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Tobias Lanz
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
BioTobias Lanz, MD is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection and the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford. His research focuses on B cell biology in neuroimmunological diseases and rheumatic diseases with neurological manifestations. He uses high-throughput screening technologies, and methods from structural and cell biology to identify new autoantigens and to understand how certain self-reactive B cells escape tolerance mechanisms. He is particularly interested in molecular mechanisms that explain the association between Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) and autoimmunity.
Tobias went to medical school at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany and at the University College of London. He wrote his MD thesis at Dr. Michael Platten's laboratory at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research in Tübingen, Germany before joining Dr. Lawrence Steinman’s neuroimmunological laboratory at Stanford as a research scholar. After medical school he pursued his scientific and clinical training at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2015 he joined Dr. William Robinson’s lab at Stanford, where he investigated environmental triggers of autoimmunity, including viruses and milk consumption. In his most recent work, he characterized the B cell repertoire in the spinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and identified molecular mimicry between EBV EBNA1 and the glial cellular adhesion molecule GlialCAM as a driver of neuroinflammation (Lanz et al., Nature, 2022). His long term objective is to leverage these newly discovered mechanistic insights to develop next-generation biomarkers and therapeutics for autoimmune diseases. -
Bryan Lanzman, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
BioDr. Bryan Lanzman completed his medical degree and radiology residency at Columbia University Medical Center, before coming to Stanford University for a 2-year Neuroradiology fellowship. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 2017 and is actively involved in medical student and resident education, as well as quality improvement efforts within the neuroradiology section. He also serves as a co-director of the Neuroradiology clerkship for medical students, and for the Neuroradiology elective for neurology residents.
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Gail Lapidus
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union; the Russian-Chechen war; Soviet society, politics and foreign policy
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Paul Lapios
Affiliate, Howard Hughes Medical Inst
BioPaul Lapios; Robin Anger; Vincent Paget-Blanc; Esther Marza; Vladan Lucic; Rémi Fronzes; Etienne Herzog; David Perrais, Cryo-correlative light and electron tomography of dopaminergic axonal varicosities reveals non-synaptic modulation of cortico-striatal synapses, Nature Communications, 2025
Vincent Paget-Blanc#, Marlene E. Pfeffer#, Marie Pronot#, Paul Lapios, Maria-Florencia Angelo, Roman Walle, Fabrice P. Cordelières, Florian Levet, Stéphane Claverol, Sabrina Lacomme, Mélina Petrel, Christelle Martin, Vincent Pitard, Véronique De Smedt Peyrusse, Thomas Biederer, David Perrais, Pierre Trifilieff & Etienne Herzog, A synaptomic analysis reveals dopamine hub synapses in the mouse striatum, Nature Communications, 2022
Sonja Blumenstock#; Elena Katharina Schulz-Trieglaff#; Kerstin Voelkl; Anna-Lena Bolender; Paul Lapios; Jana Lindner; Mark S Hipp; F Ulrich Hartl; Rüdiger Klein; Irina Dudanova, Fluc-EGFP reporter mice reveal differential alterations of neuronal proteostasis in aging and disease, The EMBO Journal, 2021 -
Patrick M. LaPlante
Graduate, Stanford Center for Professional Development
BioHi, I’m Patrick LaPlante, a product and engineering leader with over 30 years of experience in automotive and mobility. I’ve worked across global organizations including Toyota, Volvo, Lotus, and several EV startups, leading vehicle development from concept through production.
My background spans engineering, program management, and cross-functional leadership, with a focus on delivering complex products.
I’m currently at Form Energy in Berkeley, CA, working on next-generation energy storage solutions. -
Mathieu Lapôtre
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy, of Geophysics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioProf. Lapôtre leads the Earth & Planetary Surface Processes group. His research focuses on the physics behind sedimentary and geomorphic processes that shape planetary surfaces (including Earth's), and aims to untangle what sedimentary rocks tell us about the past hydrology, climate, and habitability of planets.
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Joaquín Lara Midkiff
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2025
BioJoaquín Lara Midkiff is a doctoral student studying as a Dean's Fellow in the Department of History focused on Indígena communities from Mexico and Central America in social and labor movements in the United States during the twentieth century. His earlier scholarship has centered on social histories of Oregon’s Indigenous migrant communities in the post-IRCA period.
Based in the Pacific Northwest, Joaquín comes from a family of working-class folks from Oklahoma and northern California and Nahua migrant farmworkers from Guerrero’s cohuixca. He served Oregon communities on public and non-profit boards, including Cherriots (Salem Area Mass Transit), the Oregon Disabilities Commission, and PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker union.
He has also contributed essays on houselessness, disability justice, and immigration that have appeared in the Oregonian, Truthout, and Yale Review of International Studies, among others, and poetry in The Future Lives in our Bodies (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022). -
Sofiane F. Larbi
Undergraduate, Mathematics
Biosofianelarbi.com
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Kathleen Larkin
Clinical Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPediatric pain, palliative care, regional anethesia, and acupuncture.
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Kirk Larsen
Associate Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordCoherent X-ray Imaging Instrument, Linac Coherent Light Source - Laser Scientist POC and SLSO
Ultrafast UV-Vis Sources Group, Laser Sciences Department - Tunable Few-Cycle Source Development -
Kristina Liv Larsen
Associate Curator, David Rumsey Map Center
BioKristina completed a Master of Science of Information Sciences degree and Data Research Management certificate in December 2023 through a distance learning program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has worked for Stanford Libraries since February 2022.
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Nicholas Wiessner Larsen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Larsen is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, Division of Autonomic Disorders. He is a board-certified neurologist and a fellowship-trained specialist in neurophysiology and autonomics. He completed medical school at the University of Utah and neurology residency and fellowship at Stanford.
In his clinical practice, Dr. Larsen focuses on disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). His research interest is in the long-term autonomic complications of COVID-19. He is the principal investigator of a study looking at post-COVID postural tachycardia syndrome.
Dr. Larsen’s research interests also include Global Health Neurology. Dr. Larsen helped establish the first stroke unit in Rwanda and is part of the American Academy of Neurology’s Refugees & Asylum Seekers Working Group.
He has co-authored articles for publication in Clinical Autonomic Research, Autonomic Neuroscience, Nature Climate Change, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence as well as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
