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Ellen Kuhl
Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
Current Research and Scholarly Interestscomputaitonal simulation of brain development, cortical folding, computational simulation of cardiac disease, heart failure, left ventricular remodeling, electrophysiology, excitation-contraction coupling, computer-guided surgical planning, patient-specific simulation
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Andre Kumar MD, MEd
Clinical Professor, Medicine
BioDr. Andre Kumar is a Clinical Professor in the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine with a passion for improving patient care through Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), clinical research, and education. He earned his MD from Tulane University and completed his residency, chief residency, and a Master's in Education at Stanford University.
Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in creating, operationalizing, and leading multi-center clinical trials, including investigations related to POCUS, COVID-19 therapeutics, procedural safety, and the long-term health consequences of infections on the heart and lungs. He continues to conduct research and teach POCUS on a local and national level, and is committed to improving the science and education that underlie the next generation of diagnostic tools. Currently, his research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on numerous healthcare applications, particularly for the improving the accuracy of clinician diagnosis, evidence-based management, and medical imaging.
Dr. Kumar is also a committed educator and mentor to the next generation of physicians. His contributions to medical education have been recognized with several awards, including the Lawrence H. Mathers Award for Exceptional Commitment to Teaching (2023), the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching (2018, 2022), and the David A. Rytand Clinical Teaching Award (2018, 2022, and 2025). Dr. Kumar has contributed to the creation of free educational content for POCUS, including videos for the Stanford Medicine 25 series, New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA, which have amassed over 2,000,000 views worldwide.
Dr. Kumar has held numerous leadership positions that reflect his commitment to advancing medical education and clinical practice. He is also the Co-Founder and Director of the SHAPE Program in the Stanford Internal Medicine Residency Program and Co-Director of Clinical Reasoning at Stanford School of Medicine. He previously served as President for the Society of Hospital Medicine Bay Area and Director of the Rathmann Medical Education Fellowship.
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Anshul Kundaje
Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe develop statistical and machine learning frameworks to model gene regulation and decipher the genetic and molecular basis of disease
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Christian Kunder
Clinical Associate Professor, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main interest is in understanding the biology of human neoplasms, using traditional histopathology, molecular genetic techniques, and other modalities. In particular, I am interested in soft tissue and genitourinary neoplasms, especially prostate cancer.
I am also interested in the classification and nomenclature of neoplasms and in practical research that helps us refine these, using a variety of techniques but still principally guided by histopathology.
I also work on developing next generation sequencing-based tests for genotyping tumors and in expanding the scope of this testing with the goal of identifying patients eligible for novel targeting therapies. -
Calvin Kuo
Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study cancer biology, intestinal stem cells (ISC), and angiogenesis. We use primary organoid cultures of diverse tissues and tumor biopsies for immunotherapy modeling, oncogene functional screening and stem cell biology. Angiogenesis projects include blood-brain barrier regulation, stroke therapeutics and anti-angiogenic cancer therapy. ISC projects apply organoid culture and ko mice to injury-inducible vs homeostatic stem cells and symmetric division mechanisms.
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Christin S Kuo
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
BioDr. Kuo is a physician-scientist with expertise in single-cell genomics and pulmonary medicine. She has made pioneering contributions to pulmonary neuroendocrine cell (PNEC) biology by developing innovative strategies that established the first comprehensive framework for understanding the molecular and cellular diversity of normal PNECs and their roles in health and disease. Her discoveries have laid the foundation for this emerging field and her contributions are recognized internationally.
PNECs are exceedingly rare lung epithelial cells with specialized airway sensory, secretory, and stem cell functions. These neurosensory cells are thought to monitor airway oxygen, chemicals, mechanical deformation, infection, and injury, and serve as sentinels that signal this sensory information locally in the lung, to the brain through synapses with pulmonary sensory neurons and potentially globally throughout the body via secretion of myriad local signals and hormones. PNECs are also known to play critical roles in the control of breathing, cough, and respiratory physiology. Among their diverse physiologic functions, their response to injury has been most intensively studied in murine models and they are a cell of origin for high grade lung neuroendocrine tumors.
Dr. Kuo performed the first comprehensive anatomical mapping and lineage tracing studies of PNECs in mice which generated a foundational understanding of PNEC development (Kuo and Krasnow, Cell 2015). She also led single cell transcriptomic profiling studies that revealed a surprising diversity in PNEC sensors and signals (Kuo et al, eLife 2022). PNECs express over 25 different sensory receptor genes ("sensors") and over 40 different neuropeptide and peptide hormone genes ("signals"). Her scRNA-seq analysis of PNECs revealed a remarkable number and diversity of PNEC neuropeptide signals and their predicted cellular targets both within the lung and to innervating sensory neurons (Kuo et al., 2022, eLife).
In contrast to the advanced understanding of PNEC development, stem cell, and signaling function in mouse, little is known about human PNECs. To compare the findings of PNEC development, diversity, and function in mouse models to human diseases, her lab recently established a platform to systematically construct a human PNEC atlas. This foundational work created a molecular and anatomic framework for the entire human pulmonary neuroendocrine system and the diseases that are predicted to originate from distinct PNECs. Her lab has recently used this new PNEC atlas combined with single cell transcriptomic approaches to identify the molecular diversity of anatomically and functionally distinct human PNECs.
Dr. Kuo's studies with human models extends her lab’s current research aims to define the diverse neuroendocrine sensory and signaling interactions and the molecules that mediate them to their roles in lung cancer, neuroendocrine proliferative disorders such as diffuse idiopathic neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH), neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI) and major inflammatory and obstructive pulmonary diseases. Dr. Kuo’s lab engages a network of collaborators to develop and implement clinical protocols and strategically apply cutting-edge technologies to studying minor, but physiologically diverse airway sentinels.
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WILLIAM T. KUO, MD, FSIR, FCCP, FSVM, FACR, FCIRSE
Professor of Radiology (Interventional Radiology)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1) LASER-ASSISTED AND COMPLEX IVC FILTER RETRIEVAL
2) CATHETER-DIRECTED THERAPY FOR ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM
3) INTERNATIONAL PE REGISTRY
4) IVC FILTER REGISTRY
5) ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF CAVAL AND DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS
