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Nawal Maria Boukli
Affiliate, Neurosurgery
BioDr. Nawal Boukli’s research focuses on understanding how cells transition from adaptive to maladaptive stress responses, with a central emphasis on endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, unfolded protein response (UPR) signaling, and GRP78 as a master regulator of cell fate and survival. Her work has defined critical mechanistic links between GRP78-driven stress adaptation, metabolic reprogramming, and therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma (GBM), while advancing GRP78 as a translational therapeutic target through antibody-based anti-GRP78 strategies designed to disrupt tumor survival pathways.
Her broader research program integrates molecular biology, quantitative multi-omics, cancer biology, and NeuroHIV to uncover stress-driven mechanisms underlying disease progression. In parallel, her NeuroHIV studies investigate how HIV-1 gp120 induces maladaptive ER stress responses that alter astrocyte–neuron communication, promote synaptic vulnerability, and contribute to neurodegenerative processes. Collectively, her work bridges cancer and neurodegeneration through a unifying framework centered on proteostasis disruption and chronic stress signaling.
In her project at Stanford University, awarded by The NIH Brain Initiative, Dr. Boukli is extending her research program using advanced spatial omics and neurobiology approaches to define astrocyte-specific ER stress domains and map how gp120-driven stress signaling becomes spatially organized within intact neural systems. This work aims to identify spatially resolved therapeutic targets and advance high-impact translational neuroscience studies.
Dr. Boukli is also recognized for her innovative teaching, scientific leadership, and commitment to mentorship. She has mentored more than 32 master’s students, 8 Ph.D. students, and numerous undergraduate trainees, while developing student-centered scientific training and mentoring initiatives. Following her election to the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Executive Board in 2019, she launched the organization’s first annual speed-mentoring initiative in 2020. She additionally serves as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review, including study sections focused on cancer therapeutics and biomarker development.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:
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Ruxandra Boul
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTimes Series Econometrics, International Finance and Monetary Policy
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Adam Bouland
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
BioAdam Bouland is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research focuses on quantum computing theory and connections between computational complexity and physics. Please see http://theory.stanford.edu/~abouland/ for details.
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Donna M. Bouley, DVM, PhD
Professor of Comparative Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests: ocular pathology, host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease, infectious disease in frogs, phenotypic characterization of tg and ko mice, histopathology of minimally-invasive radiological ablation techniques (focused ultrasound, cryoablation).
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Timothy A. Bouley
Managing Director for Biological Solutions, Food, and Agriculture, Sustainability Accelerator
BioTimothy A. Bouley, MD, MSc, MA is Managing Director for Biological Solutions, Food, and Agriculture at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is responsible for leading the strategy and implementation of life science-related ‘Flagship Destinations,’ accelerating Stanford research into scalable technology and policy solutions.
Dr. Bouley has spent more than 20 years working across biotechnology, medicine, food systems, and the environment. In 2020, he founded and served as CEO of BioFeyn, a life science company based at Harvard, translating biomedical innovation in nanoparticle and stability science to improve the health and sustainability of farmed Norwegian salmon and animal agriculture. In recent years he has also worked to develop and support biological innovations in eDNA and genomics, oral vaccines, tissue engineering, and others with a particular focus on applied benefit for environmental sustainability.
From 2011 – 2018, Timothy was at the World Bank where he established several of the first international programs in Planetary Health: founding the World Bank program on Climate Change and Health; launching the new field of Climate-Smart Healthcare; and serving as the originating author for the first UN-World Bank framework on One Health. Operationally, this work supported lending throughout Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, deploying technology-focused innovation and finance in environment, infectious disease, and agriculture. He led numerous publications, including the five-part 'Investing in Climate and Health' series and 'Framework for Strengthening Human, Animal, and Environmental Public Health Systems.'
He has written and lectured widely on the relationship of human health to the environment and serves as a regular advisor to international organizations, governments, financial institutions, industry, and start-ups. He has held fellowships with the US National Academy of Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, University of Exeter, and University of Edinburgh. He holds degrees in biology, bioethics, geography, and medicine. -
Touria Boumehdi
Advanced Lecturer
BioDr. Touria Boumehdi Tomasi serves on the faculty of the Language Center at Stanford University. She teaches all levels of undergraduate and graduate courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Spanish, including accelerated and intensive offerings. Also, in Spring 2016, she will teach a new course in the Department of Languages Cultures and Literatures (DLCL), “Aljamía language and literature through the study and analyze of aljamiado manuscripts.”
With over 31 years of professional and academic experiences, Dr. Boumehdi has worked as Co-Director of the Spanish Department at the University of Rabat and Professor of Spanish and Arabic in Spain and France at the University of Toulouse le Mirail, the Toulouse School of Business, IAAE Oviedo and ECLAP Valladolid. She completed her Doctorate with a joint Ph.D. and highest honors in Spanish and Arabic at the University of Toulouse, a Master’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat, and an In-Depth Studies Diploma (DEA) including five post-undergraduate years of study in Oriental Languages, Literature, and Civilizations from the University of Paris III in New Sorbonne. Dr. Boumehdi also holds an MBA in International Marketing and Commerce from E S C Toulouse School of Business and hold 6 years experiences as a Export Manager in 3 French technology firms.
Included among her recent book and other publications are several articles and her doctoral dissertation published in Spain in 2012 on the topic of Aljamiado (15th and 16th century Spanish manuscripts written in Arabic) language and literature.
Dr. Boumehdi has been teaching at Stanford since July 2012 where she is a certified ACTFL OPI and WPT Tester of Arabic. -
Sebastien Boutet
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioI am currently a Senior Staff Scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. I also serve the role of LCLS Director of Experimental Operations since 2020.
I joined SLAC in 2007 working on the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) instrument as part of the LCLS Ultrafast Science Instrument (LUSI) project. This project delivered one of the first operating LCLS instruments in 2011, available to the user community for cutting edge ultrafast x-ray science. After a few years of working with LCLS staff and a broad user community on many experiments, I also worked on the design and deployment of a new LCLS x-ray instrument, the Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography (MFX) instrument. From there, I became the Department Head for the LCLS Hard X-ray Department, charged with the operations of the XPP, XCS, MFX and CXI instruments. I worked in this role until 2020 when I become LCLS Director of Experimental Operations.
During my undergraduate studies in Physics at McGill University, I spent a summer at TRIUMF at the University of British Columbia working on heavy ion cooling trap simulations. After graduating with Honours in 1999, I joined Ian Robinson x-ray diffraction group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I learned how to perform synchrotron experiments at multiple light source including NSLS, ESRF and the APS. My primary focus during PhD work was on applying known and novel techniques of surface diffraction and coherent diffractive imaging to the study of protein crystals. After some work on large protein crystals surface diffraction at NSLS, most of my efforts shifted to a new beamline at the APS. I participated in the installation and commissioning of this beamline, sector 34ID-C, although I was far from the primary contributor. This nevertheless introduced me to the intricacies of building x-ray beamlines. I then used this beamline for a few years to study the shapes and internal defects of crystals of proteins using newly developed coherent diffractive imaging techniques applied to small crystals. While some successes were achieved, it became clear that limitations exist at synchrotrons due to sample motion and radiation damage. Luckily, as I completed my PhD work in 2005, new light sources were in construction that would remove thee limitations. FLASH in Hamburg and LCLS were soon to come online. I spent a few years at the APS trying to observe shape transforms from protein crystals, with great difficulty, something that LCLS now routinely accomplishes without much effort due to the instantaneous nature of the LCLS measurements.
After completion of my PhD work, I joined SLAC as a Research Associate, with a joint appointment with Uppsala University and Janos Hajdu but spending all my time at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working with the group of Henry Chapman. We spent a couple of years using FLASH to demonstrate the feasibility of using ultrashort FEL pulses for “diffraction-before-destruction” imaging and developing new tools and techniques for FEL research. -
Robert Downey Boutin
Clinical Professor, Radiology
BioDr. Boutin works clinically as a musculoskeletal radiologist interpreting a broad array of diagnostic imaging examinations, most frequently MRI, CT, sonography, and radiography.
The clinical focus for Dr. Boutin is MRI and CT of joints, bones, and muscles, as well as adding value to routine radiology exams by translating advancements from fields of artificial intelligence and imaging informatics. These advancements include enhancing routine imaging exams to help promote physical function, quality of life, and healthspan in our patients. Because the worldwide population of people > 60 years of age is projected to double by 2050, there is a crucial need for improvements in the accurate and efficient management of derangements associated with biological aging, including osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and adiposity.
Dr. Boutin was introduced to orthopaedics at an early age by his father and older brother -- both orthopaedists. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University, Dr. Boutin completed advanced fellowship training in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the University of California, San Diego, and worked on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Core professional values include a commitment to outstanding quality, compassion, safety, and integrity.
Dr. Boutin is a leader in musculoskeletal imaging. He is the President of the Society of Academic Bone Radiologists and serves on the Appropriateness Criteria Panel for the American College of Radiology. He is an Assistant Editor at the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), and recently served as the Chair of the Musculoskeletal Imaging Program Committee for the largest medical meeting in the world (RSNA).
He is a frequent invited lecturer for continuing medical education courses, such as those at the annual meetings of the Radiological Society of North America, the International Skeletal Society, and the American Roentgen Ray Society. He also lectures regularly at the international Orthopaedic Imaging course in Davos, Switzerland. -
Keith Bowen
Director, Learning Design Challenge, SAL Digital Learning
BioFor 20+ years, I have worked in the fields of international relief, development, and conflict resolution, building capacity in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as educating students in the U.S., Europe, and other countries who aspire to work in these fields.
Academics & Film
I've worked as an academic and filmmaker, creating educational documentaries on liberation movements around the world, which I've then used with university students in my classrooms. I've had several programs distributed by the Discovery Channel, which has been rewarding, but what has been especially remarkable to me is the response of my students. I've come to appreciate the power of narrative and immediacy of film to transform students' perceptions of the world and their place in it.
Learning Design
Along with an emphasis on narrative and immediacy, I've designed interactive programs that draw students into learning through exploration and discovery - with a dynamically shifting experience based on student choice and response. I've also designed learning programs featuring advanced multiplayer simulations with both live and online interaction.
Scale
I've taken this work to scale. In my work for the U.S. Government and international humanitarian organizations, I've designed courses that have been completed by tens of thousands of students and practitioners, not only at the State Department, USAID, relief agencies, and universities in the U.S., but also at comparable institutions in other countries, and even in internet cafes and refugee camps around the world. I've earned about a dozen awards for these efforts and have delivered presentations on them for the Under Secretary of State, the Senate Appropriations Committee, representatives of the the 57 countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the 35 countries of the Organization for American States, and others.
Virtual Exchange & "Wicked" Global Problems
I am continuing this work at Stanford. My focus now is designing media and technology programs to bring university students in the U.S. and other high-income countries into extended contact with counterpart students in fragile states and zones of conflict to address complex problems that no single country can solve on its own. As students work collaboratively to address these "wicked" problems, we measure advances in learning and shifts in attitude through qualitative and quantitative methods.
I have also launched and serve as Director for the Stanford Learning Design Challenge, which supports students across campus who seek to leverage research in the learning sciences, methodologies in human-centered design, and breakthroughs in emerging technology to change what’s possible in teaching and learning. https://edtech.stanford.edu/
This is an extraordinary time for those who design media and technology solutions for teaching and learning. Blended in smart combinations, especially with traditional in-person learning, the new tools we have are powerful:
- Visual narrative, through its expression in digital cinema
- Expanding and interconnecting networks of lifelong learners
- Complex human interaction, including multiplayer games and simulations
- Complex machine interaction, including generative AI, dynamically responsive to user needs
- Statistical data analysis, upon which to base informed, iterative human-centered design
- Worldwide electronic distribution, especially to inexpensive mobile devices
If we do this right, the world will be much better for it. -
Raffick A.R. Bowen
Clinical Professor, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research involves the investigation of immunoassay interferences from blood collection tube additives; particularly, silicone surfactants.
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Alison W. Bowers
Research Associate, Environmental Social Sciences
BioAlison Bowers holds a PhD in Educational Research and Evaluation from Virginia Tech. Her background and experience include working as a field-based environmental educator with the Cooperative Extension Service and at the national scale with nonprofit conservation and education organizations. Alison has an EdS in Early Childhood Special Education from George Washington University, a MFRC with a Certificate in Environmental Education and Communication from the University of Florida, and a BA in Psychology from the University of South Carolina. Her research focus is on research design and process and she is particularly interested in research reviews, systematic reviews, and grounded theory methodology.
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Daniel L. Bowling, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences)
BioDr. Bowling is Director of the Music, Brain & Health Lab at Stanford School of Medicine. His translational research harnesses the neural effects of music to develop personalized music-based treatments for health and wellness, with a particular focus on anxiety and depression in young adults. His approach integrates expertise in neuroscience, bioacoustics, music therapy, and psychiatry to apply insights from music's underlying biology to medicine.
Dr. Bowling earned his PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University School of Medicine and holds graduate certificates in Cognitive Neuroscience and Translational Medicine. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Science, PNAS, and Molecular Psychiatry. His research program has been supported by federal and private foundations including the National Institutes of Health, NeuroArts Blueprint, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. -
Sarah Bowling
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Bowling lab focuses on understanding lineage formation and tissue growth in mammalian development during normal and perturbed embryogenesis. We use a combination of next-generation tools and classical embryological approaches to uncover mechanisms of plasticity and resilience during mammalian embryo development, with the aim of using this knowledge to extend our understanding of regeneration and developmental diseases.
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Tom Bowman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
BioProfessor Bowman studies reacting flows, primarily through experimental means, and the processes by which pollutants are formed and destroyed in flames. In addition, he is interested in the environmental impact of energy use, specifically greenhouse gas emissions from use of fossil fuels.
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Linda Boxer, MD, PhD
Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRegulation of expression of oncogenes in normal and malignant hematologic cells.
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Steven Boxer
Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPlease visit my website for complete information:
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Kevin Boyce
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy, of Earth System Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPaleontology/Geobiology; Fossil record of plant physiology and development; Evolution of terrestrial ecosystems including fungi, animals, and environmental feedbacks with the biota
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Scott D. Boyd, MD PhD
Stanford Professor of Food Allergy and Immunology and Professor of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur goal is to understand the lymphocyte genotype-phenotype relationships in healthy human immunity and in immunological diseases. We apply new technologies and data analysis approaches to this challenge, particularly high-throughput DNA sequencing and single-cell monoclonal antibody generation, in parallel with other functional assays.
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Stephen Boyd
Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering
BioStephen P. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, and a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. His current research focus is on convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, machine learning, and finance.
Professor Boyd received an AB degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in EECS from U. C. Berkeley in 1985. In 1985 he joined Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department. He has held visiting Professor positions at Katholieke University (Leuven), McGill University (Montreal), Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne), Tsinghua University (Beijing), Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Kyoto University, Harbin Institute of Technology, NYU, MIT, UC Berkeley, CUHK-Shenzhen, and IMT Lucca. He holds honorary doctorates from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL).
Professor Boyd is the author of many research articles and four books: Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least-Squares (with Lieven Vandenberghe, 2018), Convex Optimization (with Lieven Vandenberghe, 2004), Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory (with El Ghaoui, Feron, and Balakrishnan, 1994), and Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance (with Craig Barratt, 1991). His group has produced many open source tools, including CVX (with Michael Grant), CVXPY (with Steven Diamond) and Convex.jl (with Madeleine Udell and others), widely used parser-solvers for convex optimization.
He has received many awards and honors for his research in control systems engineering and optimization, including an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the AACC Donald P. Eckman Award. In 2013, he received the IEEE Control Systems Award, given for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology. In 2012, Michael Grant and he were given the Mathematical Optimization Society's Beale-Orchard-Hays Award, for excellence in computational mathematical programming. In 2023, he was given the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists. In 2025, he was awarded the IFAC Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, INFORMS, IFAC, and ACA, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He has been invited to deliver more than 100 plenary and keynote lectures at major conferences in control, optimization, signal processing, and machine learning.
He has developed and taught many undergraduate and graduate courses, including Signals & Systems, Linear Dynamical Systems, Convex Optimization, and a recent undergraduate course on Matrix Methods. His graduate convex optimization course attracts around 300 students from more than 20 departments. In 1991 he received an ASSU Graduate Teaching Award, and in 1994 he received the Perrin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering. In 2003, he received the AACC Ragazzini Education award, for contributions to control education. In 2016 he received the Walter J. Gores award, the highest award for teaching at Stanford University. In 2017 he received the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of IEEE, with citation "For inspirational education of students and researchers in the theory and application of optimization." -
Heather E Boynton
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioHeather E Boynton is an emergency physician at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, California and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health.
Dr. Boynton trained in emergency medicine at UC San Diego, where she served as chief resident. She attended medical school at Georgetown University and also has a master’s degree in International Security Studies from the School of Foreign Service. She completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University.
As an emergency physician practicing in a rural, cross-border community she hopes to challenge and engage rotating students to provide patient-centered care in a resource-limited setting. -
Axel Brachmann
Research Technical Manager, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordDivision Director (SLAC)
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Christina Bradshaw
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Bradshaw is interested in studying counseling practices and transitions of care among persons with advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease in low- and middle-income countries.
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Landon Bradshaw
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Health Services & Policy Research / Health Equity and Social Justice, expected graduation Winter 2029
BioLandon Bradshaw is a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine with interests in gastroenterology-related illnesses, health policy, and advancing health equity. His work focuses on how healthcare policy and system-level structures influence access to high-quality cancer care, particularly among historically underserved populations.
He conducts health services and outcomes research in the Stanford Surgery Policy Improvement Research & Education Center (Dawes Lab), where he examines the impact of Medicaid expansion on treatment utilization and survival outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer. His broader research interests include evaluating policy mechanisms that drive adoption of innovative evidence-based therapies and designing system-level interventions that promote equitable care delivery.
At Stanford, Landon serves as President of the Stanford Medical Student Association, the elected governing body representing nearly 600 MD and PA students. In this role, he has led institutional initiatives focused on equity, community engagement, and resource stewardship, including securing funding for large-scale service-learning programming and implementing a formalized, equity-centered framework for student organization funding.
Landon is committed to a career at the intersection of academic medicine, policy, and leadership, with the goal of shaping healthcare systems that deliver high-value, equitable care at scale. -
Brian Brady
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
BioDr. Brady is a fellowship-trained nephrologist with board certification in nephrology and in internal medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He provides care at the Stanford Health Care Boswell Kidney Clinic as well as the Stanford Health Care Kidney Clinic in Emeryville.
Dr. Brady is particularly interested in the management of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). He also treats end-stage kidney disease, hypertension, kidney stones, glomerular disease and other kidney related conditions.
His research in value-based health care focuses on methods to improve care delivery for patients with CKD and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). He has received funding for his research from sources including the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Brady has published his research findings in JAMA Internal Medicine the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and elsewhere.
He has presented invited talks on high-value care delivery to policy makers on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He also has made presentations to his peers at national, regional, and local meetings of kidney disease specialists.
He has delivered lectures to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum, Satellite Healthcare Home Dialysis Academy, and other meetings. He has shared his insights in presentations to faculty and students in the Division of Nephrology at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China.
Dr. Brady is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology, and American College of Physicians.
