Sarafan ChEM-H

Bridging chemistry, engineering, biology & medicine to advance human health, transform research, and train the next generation of scientific leaders @Stanford

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

Check out this Q&A with Katelyn Randal, a @StanfordUChem PhD student in @StevenMBanik's lab and ChEM-H CBI trainee. She shares her work broadening the molecular toolbox for drug discovery, her advice for incoming students, and more:
https://t.co/sc07ePel34

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

“We study extremes”
New @NatureComms study by Institute Scholar @hawa_racine, Manasi Sawant & Aidan Cabral & team shows how immune cells pop like overfilled water balloons. Understanding it may help pop cancer cells. https://t.co/AlSGAaypwH @bioe_stanford

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

Faculty fellow @AppelGroup, former CBI trainee Shoshana Williams & team built an AI tool to identify promising antibiotic candidates that are polymer-based and less prone to resistance that could help find new ways to treat challenging infections: https://t.co/dPx2MCG4oM

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

Institute Scholar Peter Kim spent 12+ years helping develop and approve 20+ vaccines and medicines, including Gardasil and Keytruda.
His lab @Stanford combines protein engineering and AI to design vaccines with broader, more durable immune protection: https://t.co/M6tfovcXgx

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Your purpose as a scientist is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity. And those discoveries and that knowledge stays with humanity long after you are gone.”

- 2022 chemistry laureate @CarolynBertozzi, awarded for developing bioorthogonal reactions.

[Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics @Cancer_dynamics]

Welcome to the 2026-2027 Seminar Series! We are pleased to host researchers from institutions across the world, including @Stanford, @tcddublin, @harvardmed, and more > https://t.co/6UMzxhYR1X

2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

From an unexpected personal loss, to a pathology residency, to a defining conversation and more, Institute Scholar Paul Mischel traces the key turning points in his life and career in cancer research:https://t.co/Nyg68olaB6
@NatureCancer @mischellab

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Engineered human Argonaute 2 for targeted C-to-U RNA base editing https://t.co/Xpbr9Ow7RW

[Long Lab @longlabstanford]

A big thank you to Leslie Leinwand lab for hosting @Shuke_Xiao @ssiipei this week @CUBoulder. Learning more about 🐍 husbandry to get our own colony up and going @Stanford_ChEMH

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

#ICYMI This year is the 10th anniversary of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program, which has brought together over 155 scientists-in-training from across chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine PhD programs at Stanford.
Learn more: https://t.co/IBs0zntQaw

[Steven Banik @StevenMBanik]

Our final version of human AGO2 led editing of RNA is out today in @NatureBiotech! Led by @noScandineHere, we got excited by the reduced immunogenic risk and efficacy advantages of using a human-derived protein for non-downregulatory RNA manipulation.
https://t.co/0cyURONnEH

[Norah Liang, MD @NorahLiang]

More exciting work from the Banik lab! Congratulations @noScandineHere @StevenMBanik @StanfordUChem @Stanford_ChEMH

[Rachel Willand-Charnley @RAWC_Lab]

I can’t wait for the next event that brings us all together. Until next time Bertozzi family! @Stanford_ChEMH

[Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics @Cancer_dynamics]

Thank you to Dr. Paul Mischel of @Stanford for yesterday’s IICD Seminar! 🧬

Dr. Mischel discussed how ecDNA drives cancer evolution, enabling tumor cells to rapidly adapt to changing environments and treatments.

Watch the recording here: https://t.co/TV6tRYtQUe

[Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute @StanfordBrain]

Our 13th Annual Stanford Neurosciences Symposium has begun! Our topic: Building the Brain. We’re exploring how our brains wire themselves up from a few cells into the three pounds of matter in our skulls that makes us who we are.

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Rebecca Pinals @RLPlikesscience for receiving the 2026 Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award! https://t.co/86E74pyfU1 @StanfordEng

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

A team including Gerald Crabtree, Institute Scholar Nathanael Gray, Stephen Hinshaw, Michael Green, CBI fellow Meredith Nix & co-lead author Sai Gourisankar, & Nucleus Director Daniel Fernandez built a molecule that flips BCL6 into a cancer kill switch: https://t.co/kND7bJkaos

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

That’s a wrap on #CRB60! Thank you to all the researchers who showed, from glycoRNA to bioluminescence to tuberculosis, just how far Carolyn Bertozzi’s legacy has traveled!

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

@basktastic @profjasti @EllenSletten @ZevGartner @Cornell @UCIrvine @uoregon @nanohoops @UCLA @dartmouth @slettengroup @tudresden_de @Harvard @thewoolab @UCSF @MattRPratt @UTSWMedCenter @USC @UUtah @DukeMedSchool @UAlberta @BostonChildrens @harvardmed @siegristpalmore @StacyMalaker @stonybrooku @BowdoinCollege @UMassAmherst @scrippsresearch @SFU @YaleChem @PKU1898 @StevenMBanik @Hatzios_Lab @MCDB_Yale @StanfordUChem @genentech @GSKUS @UCSanDiego @scrippsresearch #CRB60

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

Today we're live from #CRB60, a symposium honoring our director Carolyn Bertozzi's legacy and impact on chemical biology. Speakers include Bertozzi lab alumni now leading their own research.

[Sarafan ChEM-H @Stanford_ChEMH]

@basktastic @profjasti @EllenSletten @ZevGartner @Cornell @UCIrvine @uoregon @nanohoops @UCLA @dartmouth @slettengroup @tudresden_de @Harvard @thewoolab @UCSF @MattRPratt @UTSWMedCenter @USC @UUtah @DukeMedSchool @UAlberta @BostonChildrens @harvardmed @siegristpalmore @StacyMalaker @stonybrooku @BowdoinCollege @UMassAmherst @scrippsresearch @SFU @YaleChem @PKU1898 Session 4: Inventing Tomorrow's Medicines. Chair Stavroula Hatzios, with @StevenMBanik, Nicholas Agard, Lisa Marcaurelle, Matthew Hangauer, Peng Wu, and Penelope Drake; Hatzios closes. #CRB60