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Alexander Kaiser
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioAlexander D. Kaiser is an applied mathematician who researches modeling and simulation of heart mechanics. His doctoral work focused on the mitral valve. He currently works in the Stanford Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Laboratory, led by Alison Marsden, on modeling cardiac disease.
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Agnieszka Kalinowski
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a translational physician-scientist focused on studying the role of the immune system in patients with schizophrenia. My work spans careful clinical characterization of patients to understanding mechanisms in basic science model systems, allowing to provide mechanistic understanding to observations in clinical samples. Currently, I'm focused on deciphering the role of the complement system and how the known genetic risk translates into pathophysiological disease mechanisms. I hope that this work will pave the way to novel treatment strategies.
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Nicholas Antonios Kalogriopoulos
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioNick's broad research interests are in developing tools and technologies for research and therapeutic applications. Nick obtained a B.S. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his undergraduate career, he trained with Dr. Paul Sondel, where he worked on preclinical testing of novel immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of neuroblastoma. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science with Dr. Pradipta Ghosh, elucidating the structural basis of non-canonical G protein activation by a novel protein family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Modulators (GEMs). As a Postdoctoral Researcher with Professor Alice Ting at Stanford University, his current research focuses on developing a new system for programmable and user-controlled cellular behaviors for immuno-oncology applications.
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Neil M. Kalwani
Clinical Scholar, Medicine
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular MedicineBioNeil Kalwani, MD, MPP is a Clinical Scholar in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford-AHRQ Health Services Research Training Program in the Department of Health Policy. He attended college at Yale University and completed graduate degrees in medicine and public policy at Harvard University. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital before arriving at Stanford in 2018 for fellowship in cardiovascular medicine, during which he served as Chief Fellow. He is now completing advanced training in echocardiography.
Dr. Kalwani's research focuses on the evaluation of policies and care delivery innovations designed to improve the value of care for patients with cardiovascular disease. -
Tahereh Kamali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Tahereh Kamali joined Stanford University in September 2019. Her research interests primarily lie in the design of new machine learning techniques for healthcare and developing clinical decision support systems to achieve accurate as well as robust prediction particularly in case of having partially-labeled training data. Her research interests also span the areas of the biomedical signal/image processing, computer vision, intelligent assistive technologies, and affective computing.
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Husniye Kantarci
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am very interested in discovering the signals that glial cells and neurons use to communicate with each other, and understanding how these signals regulate neural function and myelination in the nervous system.
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Abraar Karan, MD MPH DTM&H
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Fellow in MedicineBioI am an infectious diseases fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine with interests in emerging infections, infectious disease epidemiology, and global health equity.
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I completed my residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and as a graduate of the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity. I earned my MD from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine where I served as Student Body President; an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and my undergraduate degree w/ distinction from Yale University in political science, where I was a Yale Journalism Scholar.
From February to October 2020, I worked on COVID19 response for the state of Massachusetts as a medical fellow to Dr. Monica Bharel, MA Commissioner of Public Health. From November to January 2021, I worked as a research consultant to the WHO commissioned Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response on Covid-19 epidemiology. I also served as a research assistant for the Harvard College Fall course on Covid-19 and epidemics. Furthermore, I was involved in Biden-Harris campaign's Covid-19 policy writing for school reopenings. Prior to this, I studied epidemic response and emerging infectious diseases, with a focus on rural pathogens, including Ebola. In 2018, I co-founded Longsleeve insect repellent, winner of the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and a finalist in the 2019 Harvard President's Challenge, which we hope will have a notable impact on curbing transmission of vector-borne epidemic outbreaks. I also led the American Medical Association's Journal of Ethics theme issue on pandemic response, published in January 2020. I have peer-reviewed for the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal; Clinical Infectious Diseases; and JAMA.
My previous work over the past 13 years has included various projects in Latin America (Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic), Asia (India, Thailand), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique). In 2011-2012, as a Yale Parker Huang Fellow, I conducted an anthropological research study in India exploring sex trafficking and intergenerational sex work in Hyderabad and Delhi. I am also interested in the intersection between medical ethics and global health (particularly neocolonialism). I participated as a medical fellow in Auschwitz studying the history of the Holocaust for the FASPE program in 2016; and led the AMA Journal of Ethics twice (2016-17 on international healthcare systems; 2019-20 on pandemic response).
Since January 2019, I have also been a columnist at the British Medical Journal. Prior to that, I co-edited the book, "Protecting the Health of the Poor", which was published in December 2015. I have authored works in the NEJM, The Lancet, The BMJ, Academic Medicine, Health Affairs, NPR, WaPo, Vox, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Scientific American, Huffpost, Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and other major publications. Press coverage has included: NBC, ABC, BBC, PBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, ProPublica, WSJ, TIME, TMZ, Science Friday, Medium, The Verge, Politico, CBC News, MTV News, Democracy Now, NPR, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Hill, Business Insider, Vice, Mother Jones, Boston Magazine, Vox, Healthline, Forbes, Slate, STAT News, Harvard Public Health Magazine (cover story Spring 2020), and others -
Haleh Karbasforoushan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Haleh Karbasforoushan received her Master’s in Computer Science and Brain Modeling at University of Southern California. She then worked at UCLA and Vanderbilt University for a few years, studying brain morphological and functional changes in patients with Schizophrenia and children with Autism, using brain imaging methods. She then joined Northwestern University for her PhD studies in Neuroscience with a specialization in movement disorders. Her PhD research, funded by a NIH NRSA grant, used brain and spinal cord structural and functional MRI to investigate altered sensorimotor pathways involved in hand impairment post stroke. Dr. Karbasforoushan's work have been published in journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, and American Journal of Psychiatry. She currently is a post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University and at VA Palo Alto. Her postdoctoral research, funded by a VA Polytrauma Advanced Fellowship, uses MRI and TMS techniques to investigate how brain stimulation can modulate brain functional activity and connectivity in treatment of traumatic brain injury.
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Saswati Karmakar
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioSaswati Karmakar obtained her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She pursued her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, working on the molecular characterization of pancreatic cancer stem cells and their contribution to cancer initiation and progression. Then, she moved to Stanford University with the National Cancer Institute's F99/K00 award for a postdoctoral position in Monte Winslow's lab. Saswati's current research uses novel approaches such as molecular barcoding and high throughput sequencing to understand pancreatic cancer pathogenesis. Saswati's long-term research interest is to elucidate mechanisms of metastasis and ultimately find better therapeutic avenues for pancreatic cancer patients.
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Abhinav Kaushik
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sean N Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research
BioAbhinav Kaushik, PhD
Post-Doctoral Scholar
My current position at Stanford involves single cell Mass cytometry (CyTOF), gene expression and DNA methylation data analysis, as well as integrative analysis of single-cell datasets. I am working with a team to standardize the CyTOF data analysis pipeline using different statistical modeling approaches (linear or non-linear, Bayesian inference).
I have a strong experience in analyzing RNAseq, DNAseq and ChIP-seq data analysis. I am a programmer who loves to code with R, C# and perl. My keen interest includes application development for analyzing scientific data using different statistical approaches. However, my work is not restricted to one particular domain and sometimes includes in silico data analysis and algorithm development for solving both genomics and structural biology problems.
I have joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in July 2018. I received my PhD in Bioinformatics from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India in 2017. Before joining the Nadeau Laboratory, I worked as a Visiting Researcher in the Pathogen Genomics laboratory at Kings Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. -
Faes Kerkhof
Postdoctoral Scholar, Orthopedic Surgery
BioI manage and conduct integrative research using machine-learning, biomechanics, additive manufacturing and advanced medical imaging to drive the knowledge on hand (dys)function in ways that are clinically meaningful.
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Danish Khan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
BioDanish is a postdoctoral research associate at the Brandman & Rohatgi Labs at the Dept. of Biochemistry. His research focuses on understanding the mechanism of eukaryotic protein quality control and stress response pathways. Before joining Stanford, Danish earned his PhD from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX where he studied chemical inhibition of a lipid signaling protein and discovered a novel heme-binding lipid transfer protein. He also holds a Masters degree in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University in India, and a Bachelors degree from Presidency College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta), India. In addition to science, he likes to read about law and intersection of law and technology.
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Syamantak Khan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn-vitro bio-mimetic models of cancer and cancer metastasis
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Minyoung Kevin Kim
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioPostdoctoral researcher, School of Medicine, Stanford University - CA, USA
M.D., College of Medicine, Yonsei University - Seoul, South Korea
Ph.D., Chemistry and Material Science, Princeton University - NJ, USA
B.S., Chemistry, Yonsei University - Seoul, South Korea -
Anna Mathia Klawonn
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research evolves around deciphering the neural circuits of affective disorders. I am particularly interested in how affective and motivational states relate to each other and are encoded in the mesolimbic reward system. More specifically, I would like to find the neurocircuitry responsible for pathologies such as drug addiction, depression and negative affect during inflammatory disorders, in the hope that we can find better treatments against these.
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Nicole Krentz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Endocrinology and Metabolism
BioNicole completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Francis Lynn in 2018. Her PhD research focused on pancreas development and endocrine cell genesis using mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cell differentiation as models. In 2018, Nicole joined Anna Gloyn’s group at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. For her post-doctoral studies, Nicole is investigating the role of diabetes associated genes in pancreas development using genome-editing in human induced pluripotent stem cell models. In 2020, Nicole relocated to Stanford University where she will continue her post-doctoral research on the translation of genetic association signals for type 2 diabetes.
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Justus Alfred Kromer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
BioJustus Kromer's research is devoted to improving deep brain stimulation techniques causing long-lasting symptom relief in patients suffering from neurological disorders, e.g. Parkinson's disease. Being a theoretical physicist in the group of Peter Tass, Justus Kromer performs computer simulations in order to understand stimulation-induced rewiring of synaptic connectivity in symptom-related brain regions.
During his PhD studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, he gained expertise in the fields of stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, and computational neurosciences. He was trained in both, computational studies and theoretical modelling. His general research is devoted to understanding and manipulating noisy nonlinear systems with application to biology such as neuronal networks and signal processing systems, e.g. sensory neurons and chemotactic agents. -
David Krucik, MS, DVM
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Medicine
BioI started working in wildlife conservation and veterinary science over 10 years ago as a volunteer working in marine mammal rehabilitation. My current work focuses on marine mammal research, conservation, and applications within the one health and conservation medicine framework.
