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Abbas Khojasteh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioHis current medical study and research at Stanford is directed towards applying early detection strategies to the treatment of brain tumors and reversing the damaging side effects of treatment-related brain injury. He received his Ph.D from Zurich University and completed postdoctoral neurosurgery training at Duke University where he was studying experimental models of neuro modulation of glycemia and immune system in infectious diseases and inflammatory disorders. He evaluated the Electrical modulation efficacy in ongoing inflammation and hyperglicemia under different conditions, such as somatotopy organizations, disease states and intensities (electrical current/potential); and he recognized different neuro fibers controlling inflammation and glycemia networks. He pushed further his idea to find out whether regulation of glycemia and inflammation by electricity is dependent on central processing and to discover a new mechanism controlling insulin production. For this novel study, he performed Spinal Cord surgery. Also, as a bioengineer, his previous research focused on drug discovery, cell biology and cell cultivation techniques for optimization of growth and bioengineering parameters in bioreactors. He has experience in expression of therapeutic antibodies and production of secondary metabolites in mammalian and plant cell cultivations for therapeutics and diagnostics aims.
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Cynthia Khoo
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Khoo has dedicated her career to the intersection of medical education and global health equity. Fellowship trained in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, she has taken on various roles in medical education and currently is the Associate Program Director of Career Development for the Stanford Anesthesia Residency and the Director of Education for the Regional Division. Following a pivotal rotation in Rwanda during residency, Dr. Khoo has been actively engaged as the Co-director of the Division of Global Health Equity, promoting safe and equitable perioperative care. Her initiatives have involved creating educational tools for resource-constrained settings, including ballistic gel simulation phantoms for ultrasound-guided needling practice and Learnly online ultrasound anatomy training modules in partnership with the AIM lab. Her recent work has focused on augmented reality simulations for remote crisis resource management training at Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME) hospital in Tanzania, in collaboration with CHARIOT and Invincikids. Dr. Khoo's clinical practice includes specialization in regional, orthopedic, and thoracic anesthesia.
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Chaitan Khosla
Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch in this laboratory focuses on problems where deep insights into enzymology and metabolism can be harnessed to improve human health.
For the past two decades, we have studied and engineered enzymatic assembly lines called polyketide synthases that catalyze the biosynthesis of structurally complex and medicinally fascinating antibiotics in bacteria. An example of such an assembly line is found in the erythromycin biosynthetic pathway. Our current focus is on understanding the structure and mechanism of this polyketide synthase. At the same time, we are developing methods to decode the vast and growing number of orphan polyketide assembly lines in the sequence databases.
For more than a decade, we have also investigated the pathogenesis of celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine, with the goal of discovering therapies and related management tools for this widespread but overlooked disease. Ongoing efforts focus on understanding the pivotal role of transglutaminase 2 in triggering the inflammatory response to dietary gluten in the celiac intestine.
