DBDS faculty researcher Teri Klein is one of “Nine researchers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [who] have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS describes their Fellows as ‘a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines ranging from research, teaching and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.'” Dr Klein is being recognized for her work in the “development, implementation and leadership of the PharmGKB resource, a database providing information about how human genetic variation affects response to medications.”
DBDS faculty researchers Aaron Newman, Serena Yeung, and James Zou have been selected to join the second cohort of scientists to be named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators following a competition for individual awards. (The first competition for individual awards was held in 2016, for awards beginning 2017, and a competition for team-based awards was held in 2018.) The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley, funds innovative, visionary research with the goal of building and sustaining an engaged, interactive, and collaborative community of researchers that spans across disciplines and across the three campuses to help solve critical challenges in biomedicine.
DBDS faculty researcher Julia Palacios has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award for support of the project entitled “CAREER: New Statistical Approaches for Studying Evolutionary Processes: Inference, Attribution and Computation.” The award period will be from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2027.