School of Medicine
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Maja Pedersen
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
BioMaja Pedersen, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Pedersen’s research is focused on three inter-related themes; (1) utilizing community-based approaches to improve understanding of individual, social, and environmental determinants of and barriers to physical activity; (2) adapting and implementing lifestyle interventions with diverse older adults; and (3) exploring relationships between physical activity, outdoor spaces, and well-being. She is currently a National Cancer Institute K00 Fellow, using community-based approaches and implementation science to increase physical activity and address health equity among rural Native American older adults.
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Edward A. Pham
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Gastroenterology
BioMy interest in medicine and research was triggered by my mother’s battle with chronic hepatitis C, which made me realize the transformational power of biomedical research in treating patients. Therefore, my career goal is to become a physician scientist in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology dedicated to translating discoveries in the laboratory into novel medical treatment modalities. My research focus is alterations in phosphoinositides signaling and its pathogenesis in cancers of the hepatobiliary and luminal GI tract with the goal to identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention. I also have a particular interest in understanding the interface between chronic viral infection and cancer through studying how the innate and adaptive immune system are perturbed in chronic viral infections
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Ruoxi Pi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioI received my BS in Biological Sciences in Zhejiang University in China, where I conducted research in polyphasic taxonomy in anaerobic bacteria. I received my PhD in Yale University, where I studied the early events of retrovirus infection in animal models. Now in the Blish lab, I am investigating NK cell responses during HIV-1 infection and trying to manipulate the NK cells to target latently infected cells.
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Roel Polak
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology
BioAs a doctor and researcher, I am driven by curiosity and intrigued by the unknown. In the clinics, my days are filled with ‘real-life biology’ and the joy of interacting with the most pure and honest people in the world: children. In the research lab, my curiosity is driven by the complexity of the disease cancer and it’s microenvironment. I am an unbiased thinker and can easily adapt plans and ideas based on obtained data. My pro-active attitude and eye for detail helped me master multiple complex techniques, start collaborations, and push projects to the next level. In my view, combining fundamental & translational research is the way forward to find a cure for every child with cancer. My postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University will therefore focus on the establishment of novel comprehensive organoid models for pediatric cancers.
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Kathleen Dantzler Press
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioThroughout my scientific training, I have focused on building an interdisciplinary background in molecular parasitology, biochemistry, immunology, and public health to provide me with the skills needed to pursue development of a successful malaria vaccine. My PhD research at Harvard centered on understanding immune responses to the developing transmission stages of malaria. By providing the first evidence for natural immunity to immature transmission stages, this work supports interrupting development and maturation of these parasites as a novel approach to transmission-blocking vaccine design. During my postdoctoral fellowship and in the future, I hope to continue researching host-pathogen interactions with applications to malaria vaccine development, while also being involved in global health work in the field. Currently my work focuses on understanding mechanisms of natural immunity to malaria and immune tolerance, particularly in the context of gamma delta T cell and monocyte responses.
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Krishna Pundi
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Fellow in MedicineBioKrishna Pundi, MD is a Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University. He received his MD from Mayo Medical school and completed internal medicine residency at Stanford University. Following internal medicine residency, Dr. Pundi received a combined appointment as a clinical instructor in hospital medicine and a post-doctoral research fellow for the ENHANCE-AF clinical trial as part of the AHA’s Strategically Focused Research Networks. Dr. Pundi then started Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at Stanford University in July 2020.
Dr. Pundi’s research interest is in combining traditional epidemiologic approaches of understanding disease with novel methods of data acquisition to define clinical, demographic, and arrhythmia morphology features that predict cardiovascular events and death. He was recently awarded an ACC/Bristol Myers Squibb Research Fellowship Award to study the practice variation and treatment outcomes for patients with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia. -
Theadora Sakata
Postdoctoral Scholar, General Internal Medicine
BioStanford-Intermountain Fellow in Population Health and Health Services Research
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Melissa Salm
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGlobal health, medical anthropology, and biosecurity with a focus on the One Health approach to infectious disease epidemiology, viral discovery and risk characterization of pandemic potential pathogens, global health governance, and transdisciplinary approaches to public health innovation
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Pablo Amador Sanchez
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Fellow in MedicineBioDr. Pablo Sanchez is post doctoral medical fellow at Stanford University. He earned a degree in physiology at The University of Arizona and received his M.D. from The University of Arizona College of Medicine, in Tucson. He completed Internal Medicine training at Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and served as Chief Resident from 2018-2019. During residency, his research focused on clinical outcomes of the complex patient composition in the modern Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. He completed Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship and Stanford and served as Chief Fellow from 2021-2022. He is interested in cardio-pulmonary interactions in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Under the tutelage of Dr. Angela Rogers (Pulmonary Medicine Division) and Dr. Euan Ashley (Cardiovascular Medicine Division), he plans to integrate immune-metabolic biomarker and echocardiographic profiling to identify cardiac dysfunction in ARDS. He plans to pursue additional fellowship training in critical care medicine.
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Joseph Schroers-Martin
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Oncology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMedical heme/onc focused on molecular cancer diagnostics and novel biomarkers.
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Rushil Shah, MBBS, DNB, MHS
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioRushil Shah, MBBS, DNB, MHS is currently pursuing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA in the prestigious American Heart Association Atrial Fibrillation Strategically Focused Research Network on Shared Decision Making for Anticoagulation Stroke Prevention under the mentorship of Dr. Paul J. Wang, Dr. Randall S. Stafford, and Dr. Bryant Lin. Rushil recently completed another three-year long Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD United States. His animal experiment lab at Johns Hopkins conducted translational research centered on advancements in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ventricular Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiac Sarcoidosis, Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation & Hypothermia Induction. Rushil completed his one-year training in Medical Immunology & Molecular Microbiology at the Johns Hopkins University as well. Rushil attended medical school at the Topiwala National Medical College & B.Y.L. Nair Hospital in Mumbai, India and subsequently completed his three-years of residency in Internal Medicine out there. Additionally, Dr. Shah has a three-year experience of working as a Hospitalist in a Cardiology Care Unit in Mumbai, India. Dr. Shah is a member of the the American Heart Association, Dallas, TX and the Heart Rhythm Society in Washington DC. Dr. Shah aspires to become a full-fledged Cardiac Electrophysiologist here in the United States.
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Disha Sharma
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioI am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Thomas Quertermous at Stanford University. I have joined the lab with more than 7 years of research experience in the field of computational biology wherein I have worked with multi-omics data for multiple diseases to get a deeper understanding of the disease identification and progression.
My background in engineering and bioinformatics provide an excellent background for the studies proposed in this application, which proposes to investigate the genetics and genomics of smooth muscle cell biology in the context of vascular disease. I first pursued a Bachelor's in Biotechnology program at one of the premier institutes in India, Banasthali Vidyapeeth and received my degree in 2007. After qualifying with the IIT-JAM exam in 2010, I joined the Master’s in Science (Biotechnology) program at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in a program of engineering and technology. After my Master's, I joined Dr. Vinod Scaria’s lab at CSIR-IGIB as a Project Fellow. During the tenure as Project fellow from 2012-2014, I had the opportunity to work with different transcriptomics data from model organisms including zebrafish, rat and human cell lines to understand the role of long non-coding RNAs and miRNAs. I also worked on clinical datasets of autoimmune disorders. With one and half years of research experience and a UGC fellowship awarded through the NET-JRF examination, I continued working with Dr. Vinod Scaria to pursue my PhD. My research interest for the degree focused on the identification and characterization of circular RNAs, and this work has now been published in multiple manuscripts listed below. Over the years at CSIR-IGIB, I have had the chance to work on interesting ideas with multiple collaborating groups. One of them was Dr. Sridhar Sivasubbu, with whom I worked to understand the transcript-level interactions between mitochondria and the nucleus, using zebrafish as a model organism.
In view of my interest in the translational aspects of biology, I obtained the opportunity to work as part of the GUaRDIAN Consortium with Dr. Vinod Scaria and Dr. Sridhar Sivasubbu at CSIR-IGIB. This pioneering project is the largest network of researchers and clinicians in India pursuing sequencing patient DNAs to identify rare SNVs and structural variants responsible for muscular dystrophy in these patients. In the interest of advancing genomics in clinical and healthcare settings, I was selected as Intel Fellow 2019 to work for the Intel-IGIB collaboration focussing on “Accelerating Clinical Analysis and Interpretation of Genomic Data through advanced tools/libraries”. Our project was selected among top 3 from 50 premier research institutes and I was awarded the Intel-India Fellowship for a year to pursue this project. I was also part of the core team of IndiGen (Genomes for Public Health in India). With the spread of COVID-19 around the world, our group contributed by sequencing and analysing COVID19 genomes to get a better understanding of the disease and I had the opportunity to be part of the core team to analyse the viral sequencing datasets and viral assembly.
I am extremely pleased to have joined the Quertermous lab at Stanford to the study of the molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease. Work that I am pursuing in this laboratory, and proposed in this application, are directly in line with my personal aspiration to start an independent career in the field of scientific research to work on projects with high translational value and of interest to the public health. -
Aditya Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioAditya is a medical molecular biology-bioinformatics scientist. He has worked with a diverse group of scientists throughout his career from various fields like microbiology, pathology, molecular biology, oncology, cardiology, virology, bioinformatics, and cell biology.
During his Ph.D., Aditya developed a novel method of knocking down the Philadelphia chromosome, a precursor to chronic myeloid leukemia, using CRISPR Cas13a. He also developed cost-effective targeted genetic screening tests based on next-generation sequencing, leading to the concrete diagnosis in many cases, and is still under use at his previous institute. He also developed an artificial intelligence-based technique to score found variants to decrease diagnosis false positive and false negative rates.
He is currently working in wet and dry labs and with the MoTrPAC consortium. His wet lab work involves the development of "super AAVs" for precise and effective payload delivery into the cardiomyocytes. Additionally, he is also working on establishing organ slice culture in the laboratory, which would help conduct a battery of live tissue experiments. Aditya has also developed several local and cloud-based data analysis and plotting tools. He is also involved with big data analysis and working on answering the question of the scientific link between aging and physical activity. -
Gulshan Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gastroenterology
Basic Life Research Scientist, Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and HepatologyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research interest is to understand the host-microbial pathways in intestinal inflammation. I am working to explore cellular heterogeneity at single immune cell level in systemic and local regions of the intestine that are associated with different Inflammatory bowel disease conditions.
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Sean Paul Spencer, MD,PhD
Instructor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Postdoctoral Scholar, GastroenterologyBioSean Spencer, MD,PhD is a Gastroenterologist and Physician Scientist at Stanford University working with Justin Sonennburg,PhD to uncover the role of dietary intake on the gut microbiome and mucosal immune system. Sean obtained his medical degree University of Pennsylvania, earning his PhD studying nutritional immunology with Yasmine Belkaid,PhD at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), after which he moved to Boston for residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed his Gastroenterology training at Stanford University. Sean’s career goal is to study mechanisms by which dietary intake influences our microbiome and immune system to better understand and treat gastrointestinal disease.
