Osteoarthritis (OA), or degenerative joint disease, affects millions of people worldwide. We are currently lacking surrogate markers of the early stages of the articular…
Medicine
Toxoplasma gondii is a pathogen that is able to infect virtually all species of warm-blooded animals. In humans, this parasite is responsible for a potentially serious…
What is the essence of your research project? We will develop a software platform to facilitate translating novel quantitative imaging biomarkers being developed by the QIN…
Changes in arousal are at the core of neuropsychiatric disease, including depression and other mood disorders. To develop new treatments for depression it is essential to…
Hypertension affects over 1 billion in the world, and risk factors for hypertension, including obesity and insulin resistance, are growing at epidemic proportions around the…
Obesity is an escalating problem worldwide, often attributed to diet but with strong genetic contributions. Genetic studies have begun to identify obesity genes, but current…
Analysis of walking abnormalities is an important clinical assessment used for treatment of gait disorders in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Camerabased motion capture,…
B and T cell lymphomas are common cancers of the immune system. Although diverse, theses cancers characteristically harbor mutations and genomic aberrations that are solely…
I have spent my summer in Paris working to combine efforts between Stanford and the Paris Diderot University on a large-scale research project…
Thanks to the generous support of the FCIS Fellowship, I will be performing research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. I will be working on extending the analysis of a study…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has an estimated incidence of 1:68 in the United States and is among the most common and pervasive neurodevelopmental disorders. Difficulties…
As a leading international research institute, l’Institut Pasteur in Paris harnesses the fundamentals of basic research to reveal groundbreaking results that often give us a…
Dr Owen Phillips’ project for the France-Stanford Center Visiting Junior Fellowship focused on the negative affects degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson…