School of Medicine
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Antonina Hafner
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Biology
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Alistair Boettiger in the Department of Developmental Biology. I have always been interested in understanding regulatory mechanisms that lead to tissue or cell type specific gene expression. During my PhD in the lab of Galit Lahav at Harvard Medical School, I studied how temporal dynamics of a tumor suppressor transcription factor, p53 regulate the dynamics of gene expression in response to DNA damage. In the Boettiger lab, I'm interested how specificity between enhancer-promoter interactions is achieved using super-resolution microscopy.
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Sarah Louise Hagerty
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioSarah Hagerty, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She graduated with a BA in Psychology from Carleton College. Recently, she completed dual PhDs in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Colorado Boulder and pre-doctoral clinical internship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Broadly, Sarah is interested in identifying clinically meaningful patient subtypes based on multimodal data, which could inform personalized interventions. Ultimately, Sarah imagines a new way of conceptualizing psychiatric diagnoses, such that an understanding of biology and behavior yield precision diagnostic insights on a more nuanced, individualized basis. Sarah sees her clinical work as a rich source for scientific hypotheses and personal inspiration, and clinical interactions serve as an important reminder of her dedication to reduce human suffering and increase fulfillment through her program of research A native of Colorado, Sarah is happiest when she's on a hiking trail, playing soccer, or spending time with family.
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Haijing Wu Hallenbeck
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioHaijing Hallenbeck, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for PTSD at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, in conjunction with Stanford University School of Medicine. After completing her internship at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, she earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Haijing's graduate work focused on using mobile app technology for the assessment of depression. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is investigating how this technology can be adapted for purposes of treatment, particularly for PTSD and depression. She is interested in optimizing mobile apps to improve both mental health symptoms and psychosocial functioning for individuals.
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Meghan Halley
Sr Research Scholar, School of Medicine - Biomedical Ethics
BioMeghan Halley, PhD, MPH, is a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) at Stanford University. She completed her doctorate in medical anthropology from Case Western Reserve University in 2012, and additional training in health services research at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute from 2012 through 2016. After a hiatus from research to care for her second child, who was born with a rare genetic condition that remains undiagnosed, Dr. Halley joined SCBE in 2020. Her current research focuses at the intersection of the ethics and economics of new genomic technologies. Her current projects include: 1) examining ethical issues related to sustainability and governance of patient data and relationships when large clinical genomic studies transition to new models of funding; 2) exploring how diverse stakeholders perceive value in the use of genome sequencing for diagnosis of rare diseases; and 3) developing new measures for assessing patient-centered outcomes in pediatric rare diseases. She is also a member of the patient and family advisory group of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, where her son is a current participant.
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Muhammad Murtaza Hassan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Center
BioMurtaza is a chemical biologist that joined the Gray Lab in July 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher. He developed his love for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology at the undergraduate level at the University of Toronto Mississauga which then motivated him to pursue an MSc (York University, Supervisor: Prof. Edward Lee-Ruff, 2017) and PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga, Supervisor: Patrick T. Gunning, 2021) in the field. His PhD work involved the development of some of the most potent and selective HDAC8 inhibitors known-to-date. It incorporated inhibitors with L-shaped conformational constraints to compliment the L-shaped HDAC8 pocket. His current work at the Gray Lab revolves around the development of first-in-class covalent inhibitors for recently discovered epigenetic targets that have been shown to synergize with anticancer immunotherapy. Additionally, he is interested in developing small-molecule chemoproteomic tools that can potentially expand our ability to target otherwise undruggable proteins, by using protein-protein interactions for cross-labelling/drugging interacting proteins.
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Alesha Heath
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Alesha Heath is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine and the MIRECC the VA Palo Alto. She earned her PhD from the University of Western Australia and Sorbonne University.
Dr. Heath's research has been primarily focused on the mechanisms and applications of brain stimulation therapies, in particular repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Her research involves both basic and clinical components with the aim of improving the efficacy of these therapies for the treatment of disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. -
Laurin Heinrich
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
BioLaurin Heinrich, Ph.D. is a dedicated Postdoctoral Research Fellow specialized in neuroscience and neurophysiology. Driven by her passion to improve therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, she seeks to uncover and understand the mechanisms underlying severe diseases such as Parkinson's. She thereby incorporates an interdisciplinary approach combining human iPSC modeling and CRISPR screening with molecular biological and novel electrophysiological techniques.
During a 6 months postdoctoral fellowship at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laurin contributed to the development of a functional cortico-striato-nigral neuronal microcircuit using human-derived iPSC (2020). She completed her doctoral thesis in the lab of Prof. Dr. Carsten Duch at the Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology (IDN) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2016-2019), where she investigated the neuronal function of α2δ calcium channel subunits. She received her Master of Science with a major in Neurobiology from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2013-2015) and a Bachelor’s degree from the Technical University Kaiserslautern (2010-2013). -
John Hickey
Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in engineering and using tools which can capture the complex interactions of the immune system more holistically. Understanding the immune system at a systems level will be even more critical as we try to engineer it for therapy. This will enable unique innovations in therapies overcoming several challenges of current immunotherapies: (1) ineffective for a large subset of patients, (2) non-specific, causing immunocompromised or autoimmune states, (3) costly, (4) not well modeled or predicted by in vitro tests and animal models, and (5) treat symptoms rather than cure disease.
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Brian Hie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
BioI’m currently a Stanford Science Fellow in the Stanford University School of Medicine where I develop algorithms and machine learning methods with a focus on biological application.
I did my Ph.D. at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT and was an undergraduate at Stanford University. I’ve also worked on machine learning for early-pipeline moonshots at Google X and for health-related applications at Illumina. -
Tuuli Maria Hietamies
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioTuuli Hietamies, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Her research interests include studying psychedelics and utilising these in the context of brain injury and rehabilitation.
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Vy Thuy Ho
Postdoctoral Scholar, General Internal Medicine
BioVascular surgery resident interested in automated approaches to leveraging electronic medical data with the goal of improving surgical diagnostics and outcomes. Stanford Intermountain Fellow pursuing a Masters of Science in Bioinformatics from July 2020 to June 2022.
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Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2021
Fellow in MedicineBioInfectious Diseases Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine. Research to benefit underserved populations.
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Malorie B. Holmes
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Nephrology
Fellow in MedicineBioHi there! I am a native of south Louisiana with my undergraduate degree in Marketing from Tulane University. I worked as a post-graduate research assistant at Xavier University of Louisiana prior to attending medical school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. I completed my Internal Medicine Residency at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS prior to moving out west for my Nephrology Fellowship here at Stanford.
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Kaiwen Hsiao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
BioKaiwen Hsiao a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in the DeSimone lab. Her postdoctoral research focuses on developing high-resolution 3D CLIP printers and developing stereolithography computational models. Her research interests involve in fabricating micro-architectures for bio-oriented applications and microelectronic applications. Before she join Stanford, she worked on computational lithography as a design engineer at Intel and at Apple camera hardware. She did her PhD at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where she focused on understanding the intermolecular interactions of concentrated polymer solutions and ring polymers.
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Zhi Huang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Data Sciences
BioZhi Huang received his Bachelor of Science degree in Automation (BS--MS straight entrance class) from Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Electronic and Information Engineering in June 2015. In August 2021, He received a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
His background is in the area of Machine and Deep Learning, Computational Pathology, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics.
From May 2019 to August 2019, he was at Philips Research North America as a Research Intern. -
Noor A. Hussein
Postdoctoral Scholar, Human Gene Therapy
BioIam a pharmacologist scientist. My experience as a researcher has taught me to seek out new perspectives for exploration and discovery. As a dedicated biological and pharmacological researcher with over 7 years of experience with models of diseases such as cancer both in vitro and in vivo. During my masters and Ph.D. studies, I mastered lots of molecular biology techniques, including cell culture, cytotoxicity assays, western blot, quantitative PCR, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry. I utilized my skills to design experiments finding solutions to common problems in the biomedical field, especially cancer experimental and molecular therapeutics.
