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ALT Speakers: Nicholas Agard • Genentech Steven Banik • Stanford Michael Boyce • Duke Xing Chen • Peking University Penelope Drake • 16 Waves Danielle Dube • Bowdoin Ryan Flynn • Harvard Zev Gartner • UCSF Howard Hang • Scripps Matt Hangauer • UC San Diego Ramesh Jasti • Oregon Jennifer Kohler • UTSW Jessica Kramer • Utah Lara Mahal • Alberta Stacy Malaker • Yale Lisa Marcaurelle • GSK Matthew Pratt • USC Jennifer Prescher • UCI Benjamin Schumann • TU Dresden Sloan Siegrist • UMass Amherst Ellen Sletten • Dartmouth David Vocadlo • Simon Fraser Christina Woo • Harvard Peng Wu • Scripps
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ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research.
ALT Speakers: Nicholas Agard • Genentech Steven Banik • Stanford Michael Boyce • Duke Xing Chen • Peking University Penelope Drake • 16 Waves Danielle Dube • Bowdoin Ryan Flynn • Harvard Zev Gartner • UCSF Howard Hang • Scripps Matt Hangauer • UC San Diego Ramesh Jasti • Oregon Jennifer Kohler • UTSW Jessica Kramer • Utah Lara Mahal • Alberta Stacy Malaker • Yale Lisa Marcaurelle • GSK Matthew Pratt • USC Jennifer Prescher • UCI Benjamin Schumann • TU Dresden Sloan Siegrist • UMass Amherst Ellen Sletten • Dartmouth David Vocadlo • Simon Fraser Christina Woo • Harvard Peng Wu • Scripps
ALT Heloise Hoffman
ALT Jon Long and Lisa Kim
ALT The ChEM-H Quarterly, Summer 2026
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ALT Monther Abu-Remaileh
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ALT Congratulations to Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H Carolyn Bertozzi on being awarded the 2026 EDGE in Tech Athena Award for Lifetime Achievement.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Rebecca Pinals together with Eric Sun, and Yuecheng (Peter) Zhou on being one of the six teams to win awards for Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems.
ALT Community spotlights, $50k seed grants to enhance human health, insights about weight loss from the metabolism of pythons, faculty honors, and more!
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on winning the 2026 ACS Infectious Diseases Early Career Award for her innovative research, potential for future impact, and dedication to advancing scientific knowledge.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama for receiving the 2026 Protein Science Young Investigator Award in recognition of her work characterizing lipid-binding proteins in bacteria for mitigating multidrug resistance
ALT “Chemistry is an amazing tool to answer life’s biggest questions on a molecular scale.” - Shoshana Williams, Chemistry PhD student ‘25, Student Spotlight Series, Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H
ALT Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the UEP, welcoming new Institute Scholars, a groundbreaking atlas of lysosomal proteins, employee spotlight, and more.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Steven Banik on being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, an honor awarded to promising early-career researchers paving the way for new scientific advancements.
ALT “The most interesting problems to solve are when you put scientists and clinicians together and say, ‘How do we solve this problem?” - Carlos Rodriguez Santiago, Chemical Engineering PhD student, Student Spotlight Series, Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM
ALT “ I wanted to be part of an interdisciplinary community that is focused on using diverse approaches to tackle big problems related to human health.” - Isabel Larus, Chemical and Systems Biology PhD student, Student Spotlight Series, Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H
ALT Before the year ends, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to our incredible community at Sarafan ChEM-H, as well as our partners and collaborators, for their unwavering support. As we look ahead to 2026, we do so with great excitement and optimism. Wishing you all a peaceful, restorative, and joyful holiday season!
ALT Read about award-winning scientists, advances in sickle cell and celiac treatments, vaccines of the future, cancer breakthroughs, podcasts, and more!
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Nicole Martinez for receiving the 2025 Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award, given to early career female scientists for their innovative basic or translational biomedical research.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Peter Kim for being receiving $18 million grant from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to develop broadly effective antiviral vaccine.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes for being named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, an honor that recognizes excellence in scientific research and mentorship.
ALT Open Faculty Positon: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Click the link above to learn more & apply!
ALT Congratulations to Alex Choi (Stanley Qi Lab) for receiving the Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award. Alex is being recognized for CRISPRkit – a $2 CRISPR lesson that makes biotechnology more affordable, equitable, and accessible.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Hawa Racine Thiam for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. Hawa is being recognized for being a trailblazer of subcellular biophysics and unveiling new paradigms of biophysical immunology through her dynamic measurements of physical forces on organelles in real time.
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ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Monther Abu-Remaileh for winning the 2026 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research. The award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids by a young investigator.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce for being named a 2025 Schmidt Polymath. Polly will work toward enabling crowd-sourced, megascale measurements of protein function, which will yield critical data required to drive revolutionary advances in functional protein design.
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ALT Colwyn Headley, PhD, is an Instructor at Stanford University (cheadley@Stanford.edu); Thomas Pomberger, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University (thomas.pomberger@duke.edu); Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza, MD, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University (brenda.cabrera-mendoza@yale.edu)
ALT Eman Akam-Baxter, PhD, is an Instructor at Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital (eakam@mgh.harvard.edu); Maia Kinnebrew, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University (mkinnebr@stanford.edu); Fernando Medina Ferrer, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley (medinaferrer@berkeley.edu)
ALT Joshua Francois, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (joshua_francois@hms.harvard.edu); Rikki Garner, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (rikkimgarner@gmail.com); Piere Rodriguez Aliaga, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (piererod@stanford.edu)
ALT Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (sariam@stanford.edu); Juan Inclan Rico, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (jmirico.k16@gmail.com); Christian Dzuvor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (christian_dzuvor@hsph.harvard.edu)
ALT Noa Katz, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (katznoa@stanford.edu); Jingxun Chen, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (jchen415@stanford.edu); Brea Manuel, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (bmanu15@umbc.edu)
ALT Joan Pulupa, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University (jp4152@columbia.edu); Sebastian Castillo-Hair, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Washington (castillohair@gmail.com); Isaac López-Moyado, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (ilopezmo@lji.org)
ALT 2025 Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium, Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 1:45 PM Pacific
ALT Read about seed grants supporting cancer research at the Nucleus, meet the new CBI graduate students, browse the pioneering work of our Institute Scholars in human health, and more!
ALT Open Faculty Positon: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Click the link above to learn more & apply!
ALT Isaac Paddy
ALT Djenet Bousbaine
ALT Uche Medoh
ALT Christopher Barnes
ALT A collage of the covers of all the books in the summer reading list.
ALT Christine Jacobs-Wagner
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ALT Luis Valencia
ALT Paula Hammond delivers the keynote lecture.
ALT Carolyn Bertozzi giving opening remarks.
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes who won the AAI ASPIRE Award that recognizes up to six outstanding early career investigators for research accomplishments and professional promise in the field of immunology.
ALT Stanley Qi and W.E. Moerner
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Christopher Barnes who won the Protein Science Young Investigator Award for bringing cutting-edge structural biology tools to bear on complex immunological problems.
ALT Congratulations to our amazing Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce for being named both an AAAS fellow and an AIMBE fellow!
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Paul Mischel for being elected 2025 Fellow of the AACR Academy for his transformative cancer research contributions.
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ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Monther Abu-Remaileh for being named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow. The fellowship recognizes promising early-career scientific leaders in the US.
ALT Institute Scholar Nicole Martinez is unraveling how small changes to the chemical structure of RNA affect which genes are expressed in our cells and when.
ALT Celebrating 5 years of the ChEM-H/Neuro Research Complex
ALT “The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at Sarafan ChEM-H gives undergrads—especially those in fields like chemistry and biology—the opportunity to explore an entrepreneurial track early in their careers." - Beth Ponder
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “I’m most looking forward to the Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Program monthly meetings and our yearly retreat! I’ve made great connections at these events and love learning about research in other labs, such as in the Du Bois, Gao, and Dror labs.”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “With my background in protein engineering, I'm eager to explore biological questions using chemical biology tools. This year, I'll join a neuroscience lab that actively uses fluorescent biosensors for in vivo imaging. This opportunity will allow me to understand neuronal processes through advanced imaging techniques. I am excited for it!”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “We expect in vivo POC data for six different molecules in six different disease areas. This will be the moment of truth for us, and we will be happy to share our results.”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “I am most excited about advancing and integrating multi-omics research to better understand its role in health and disease. I look forward to developing new assays, collaborating with fellow researchers, and unlocking new opportunities for discovery and innovation.”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “Coming to Stanford has been very exciting, but now I am looking forward to officially joining a lab and starting work on a thesis project.”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “I am most looking forward to touring Australia and New Zealand with the Stanford Chamber Chorale next summer! I'm so grateful for the community of singers with whom I've been able to make music on campus as a graduate student.”
ALT What are you looking forward to in 2025? “I’m looking forward to seeing how far we can advance the Sol-moiety technology through preclinical development.”