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Derek Mendez
Staff Scientist - Biomedicine, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordComputational staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), in the Macromolecular Crystallography group (Structural and Molecular Biology division).
Main activities revolve around a 3 year BRaVE-funded project to build a new X-ray resource for the acceleration of medicines development (XMeD). Active in-silico areas of research are in the characterization of crystallization outcomes, virtual and experimental screening of ligands, in-silico methods for lead molecule optimization, and extremely sensitive absorption profile characterization using machine learning techniques. A major computational goal is to determine the most valuable tools (and develop new ones) for future XMeD users.
Beyond XMeD, we are focusing on using GPUs and machine learning models to accelerate processing and characterization of user diffraction data that is collected at SSRL beamlines 12-1, 12-2, 14-1, and 9-2. In addition, we are aiming to make available to users new methods that process X-ray diffraction data at the pixel-level in order to extract more information to better resolve structural changes in proteins arising from e.g., binding events and light/chemical driven dynamics.
We are also partnering with NERSC to build a framework for our beamline users to offload computationally intensive jobs to the Perlmutter GPU cluster. -
Lorelay Mendoza Grijalva
Physical Science Research Professional, Chemical Engineering
BioLorelay is an environmental engineering PhD candidate working in the Tarpeh lab at Stanford University. Her research is centered around recovering valuable resources from wastewater and other pollution streams. She earned her undergraduate degree at San Diego State University, where her research focused on detecting river water contamination during storm events.
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Fernando S. Mendoza
Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs and Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have two research interests: childhood health disparities and workforce diversity. My research on childhood health disparities centers on Latino and immigrant children with a focus on early childhood health and development. My work in workforce diversity examines the pipeline for diversity in academic pediatrics, with special attention on the pipeline for underrepresent minorities.
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Teresa Meng
Reid Weaver Dennis Professor in Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Emerita
BioTeresa H. Meng is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emerita, at Stanford University. Her research activities in the first 10 years focused on low-power circuit and system design, video signal processing, and wireless communications. In 1998, Prof. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which developed semiconductor system solutions for wireless network communications products. After returning to Stanford in 2000 to continue her teaching and research, Prof. Meng turned her research interest to applying signal processing and IC design to bio-medical engineering. She collaborated with Prof. Krishna Shenoy on neural signal processing and neural prosthetic systems. She also directed a research group exploring wireless power transfer and implantable bio-medical devices. Prof. Meng retired from Stanford in 2013.
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Joshua Menke
Clinical Associate Professor, Pathology
BioDr. Joshua Menke completed his hematopathology fellowship at Stanford and a cytopathology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His clinical and research interests lie at the intersection of hematopathology, cytopathology, and advanced single-cell and cell-free diagnostic techniques. As the Associate Section Director of Clinical Flow Cytometry at Stanford, Dr. Menke is developing and validating new minimal residual disease assays for detecting low levels of myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms in the post-treatment setting, as well as multiple other 12-color flow assays with the latest markers for routine phenotyping.
Dr. Menke is the recipient of the Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Scientists and the Laurence J. Marton Award for Excellence in Research from UCSF for his translational work on CALR mutations at the UCSF Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory. Dr. Menke is a founding member of the Cytology-Hematopathology Interinstitutional Collaboration (CHIC), which aims to study the performance of cytology samples in diagnosing lymphoma across large datasets from five academic institutions. He currently chairs this group, leading large clinical research studies. -
Jisha Menon
Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies, Director of Stanford Global Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
BioJisha Menon is the Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies and Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Comparative Literature. She is Chair of the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. Previously, she served as the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of Stanford Global Studies, Denning Faculty Director of the Stanford Arts Institute, and Faculty Director of the Center for South Asia.
Menon is a scholar of comparative dramatic literature and transnational performance studies whose work explores the intersections of aesthetics, politics, and ethics. Her scholarship takes performance as a generative analytical category for understanding how powerful political and cultural formations are inhabited, negotiated, and contested in everyday life. Her current book project, Law, Affect, and the Performance of Personhood (under contract with Cambridge University Press), explores how legal practices produce a particular liberal conception of the person and how this conception differs from more plural and discontinuous understandings of personhood. It argues that attending to the performed and fictive constitution of the person in law reveals the artifice -- and the aesthetics -- at the heart of jurisprudence.
Menon's books and edited volumes explore arts and aesthetics in relation to neoliberal capitalism, postcolonial nationalism, secularism, and geopolitical conflict. Her latest book, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India (Northwestern UP, 2021) considers the city and the self as aesthetic projects that are renovated in the wake of neoliberal economic reforms in India. The study explores how discourses of beauty are mobilized toward anti-democratic ends. Sketching out scenes of urban aspiration and its dark underbelly, the book delineates the creative and destructive potential of India’s lurch into contemporary capitalism. Her first book, The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP, 2013), examines the affective and performative dimensions of nation-making. The book recuperates the idea of "mimesis" to rethink political history and the crisis of its aesthetic representation, while examining the mimetic relationality that undergirds the encounter between India and Pakistan. She is also co-editor of two volumes: Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (with Patrick Anderson) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (with Milija Gluhovic) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.)
Menon's university leadership has been recognized with Stanford’s inaugural Outstanding Leader Award from the Faculty Women’s Forum. She has served on the Stanford Faculty Senate as well as on the Steering Committee for the Faculty Senate. Her contributions to the field include leadership in Performance Studies International, as well as service on the editorial boards of leading journals and book series.
In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Menon is a director, actor, and playwright. Her co-authored play, City of Gardens, (with Abhishek Majumdar) was published by Dawran Press in 2026. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. -
Vinod Menon
Rachael L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Education and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEXPERIMENTAL, CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
Cognitive neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Cognitive development; Psychiatric neuroscience; Functional brain imaging; Dynamical basis of brain function; Nonlinear dynamics of neural systems. -
Farouq Sessah Mensah
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research examines how mathematics teachers and prospective teachers learn, exercise agency, and engage with mathematics and digital technologies across educational and professional contexts. I am particularly interested in mathematics teacher education, technology-mediated teaching and learning, workplace mathematics, and the institutional and sociocultural conditions that shape what becomes possible in teaching and teacher preparation.
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Chris Mentzel
Managing Director, Stanford Digital Brain Project, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Staff, Wu Tsai Neurosciences InstituteBioChris currently serves as a strategic advisor and interim staff leader for a new initiative in human neuroscience and AI.
Previously, Chris led Stanford’s efforts in research and early-career development around data science and data-driven discovery, engaging the entire campus in advancing and applying new data science and AI theory and practice to accelerate research. He helped launch Stanford Data Science and facilitated the merger between SDS and HAI. Before Stanford, Chris started and led the Moore Foundation's Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, an $80 million effort within the Science Program to enable data scientists to turn the scientific data deluge into opportunities to address some of today's most important research questions. He also led the grants administration department and worked as senior network engineer for the foundation. Chris has held positions as a systems engineer and integrator at the University of California, Berkeley, and at various Internet consulting firms in the Bay Area. An active member of the broader big data and open science communities, Chris serves on a number of advisory boards and program committees and speaks frequently at conferences and workshops on topics related to data-driven research.
Chris received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.Sc. in management science and engineering at Stanford University. -
Antonio Meola, MD, PhD
BioAntonio Meola M.D. Ph.D graduated Summa cum Laude and Research Honors at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2008, and completed his residency training in Neurosurgery at the same Institution in July 2015. Dr Meola attended a Ph.D. program at the University of Florence, Italy, where he discussed a doctoral thesis entitled "A New Head-Mounted Display-based Augmented Reality System in Neurosurgical Oncology: a study on phantom".
Since 2/2014 to 1/2015 Dr Meola completed a Research Fellowship in Neurosurgical anatomy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), under the Direction of Dr. Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda. The main focus of his research was the surgical neuroanatomy of the white matter tracts of the human brain.
Since 7/2015 to 6/2016 Dr Meola served as Clinical Fellow in Image-Guided Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA (Director: Dr. Alexandra J. Golby M.D.). During the fellowship, he focused on the clinical application and integration of advanced imaging techniques, including intraoperative-MRI, intraoperative US, functional MRI, tractography.
Since 7/2016 to 6/2017 Dr Meola completed a Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH, devoting his efforts to minimally-invasive neurosurgical techniques, such as Laser interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife), as well as to awake neurosurgery.
Starting 7/2017, Dr Meola joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford. Dr. Meola mainly focuses on conventional and innovative treatments for brain and skull base tumors, including both surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (CyberKnife). -
Matthew Mercier
MBA, expected graduation 2027
Juris Doctor Student, LawBioA creative thinker with a business mindset, Matt has built his career in private equity and venture capital. Now, he plans to combine that expertise with his passion for media and entertainment, aiming to build and invest in the future of music.
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Mark Mercola
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
BioDr. Mercola is Professor of Medicine and Professor in the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. He completed postdoctoral training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, was on the faculty in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School for 12 years, and later at the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Institute and Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego before relocating to Stanford in 2015.
Prof. Mercola is known for identifying many of the factors that are responsible for inducing and forming the heart, including the discovery that Wnt inhibition is a critical step in cardiogenesis that provided the conceptual basis and reagents for the large-scale production of cardiovascular tissues from pluripotent stem cells. He has collaborated with medicinal chemists, optical engineers and software developers to pioneer the use of patient iPSC-cardiomyocytes for disease modeling, safety pharmacology and drug development. His academic research is focused on developing and using quantitative high throughput assays of patient-specific cardiomyocyte function to discover druggable targets for preserving contractile function in heart failure and promoting regeneration following ischemic injury. He co-established drug screening and assay development at the Conrad Prebys Drug Discovery Center (San Diego), which operated as one of 4 large screening centers of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Molecular Libraries screening initiative and continues as one of the largest academic drug screening centers.
Prof. Mercola received an NIH MERIT award for his work on heart formation. He holds numerous patents, including describing the invention of the first engineered dominant negative protein and small molecules for stem cell and cancer applications. He serves on multiple editorial and advisory boards, including Vala Sciences, Regencor, The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research and the Human Biomolecular Research Institute. His laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Phospholamban Foundation and Fondation Leducq. -
Dr Tom Meredith, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr Tom Meredith, born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, is an academic interventional cardiologist and a clinical assistant professor at Stanford. He completed his medical and cardiology specialty training through the University of New South Wales and St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia. After obtaining Fellowship at the Royal Australian College of Physicians, he completed three years of coronary and structural interventional training across St Vincent’s Hospital and Stanford. Alongside his clinical training, he completed a master's degree in clinical trials research as well as a PhD through the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, supported by competitive scholarship funding from the CSANZ and the Australian National Heart Foundation. During his PhD he developed and patented a novel algorithm to predict aortic stenosis severity from single-view echocardiography and his thesis was ultimately nominated for the Dean's Award. His research interests include cardiac remodelling in valvular heart disease and the application of supervised machine-learning methods to predict post-procedural outcomes. Outside medicine, Tom is a dedicated father and avid triathlete who has competed in multiple Ironman 70.3 World Championships.
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Thomas Charles Merigan M.D.
George E. and Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am now emeritus and only participate in university activities through advising my former trainees who have joined the faculty.
