William Newsome appointed to lead Stanford's new interdisciplinary neuroscience institute

April 12, 2013

William Newsome appointed to lead Stanford's new interdisciplinary neuroscience institute

William Newsome, a professor of neurobiology, says Stanford's new institute will launch a "broad, sustained interdisciplinary attack on solving the problems of the brain."

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p.s. the green project is the White House's "BRAIN Initiative", maybe that is the most interesting part of this story?

Photoacoustic molecular imaging

April 8, 2013

How an interdisciplinary chef cooked up imaging technique

Adam de la Zerda developed a technique known as photoacoustic molecular imaging, which allows researchers to see cancerous tumors hiding under tissues.

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This graph was confusing when I read the article, but centered around the project it is more clear

Looking at a broader ecosystem shows why this is an exciting inter-disciplinary project that has exciting long-term implications for macular degeneration and cancer detection.

Proteomics : Characterizing proteins

Stanford's Department of Chemical and Systems Biology explores the molecular mechanisms that underlie cellular function and contribute to human disease.  According to Tobias Meyer, department chair, it is the first program in the world to combine systems biology, pharmacology and chemical biology are under the same umbrella.

Within this department, one of the labs at the cutting edge of proteomics is the Elias Lab, a team to watch.

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