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Jen-Fei Chu
Graduate, Stanford Center for Professional Development
BioDr. Chu is an experienced postdoctoral researcher who has built a strong track record at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Physical Chemistry at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), gaining expertise in single-molecule imaging, molecular mechanisms, and data analysis. He then applied these imaging skills to neuroscience research at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), with a focus on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Beyond his rigorous research, Dr. Chu studied law at National Taiwan University (NTU) in preparation for the bar examination. He is now taking credit-bearing graduate courses in electrical engineering and AI at Stanford University through the Center for Global and Online Education (CGOE), working toward the advanced degrees. -
Lawrence Chu, MD, MS
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have two lines of research, one involving educational informatics and use of technology in postgraduate medical education and another involving NIH-funded work in patient-oriented clinical research regarding opioid use and physiologic responses associated with acute and chronic exposure in humans.
For a full description of my educational informatics work, please see my website aim.stanford.edu.
My clinical research focuses on the study opiate-induced hyperalgesia in patients suffering from chronic pain.
I am currently conducting an NIH-funded five year double-blinded randomized controlled clinical study (NIGMS award 1K23GM071400-01) that prospectively examines the following hypotheses: 1) pain patients on chronic opioid therapy develop dose-dependent tolerance and/or hyperalgesia to these medications over time, 2) opiate-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia develop differently with respect to various types of pain, 3) opioid-induced hyperalgesia occurs independently of withdrawal phenomena, and 4) opiate-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia develop differently based on gender and/or ethnicity.
The study is the first quantitative and prospective examination of tolerance and hyperalgesia in pain patients and may have important implications for the rational use of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain. -
Steven Chu
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSynthesis, functionalization and applications of nanoparticle bioprobes for molecular cellular in vivo imaging in biology and biomedicine. Linear and nonlinear difference frequency mixing ultrasound imaging. Lithium metal-sulfur batteries, new approaches to electrochemical splitting of water. CO2 reduction, lithium extraction from salt water
