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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
We started RASER as a ground-up protein engineering and math project (with help from Jim Ferrell in Chemical and Systems Biology), then applied it to solve the longstanding problem of how to make cancer virotherapy safer and more effective.
Paper link:
nature.com/articles/s41551-0ā¦
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
Hereās a short summary of our recent #xenocortication article in @Nature, including the rationale, approach, key findings, initial applications to disease modeling, and current limitations.
A tremendous effort led by Konstantin Kaganovsky, Kevin Kelley, Tilo Gschwind, and Paul Harary.
Link to the article below
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#ICYMI Faculty Fellow @michaelzlin and team have developed RASER, a novel therapeutic approach that sharpens the precision of certain cancer treatments while sparing healthy tissue: brnw.ch/21x5XUz
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
š I'm excited to share our @ScienceMagazine study on "Targeting an atypical G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway for cardiac fibrosis therapy". Congrats to all co-authors.
@StanfordCVI @StanfordMed @StanfordDeptMed @Stanford_ChEMH @GreenstoneBio
doi.org/10.1126/science.aej5ā¦
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
šļø Listen to Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi on "From Our Neurons to Yours" podcast, where she discusses glycansāsugar molecules that play key roles in cell communication, immunity, and diseaseāand her pioneering work in bioorthogonal chemistry. brnw.ch/21x5UTD
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CBI trainee Isaac Paddy in the lab of Institute Scholar Laura Dassama and in collaboration with Institute Scholar @JacobsWagnerLab explores the metabolic vulnerabilities of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease in the hope of finding new treatments: brnw.ch/21x5UI5
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We're hiring!
The Microbiome Therapies Initiative (MITI) at Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking a highly motivated protein scientist for a role in our ambitious new effort to develop and produce commensal vaccines in-house at Stanford for clinical use.
Learn more: chemh.stanford.edu/opportuniā¦
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A discovery about how viruses enter cells launched a career focused on translating molecular insights into therapies and vaccines.
Learn more about Peter Kim's scientific journey ahead of his keynote address at #ASBMB2027: asbmb.org/asbmb-today/peopleā¦.
@Stanford_ChEMH | @StanfordMed
ALT ASBMB Annual Meeting 2027 keynote speaker graphic featuring Peter S. Kim of Stanford University and former president of Merck Research Laboratories. Meeting dates: April 3ā6, 2027, in Boston.
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
Most of our cells are covered in sugars. What can they tell us about the brain?
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi shares what these sugars may reveal about the aging brain and how this research could impact neuroscience and drug development.
neuroscience.stanford.edu/neā¦
ALT Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi is the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Institute scholar @nicolemmart & team have developed a method to examine how special enzymes called pseudouridine synthases chemically alter RNA molecules within cells, giving clues to how these enzymes may be regulated and dysregulated in disease: brnw.ch/21x5Nub
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With @gatesfoundation funding, a collaboration between
@Stanford, @BelmontUniv & @BiostructA will train African scientists in cryo-EM, an advanced technique to study HIV and other infectious diseases and design new therapeutics: brnw.ch/21x5JPg
@cobarnes27 @BarnesLab1
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Institute Scholar @StevenMBanik, Melissa Gray & team built a new high-throughput tool to detect tiny changes in cellular protein levels, which could hopefully accelerate discovery of degrader drugs that fight diseases like cancer: news.stanford.edu/stories/20ā¦
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
Congrats to Laura Dassama, recipient of the @ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research! Her discoveries in bacterial lipid transport and metabolism are advancing research on host-pathogen interactions and anti-infective therapies. #StanfordChem #SarafanChEMH
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 @ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research, recognizing her outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids: brnw.ch/21x5yXP
ALT Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research.
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
The Banik Lab has developed a high-throughput tool to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating the discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins: news.stanford.edu/stories/20ā¦
#StanfordChem #BanikLab
Excited our ratiometric transcriptional activation (RTA) work led by @Melissa_Gray234 is out online today @CellCellPress! Measurements determine what we can discover in biology; we use RTA to turn protein abundance changes into amplified signals.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092ā¦
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
š¢ Weāre hiring! The Stanford Chemistry Department is now actively conducting faculty searches (open area) - term to start on 9/1/2027:
- Assistant Professor in Chemistry
- Senior Faculty Position in Chemistry (Associate Professor or Professor)
Learn more: chemistry.stanford.edu/news/ā¦
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
This work was enabled by the fantastic community @Stanford_ChEMH @StanfordUChem @StanfordMed, and by collaborators @corsellos and Nathanael Gray!
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Sarafan ChEM-H retweeted
Excited our ratiometric transcriptional activation (RTA) work led by @Melissa_Gray234 is out online today @CellCellPress! Measurements determine what we can discover in biology; we use RTA to turn protein abundance changes into amplified signals.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092ā¦
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Join us for the CRB60 Symposium, celebrating our director Carolyn Bertozzi's legacy and impact on chemical biology, with talks from her lab alumni!
Oct 9, 2026, Paul Berg Auditorium, Stanford.
Register here: brnw.ch/21x5mmw
@UCB_Chemistry
ALT Speakers: Nicholas Agard ā¢ Genentech Steven Banik ā¢ Stanford Michael Boyce ā¢ Duke Xing Chen ā¢ Peking University Penelope Drake ā¢ 16 Waves Danielle Dube ā¢ Bowdoin Ryan Flynn ā¢ Harvard Zev Gartner ā¢ UCSF Howard Hang ā¢ Scripps Matt Hangauer ā¢ UC San Diego Ramesh Jasti ā¢ Oregon Jennifer Kohler ā¢ UTSW Jessica Kramer ā¢ Utah Lara Mahal ā¢ Alberta Stacy Malaker ā¢ Yale Lisa Marcaurelle ā¢ GSK Matthew Pratt ā¢ USC Jennifer Prescher ā¢ UCI Benjamin Schumann ā¢ TU Dresden Sloan Siegrist ā¢ UMass Amherst Ellen Sletten ā¢ Dartmouth David Vocadlo ā¢ Simon Fraser Christina Woo ā¢ Harvard Peng Wu ā¢ Scripps
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Heloise Hoffmann '26 isnāt afraid to fail.
Former Sarafan ChEM-H Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program (UEP) trainee plans to continue researching a cure for a rare form of muscular dystrophy: brnw.ch/21x5kdV
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