Awards & Honors
Nov 8 2015
Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, won a $3 million 2016 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his contributions to the development of optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control the behavior of cells and has proved...
Feb 12 2014
Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.
The seed funding supports early work on...
Jun 17 2013
Drew Endy, a synthetic biologist and assistant professor of bioengineering, has been honored by the White House as part of its Champions of Change Open Science program, which recognizes those who promote and use “open scientific data and publications to accelerate progress and improve our world.”...
Sep 18 2012
Stephen Quake, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of applied physics at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has received the 2013 Nakasone Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) for “prolific inventions that have advanced...
Sep 13 2012
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has won a Transformative Research Award of $22.48 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health through a program designed to encourage high-risk, high-reward approaches to science....
