorial candidate for California. She is a board member of Procter & Gamble and General Motors. Whitman was previously ...
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Leonard Herzenberg
Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg (November 5, 1931 – October 27, 2013) was an immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University. His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their spe ...
– Winner of the
Kyoto Prize
The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...
for development of
fluorescent-activated cell sorting
Flow cytometry (FC) is a technique used to detect and measure physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles.
In this process, a sample containing cells or particles is suspended in a fluid and injected into the flo ...
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Henry S. Kaplan
Henry Seymour Kaplan (April 24, 1918 – February 4, 1984) was an American radiologist who pioneered in radiation therapy and radiobiology.
Career
Kaplan earned his degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, after which he trained at the Un ...
– Pioneer in
radiation therapy
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radia ...
for
cancer
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, inventor of the first
linear accelerator
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in the Western hemisphere
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Jennifer L. Kelsey – Expert in epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, former Chief of Epidemiology
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Brian Kobilka
Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in ...
– Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, winner of the 2012
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic aci ...
– Winner of the 1959
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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(with Severo Ochoa) for discovery of the mechanisms of the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA
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Roger Kornberg
Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which ...
– Winner of the 2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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, discoverer of nucleosome and transcriptional mediator, member of National Academy of Sciences
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William Langston
J. William Langston is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Movement Disorder Specialist, and Chief Executive Officer of the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, California, the founding member of the Scientific Advisory B ...
– Founder and chief executive officer of the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north ...
, California
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Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt, ( he, מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistr ...
– Winner of the 2013
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Joshua Lederberg
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...
– Founder of the Stanford department of genetics, co-recipient of 1958
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Donald Laub
Donald R. Laub Sr. (born January 1, 1935) is an American retired plastic surgeon and founder of Interplast, which led multidisciplinary teams on reconstructive surgery missions to developing countries.
Education
Laub completed his undergraduate ...
– Founder of
ReSurge International
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Kate Lorig
Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., is an American professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. She is known for her work on chronic disease and patient education, has p ...
– Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center
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Alex Macario - Professor of Anesthesiology
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Yvonne Maldonado
Yvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado is an American physician, pediatrician, and Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University, with a focus on Infectious Diseases. She founded Stanford's pediatric HIV Clinic and now serve ...
– COVID-19 research
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Judith Graham Pool
Judith Ethel Graham Pool (June 1, 1919 — July 13, 1975) was an Americans, American scientist. She is best known for the discovery of cryoprecipitate, cryoprecipitation, a process for creating concentrated blood clotting factors which significan ...
— Discovered cryoprecipitate, founded and chaired the Professional Women of Stanford University Medical School, founding member and co-president of the
Association for Women in Science The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) was founded in 1971 at the annual Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) meeting. The organization aims to combat job discrimination, lower pay, and professional isolation. The ...
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Daria Mochly-Rosen – George D. Smith Professor for Translational Medicine
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Stephen Quake
Stephen Ronald Quake (born 1969) is an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He earned his B.S. in physics and M.S. in mathematics from Stanford in 1991 and his D.Phil. in physics from Oxford University in 1994 as a Marshall Scholar. Hi ...
– Professor and co-chair of Bioengineering, founder of Fluidigm Corp, Helicos Biosciences, inventor of non-invasive prenatal diagnostics by sequencing, winner of Lemelson-MIT Prize
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Bruce Reitz
Bruce A. Reitz is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, best known for leading the first combined heart-lung transplantation in 1981 with pioneer heart transplant surgeon Norman Shumway. He obtained an undergraduate degree at Stanford University ( ...
– Performed first combined adult human heart-lung transplant
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Robert Sapolsky
Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In ad ...
– Famous neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology, most noted for his studies on
stress
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Science and medicine
* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...
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Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro (born July 16, 1940, New York City) is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Resea ...
– Professor of Developmental Biology, winner of the
National Medal of Science
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Norman Shumway
Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human ...
– Heart transplant pioneer, performed first heart transplant in the United States
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Lyman Maynard Stowe
Lyman Maynard Stowe (March 14, 1914 – June 2, 1965) was an Americans, American physician and Academic administration, academic administrator. He served as the first dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The Lyman Maynard St ...
– former Stanford Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and first dean of the
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is a medical school located in Farmington, Connecticut. It was founded in 1961, enrolled students in 1968, and graduated its first class in 1972.
The school is part of UConn Health, along with th ...
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Lubert Stryer
Lubert Stryer (born March 2, 1938, in Tianjin, China) is the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light ...
–
National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
recipient, Winzer Professor of Neurobiology, author of
biochemistry
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textbook
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Samuel Strober
Samuel Strober (-) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for life long immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients.
Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and ...
– former chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, co-founder of
Dendreon
Dendreon is a biotechnology company. Its lead product, Provenge (known generically as sipuleucel-T), is an immunotherapy for prostate cancer. It consists of a mixture of the patient's own blood cells (autologous, with dendritic cells thought to be ...
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Thomas C. Südhof
Thomas Christian Südhof (; born December 22, 1955), ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular P ...
– Winner of the 2013
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Edward Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The o ...
– Co-winner of the 1958
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Jared Tinklenberg
Jared R. Tinklenberg was an American professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Tinklenberg passed away on November 18, 2020 at age 80.
Education
Tinklenberg held a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Iowa.
Career
Tinklen ...
– Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Irving Weissman
Irving Lerner "Irv" Weissman (born Great Falls, Montana, October 21, 1939) is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medic ...
– Leading stem cell biologist, director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, founder of Systemix
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