Stanford University
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Gita Chu Abhiraman
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in MedicineBioGita Abhiraman is a resident physician in Internal Medicine at Stanford in the Translational Investigator Program. She is interested in immune signaling and immune dysregulation in malignancy. She completed her MD and PhD at Stanford in the Medical Scientist Training Program. Her PhD in Immunology was advised by Dr. Chris Garcia, in which she studied cytokine signaling, immune receptor structure, and protein engineering. She was the recipient of a Hertz Fellowship during her graduate training. She previously solved the structure of the interleukin-21 signaling receptor complex. She also developed immune switch molecules called "cytokine adaptors" with applications in cancer and autoimmune disease. She has contributed to work on several other cytokines, including IL-21, IL-12, and IL-10, for diverse therapeutic applications. Prior to her graduate training, Gita completed a bachelor's degree in Physics with a focus in Biophysics at Harvard University. She previously conducted research in the lab of Dr. Stephanie Dougan at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Matthew Alexander Abikenari
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Molecular Basis of Medicine / Immunology, expected graduation Spring 2028
BioMatthew earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from UCLA, where he conducted full-time basic and clinical neuroscience research investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. He subsequently completed a graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford as The Queen’s College Herbruck Scholar, an award granted to only one American student per year, where his research focused on paraneoplastic autoimmunity and spatial genomic regulation of malignant CNS neoplasms.
As a medical student at Stanford University, Matthew has trained under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Lim, developing expertise in translational neuro-oncology, in order to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive immunosuppression in glioblastoma. His research has centered on glial immunology and the metabolic organization of the tumor microenvironment, with particular emphasis on intercellular organelle transfer and immunometabolic reprogramming of tumor-infiltrating immune cells.
His family’s experience with brain cancer continues to ground his work and deepen his commitment to understanding, and ultimately improving, neurosurgical oncology. -
Oscar J. Abilez
Senior Scientist, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Abilez' interests are aimed at elucidating how various biophysical and biochemical perturbations regulate early cardiovascular development across time and length scales that span several orders of magnitude, using human pluripotent stem cells as a model system.
