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Diversity Recruitment and Visits

Recruitment

The Stanford School of Medicine Biosciences Home Programs seek to recruit to their PhD programs talented undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in biomedical research. Stanford administrators, students, and faculty attend national science research conferences, including:

If you are interested in receiving more information about Stanford's Graduate and Summer Research Programs please fill out an interest form.

Campus visits

The Stanford Biosciences Home Programs attend graduate school information fairs, and members of the Stanford community also participate in individualized information sessions at colleges and universities across the country.

Please see the calendar below for a complete schedule of recruitment and outreach, or contact the Graduate Programs and Diversity Office for more information on requesting a campus visit.

Recruitment Events

Students, faculty, and diversity staff travel across the country to universities and conferences inviting undergraduate students to learn about what Stanford has to offer. We discuss what the Biosciences Home Programs are like, what we are looking for in a student, how to apply to the graduate program, opportunities in undergraduate summer programs, and what it is like once you get to Stanford. Please visit and consider subscribing to our calendar for both on-campus and off-campus events. Events Calendar

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Stanford Biosciences, 1967: First synthesis of biologically active DNA in test tube
Stanford Biosciences, 1970: Development of the florescence-activated cell sorter
Stanford Biosciences, 1971: Discovery of RNA priming of DNA synthesis
Stanford Biosciences, 1972: First construction of a recombinant DNA molecule containing DNA from two different species
Stanford Biosciences, 1973: First expression of a foreign gene implanted in bacteria by recombinant DNA methods
Stanford Biosciences, 1984: Isolation of a gene coding for part of the T-cell receptor, a key to the immune system's function
Stanford Biosciences, 1987: Purification of first stem cells
Stanford Biosciences, 1988: Discovery of the nuclear factor of activated T cells
Stanford Biosciences, 1990: Discovery of "Off-switch" for genetic reproduction in bacteria
Stanford Biosciences, 1995: Development of the microarray technology that allows researchers to see at once which genes of the thousands present in a cell are switched "on"
Stanford Biosciences, 2000: First use of gene expression profiling to distinguish cancer sub-types
Stanford Biosciences, 1990-2001: Participation in the Human Genome Project; Stanford is 9th worldwide in contributions to the genome
Stanford Biosciences, 2001: The first molecular snapshot published of the protein machinery responsible for transcription in yeast — RNA polymerase II — in action; this helped explain how cells express all the information the human genome
Stanford Biosciences, 2002: First use of RNAi to switch off genes in mice. RNAi offers an extremely selective method to "mute" a single gene amongst the thousands in the genome, helping provide precise information about the role of the gene
Stanford Biosciences, 2009: A researcher sequences his own genome for less than $50,000 and with a team of just two others
Stanford Biosciences, 2007: Array tomography invented
Stanford Biosciences, 2007: For the first time, researchers use a healthy person's complete genome sequence to predict his risk for dozens of diseases