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Victoria Cosgrove
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Cosgrove studies putative roles for life and family stress as well as inflammatory and neurotrophic pathways in the etiology and development of mood disorders across the life span.
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Helio Costa
Affiliate, Biomedical Informatics (BMI) graduate training program
BioHelio Costa, PhD, is a medical geneticist specializing in oncology, genomics, computational biology, data science, artificial intelligence, and product development. His work focuses on developing new cancer therapies and medical software to improve cancer patient care. He currently serves as Senior Medical Director and Head of Molecular Therapeutics & Drug Development at Natera and is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford Medical School.
Dr. Costa’s research spans the entire drug development pipeline, from discovery to FDA-approved therapies. He leads efforts in developing innovative cancer treatments by integrating advanced genomics, computational biology, and AI-driven methodologies. His team focuses on the creation of targeted molecular therapeutics, using large-scale genetic data to identify novel treatment pathways and predict patient responses. In addition to drug discovery, Dr. Costa oversees the clinical trials necessary for validating these therapies, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for safety and efficacy. Furthermore, he manages the product development and commercialization process, guiding new treatments from initial research through to market-ready, FDA-approved cancer therapies.
In addition to his therapeutic work, Dr. Costa has led the development and implementation of genetic diagnostic tests and clinical algorithms used to support therapeutic decisions at Stanford Health Care. His contributions include the creation of DNA and RNA cancer diagnostic tests, as well as algorithms that analyze large-scale laboratory datasets and electronic medical records to predict patient outcomes. As a co-investigator with the NIH Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Consortium, Dr. Costa oversaw developing FDA-recognized medical software used by healthcare providers, researchers, and biotech companies to assess the clinical relevance of genes and mutations.
He is the founding director of the Stanford Clinical Data Science Fellowship, where post-doctoral medical fellows engage in interdisciplinary clinical research and implement real-world health data solutions within Stanford Health Care. Dr. Costa is also an Attending Medical Geneticist for the Molecular Genetic Pathology Laboratory at Stanford Health Care, where he previously served as Assistant Lab Director.
Dr. Costa holds a BS in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed his ABMGG Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics fellowship training at Stanford University School of Medicine. -
Ioanida Costache
Assistant Professor of Music
BioIoanida Costache is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology, and, by courtesy, Anthropology, at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Her work explores the legacies of Romani historical trauma, and the feminist critiques of the present, inscribed in Romani music, sound, and art. Her writing has been published in EuropeNow, RevistaARTA, Critical Romani Studies, and is forthcoming in European History Quarterly. Her research has been supported by two Fulbright Grants and the Council of European Studies. She has held visiting and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the USC Shoah Foundation.
Her book project, Hearing Romani-ness, examines how music structures the political and social belonging of Romani peoples in ways that reify and work against processes of identity formation and racialization. Through an ethnographic focus on Romani musicians, the project shows how intergenerational memory of Romani trauma is discreetly imbedded in sonic expressions of sorrow within a bounded repertoire that in being kept private served as a vehicle for Romani collective healing. The book puts forth a new framework for navigating how sound, when heard as affective expression, can be used for reparative purposes in the wake of persecution, while also offering an interpretive and analytic vocabulary for learning to listen for the Roma.
