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Timur Absalyamov
Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioTimur Absalyamov holds a doctorate in Economics and a master’s degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity. He has conducted academic research at multiple universities and has gained professional experience working in Russian soccer, as well as an independent sports management consultant.
Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious scholarships and awards, including the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, Sverker Åström Foundation Scholarship, and British Petroleum Scholarship (awarded four times). Timur’s areas of expertise include sports ethics, sports and geopolitics, public funding of professional sports, and issues of sports and sustainability. -
Lucia Aronica
Casual Employee, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioDr. Lucia Aronica is an epigenetics and nutrigenomics scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine with over 17 years of research experience. She created Stanford's first courses in nutritional epigenetics and longevity medicine, and developed "epinutrition," a framework for optimizing gene expression through diet.
Featured in the 2024 Netflix documentary "You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment," Dr. Aronica is a TEDx speaker who presents to 10,000+ clinicians annually. She has published 25+ peer-reviewed papers in top journals including Cell and BMC Medicine, and secured over $1 million in competitive research funding.
Dr. Aronica received her PhD in epigenetics from the University of Vienna (2010) and conducted research at Oxford and USC. She serves on scientific advisory boards in precision health and longevity medicine. -
Michael Baiocchi
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
On Partial Leave from 01/01/2026 To 12/01/2026BioProfessor Baiocchi is a PhD statistician in Stanford University's Epidemiology and Population Health Department. He thinks a lot about behavioral interventions and how to rigorously evaluate if and how they work. Methodologically, his work focuses on creating statistically rigorous methods for causal inference that are transparent and easy to critique. He designed -- and was the principle investigator for -- two large randomized studies of interventions to prevent sexual assault in the settlements of Nairobi, Kenya.
Professor Baiocchi is an interventional statistician (i.e., grounded in both the creation and evaluation of interventions). The unifying idea in his research is that he brings rigorous, quantitative approaches to bear upon messy, real-world questions to better people's lives. -
Narges Baniasadi
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioDr. Narges Baniasadi is founder and executive director of Emergence program at Stanford. She develops educational and translational programs for improving societal health through entrepreneurship. She is also Adjunct Professor with the Department of Medicine where she teaches impact entrepreneurship in the areas related to Prevention and Health Equity. Narges has led multiple initiatives and businesses in the intersection of Technology and Life Sciences for more than a decade. She founded Bina, a pioneering Bioinformatics company, out of a decade of research at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Bina developed high performance computing platforms and AI solutions for cancer research and genomics analysis. Later, upon acquisition of Bina by Roche, she led the clinical software development and AI research as VP of Informatics at Roche Sequencing until 2018.
