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Suman Acharya
Postdoctoral Scholar, Immunology and Rheumatology
BioResearch focus: Immunology and Rheumatology, Immune metabolism
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Muhammad Abdelbasset Muhammad Ahmad
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioPostdoctoral fellow, Department of Medicine, Stanford University (2022– Present).
PhD, Duke-National University of Singapore (2017 – 2021).
MSc, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University (2014 – 2016).
BSc, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University (2007 – 2012). -
Zahra Azizi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioI’m a medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University focusing on digital health, computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. My research goals are integration and practical application of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) methods in medicine to produce new knowledge, deepen understanding of health-related issues, and address health inequity which ultimately aims to improve patient-care and decrease disease burden.
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Florian Bach
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioI'm a molecular infection biologist by training, but shifted my focus from pathogens to hosts for my graduate research. During my PhD with Phil Spence in Edinburgh I studied both falciparum and vivax malaria using controlled human (re)infection models, collaborating closely with the groups of Simon Draper and Angela Minassian in Oxford. As a hybrid bioinformatician and experimentalist, I love systems immunology for answering complex questions about human health. For my postdoc, I study in how the human immune response to malaria evolves in infants as they become reinfected and age. I'm also interested in how such early-life immunological events, malaria and beyond, may affect vaccine responses and immune development later in life. I address this question by making use of a longitudinal study cohort of infants receiving monthly chemoprevention in Eastern Uganda, together with our collaborators at UC San Francisco and IDRC Uganda.
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Adrian Matias Bacong
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdrian M. Bacong, PhD, MPH is a social epidemiologist by training. His research seeks to identify social and structural factors that underlie health inequities by race, ethnicity, and immigration status. Specifically, his work has explored the role of socioeconomic factors in explaining health disparities by immigrant legal status and visa type. Furthermore, Adrian is interested in the effects of immigration on health. He received a NIH F31 award (1F31MD015931-01A1) to examine factors affecting the health of Filipino migrants to the U.S. compared to Filipinos remaining in the Philippines.
Adrian has also examined the intersections of race, ethnicity, and immigration status among older adults. Finally, Adrian written upon the role of data disaggregation as a method of public health critical race praxis. Currently, Adrian is researching the role of social and policy level factors underlying health disparities among immigrants. -
Cameron Scott Bader
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bone Marrow Transplantation
BioMy research is focused on using preclinical models to develop novel therapies which improve outcomes for patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Currently, my work aims to establish strategies to reduce the risk of relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation without exacerbating graft-versus-host disease or interfering with donor stem cell engraftment.
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Xiangqi Bai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
BioMy research is focused on computational and systems biology. My primary research interest lies in developing new computational algorithms and statistical methods for the analysis of complex data in biological systems, especially related to the large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data. The specific topics I have examined include:
1. Integration of single-cell multi-omics datasets for tumor
2. Statistical test of cell developmental trajectories
3. Visualization and reconstruction of single-cell RNA sequencing data
4. Computational analysis of the bifurcating event revealed by dynamical network biomarker methods -
Shaimaa Bakr
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
Masters Student in Biomedical Informatics, admitted Autumn 2020BioShaimaa is a graduate of the Ph.D. program, the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Shaimaa is a member of the Gevaert and RIIPL labs. Prior to Stanford, Shaimaa received her B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) from the American University in Cairo, where she studied Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. She obtained her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, working in the Cognitive and Immersive Systems lab, and advised by Professor Richard Radke. Shaimaa is interested in applying and developing machine learning methods for medical imaging and molecular data.
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Thomas Barba, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
BioI am a postdoctoral scholar with a medical background in Internal Medicine and a degree in Immunology from the University of Lyon (France). As a practitioner in hospital medicine, I am mainly interested in rare autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
My postdoctoral project in Prof Olivier Gevaert's laboratory aims at developing deep learning tools that take advantage of data fusion procedures to assist clinical decision-making in the management of complex diseases. -
Jan Lukas Boegeholz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
BioI am currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in translational cancer research, linking new insights and techniques in molecular biology to clinical problems in cancer patients. Prior to joining Ash Alizadeh's lab, I completed a four-year fellowship in hematology in Zurich, Switzerland, treating patients with various cancer types and stages.
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Molly Bowdring
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in elucidating factors that contribute to initiation, maintenance, and exacerbation of substance use, as well as problematic substance use consequences. To date, I have largely focused on investigating psychosocial aspects of social drinking experiences via naturalistic, experimental, and meta-analytic studies.
I additionally seek to use scholarly advocacy to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within clinical and academic spaces. -
Paulami Chatterjee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research involves studying the pathogenic mechanisms underlying the host-pathogen interaction in pulmonary diseases. I am particularly interested in exploring transcriptomic and proteomic changes in Cystic Fibrosis and Asthma patients who develop severe allergic inflammation due to fungal hypersensitivity. Complete understanding of these interaction will help us identify significant fungal virulence factors and help us define clinically relevant targets for therapeutic use.
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Tianqi Chen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
BioMy research interest lies in liquid biopsy and early cancer diagnostics, e.g. development of bioassay for detection of cancer biomarkers (proteins and genes) and single-cell research. As well as the integration of 3D-printed microfluidics.
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Cailin Collins, MD PhD
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Hematology
Fellow in MedicineBioReceived her undergraduate degree from Williams College, after which she spent one year conducting research at the NIH National Cancer Institute. She then attended medical school at the University of Michigan, where she also completed a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. She completed residency at UCSF prior to starting Hematology and Oncology fellowship training at Stanford. Her prior research has focused on the transcription factor biology and deregulated signaling pathways in hematologic malignancies. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Ravi Majeti's lab studying clonal hematopoiesis and preleukemic stem cells.
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Jimbo Dickerson
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Oncology
Masters Student in Health Policy, admitted Autumn 2022
Fellow in Medicine
Resident in MedicineBioI am currently in my second year of hematology/oncology fellowship, working on a Masters in health policy, and also doing postdoctoral research on a T32 in the health policy department. I study cost effective strategies to provide cancer care in both the United States and low income countries. In the last few years I have worked on projects in Nigeria, Belize, and California.
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Ramzi Emanuel Dudum
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Masters Student in Health Policy, admitted Autumn 2022
Fellow in MedicineBioI am a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular medicine determined to further cardiovascular disease risk prediction using novel methods and to create practices and systems that allow for reductions in the morbidity and mortality of this disease.
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Aly Elezaby
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Fellow in MedicineBioDr Aly Elezaby is a cardiology fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine and a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Daria Mochly-Rosen. He attended college at the University of Arizona, where he studied molecular and cellular biology with a research focus on mechanisms of genome instability. He graduated from the MD-PhD program at Boston University, with a dissertation focus on the effects of nutrient excess on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in the heart. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Stanford as part of the Translational Investigator Program, where he has continued in fellowship training in cardiovascular medicine. His current research focus is on the signaling pathways leading to cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, with particular focus on the interaction between contractile proteins and mitochondria. He intends to pursue a career studying cardiac metabolism in cardiomyopathy with a clinical focus on advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.
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Ahmet Görkem Er
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Biomedical Informatics
BioAhmet Görkem Er is a visiting student researcher as a Fulbright Ph.D. Dissertation Research Grantee at Stanford. He holds an M.D. degree with a double specialty of internal medicine and infectious diseases and clinical microbiology and is pursuing a Ph.D. in medical informatics at Middle East Technical University (Turkey). He is interested in machine learning approaches in healthcare and working on multi-scale data fusion and radiogenomics in Gevaert's Lab.
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Weiguo Fan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gastroenterology
BioMy research focuses on liver diseases. I got my Ph.D. degree in virology and immune response at Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The two main projects during my Ph.D. program are: 1) explore the relationship between the immune response in Hepatitis C virus infection and Interferon treatment; and 2) investigate the function of ECM1 in liver fibrosis. As a postdoc in Stanford, I will try to integrate basic and translational liver research and focus on: 1) investigate molecular functions of liver immune cells in liver disease; 2) explore key factors determining the change of liver microenvironment that cause liver diseases; 3) use new techniques, such as next-generation sequencing, RNAseq or signal cell sequencing, to explore key factors affecting liver disease and treatment in patients.
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Priya Fielding-Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
BioI am a Sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. My research examines health, gender, and social inequality.
My primary research agenda investigates health disparities across class, race, and gender in the United States. I draw on both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how neighborhoods, schools, and families shape our health behaviors and outcomes. My work has been published in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Obesity, Sociological Science, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.
I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, a M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Bremen, and a B.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University. -
Shawna Follis
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
BioShawna Follis, PhD, MS, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Follis is a social epidemiologist researching social determinants of health, race/ethnic health disparities, body composition, and aging.
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Sajjad Fouladvand, PhD, MSc
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
BioSajjad Fouladvand, PhD, MSc is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Dr. Fouladvand's research career thus far has been focused on developing and applying artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to solve real-world healthcare problems. Prior to Stanford, he worked at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky (UK) while completing his PhD in Computer Science. During this time, he also received training at Mayo Clinic’s Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics as an intern.
While at UK as a PhD candidate, he developed a deep learning model based on transformer and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models to analyze multi-stream healthcare data for prediction of opioid use disorder (OUD). While at Mayo Clinic as an intern, he created a LSTM based framework to predict progression from cognitively unimpaired to mild cognitive impairment in an aging population. In his new role at Stanford, Dr. Fouladvand is involved in conducting AI and healthcare data science research in close collaboration with clinicians, scientists, and healthcare systems with access to deep clinical data warehouses and broad population health data sources. -
Mario Funes Hernandez MD
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Nephrology
BioDr. Mario Funes Hernandez is a clinical research nephrology fellow at Stanford University. He obtained his medical degree at the National Autonomous University of Honduras. His Internal Medicine residency was at Saint Peter’s University Hospital/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, serving as assistant chief resident and was a recipient of the Sister Marie de Pazzi award as best resident of the Internal Medicine Class of 2020. He had the privilege to serve as the Nephrology Chief Fellow in the 2021-2022 academic year. Dr. Funes Hernandez is a Heart Health Tech Fellow at the Stanford Center of Digital Health and has an American Heart Association Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science award to assist in the development of digital health technology tools in the management of hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease and resistant hypertension.
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Prasanth Ganesan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSignal processing, Pattern recognition, Atrial fibrillation, Arrhythmia Mapping
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Xiyu Ge
Postdoctoral Scholar, Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism
BioDr. Xiyu Ge is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Joy Y. Wu at Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism. Dr. Ge obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, mentored by Dr. Lori T. Raetzman. At Stanford, Dr. Ge's research interests focus on single cell profiling and multomics analysis of bone marrow microenvironment under regulation of parathyroid hormone receptor signaling.
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Bruna Filipa Gomes Botelho Quintas
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe increasing availability of very large datasets, along with recent advances in deep learning based tools for automatic extraction of cardiac traits, has led to the discovery of further common variants associated with cardiac disease. However, the genetic underpinnings of valvular heart disease remains understudied. I am interested in developing deep learning techniques to automatically extract cardiac flow information to facilitate genome-wide association studies of cardiac flow traits.
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Tejas Gopal
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Nephrology
Fellow in MedicineBioResearch Fellow, Nephrology
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Jessica Grembi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioEnvironmental enteric dysfunction (EED) affects 50-90% of children in low-income countries and is likely an important factor in child stunting as it impedes efficient nutrient uptake in the small intestine. EED is suspected to be the result of persistent exposure to enteric pathogens, although it has not been correlated with any specific pathogen. My research explores the interplay of gut microbiota, including enteric pathogens, and the host immune system with a focus on understanding EED so we can rationally design treatments and preventive measures.
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Rodrigo Guarischi Sousa
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAbsolutely passionate about bioinformatics and biological questions that can be addressed by DNA sequencing, especially ideas that may be applied to improve general public health.
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Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Fellow in MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical research to benefit underserved populations.
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Zepeng Huo
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
BioConducting research on Foundation Models for medicine
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Kenzo Ichimura
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
BioMy long-term goal as a physician-scientist is to develop therapeutic strategies for right heart failure by elucidating its pathophysiology.
I graduated from Kyushu University, School of Medicine in Fukuoka, Japan in 2008. Following a residency program at Aso Iizuka Hospital, I finished fellowship in Emergency Medicine (1 year) and Cardiovascular Medicine (2 years). My clinical expertise is general cardiology, cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, and cardiac critical care.
After my clinical training, I started my research career working towards a Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Kensuke Egashira. During my Ph.D., I published two papers focusing on the development of novel therapeutics for acute myocardial infarction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Through this research experience, I developed skills in modeling and assessing cardiovascular disease in both small (rodents) and large animals (pigs)
In 2017, I was appointed as an Assistant Professor and attending physician in the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Kyushu University Hospital. During this period, I learned that right heart failure was one of the most devastating conditions with no treatment options in patients with pulmonary hypertension, congenital heart disease, and patients on long-term mechanical ventricular assist devices. I also continued my research with a research grant funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
In 2019, I decided to further expand my research field into right heart failure and joined Dr. Edda Spiekerkoetter’s lab at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. I am currently focusing on the role of BMPR2 in the cardiomyocytes, the structural changes in the right ventricle under pressure overload, and the development of right ventricle-targeting therapy in pulmonary hypertension. -
Hiroyuki Inoue
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Inoue is a physician-scientist who is enthusiastic about bridging research findings and clinical practice.
- a board certified cardiologist with 10+ years clinical experience
- experience in 400+ cases as a main operator in percutaneous coronary intervention, catheter ablation, and cardiac device implantation
- research expertise primarily in iPSCs, genome editing, and regenerative medicine
Dr. Inoue joined the Yang lab in 2022. His research aim is the development of novel regenerative therapeutics for heart failure. -
Kruthika Raman Iyer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Kruthika Raman Iyer, ScD, earned her bachelor’s in Bioinformatics in India, followed by a master’s in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University. She then pursued her doctorate in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on dissecting the genetic architecture of a host of diseases with a particular focus on understudied/minority populations.
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Prachee Jain
Postdoctoral Scholar, General Internal Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn her research, Prachee Jain is studying the design and implementation processes of intelligent technologies, such as AI-enabled robots, conversational agents and virtual assistants, and how they affect the interactions between humans in teams.
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Nicholas Hedemann Juul
Clinical Scholar, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pulmonary and Critical Care MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular and cellular biology of the distal lung
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Vishnu Priya Kanakaveti
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in elucidating molecular mechanisms of MYC-driven drug resistance and immune evasion in cancer using computational and experimental models.
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Abraar Karan, MD MPH DTM&H
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2022
Fellow in MedicineBioI am an infectious disease fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, the Luby Lab, the Center for Innovation in Global Health, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. I worked on the covid19 outbreak for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2020, and the monkeypox outbreak for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in 2022-23. I also served on the WHO-commissioned Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response's research team investigating early global spread of covid19, and helped with policy-writing for the Biden-Harris campaign on reducing Covid19 in schools. I am currently the Principal Investigator of a cluster-randomized controlled trial investigating whether air filtration and ventilation can reduce spread of Covid19 in homes (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05777720).
I completed my internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Global Health Equity program, and have been working in global health since 2008. I co-edited the book, "Protecting the Health of the Poor" (December 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/protecting-the-health-of-the-poor-9781783605521/); and co-founded Longsleeve insect repellent, winner of the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and finalist in the 2019 Harvard President's Challenge. Media/press coverage has included NBC, ABC, BBC, PBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, SF Chronicle, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, ProPublica, WSJ, TIME, Politico, CBC News, Democracy Now, NPR, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Hill, Business Insider, Vice, Mother Jones, Vox, Forbes, Slate, STAT News, MTV News, Mother Jones, Science Friday, TMZ.
For a full list of publications, please see "Publications" tab. For full list of press/media interviews, please see "Media" link. -
Pik Fang Kho
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioI obtained my PhD in genetic epidemiology at Queensland University of Technology (Australia), where my research was focused on using genetic and genomic approaches to identify risk factors for endometrial cancer. During my graduate studies, I gained experience in large-scale genetic association studies and leveraging the correlation between diseases in genetic studies to identify novel genetic variants associated with endometrial cancer. I also developed expertise in various statistical genetic approaches in multi-omics data, including fine-mapping and colocalization analyses, to prioritize candidate causal variants and genes. I also gained extensive experience in genetic causal inference analysis to infer causality between risk factors and health outcomes.
My research focus since moving to Stanford has been the identification of genetic and non-genetic determinants of cardiometabolic diseases. I am currently involved in projects including large-scale genetic association studies, multi-trait analysis with correlated traits, development and validation of polygenic risk scores, integrative analyses with multi-omics data, as well as Mendelian randomization analyses to advance our understanding of the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to cardiometabolic diseases. -
Melanie Ann Kiener
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Fellow in MedicineBioI am an adult infectious disease fellow completing my post-doctoral research years in Dr. Desiree LaBeaud's lab. My research interests include global health epidemiology, infectious diseases diagnostics and global antimicrobial stewardship.
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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
