Stanford University School of Medicine - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

  • John R. Adler - Professor of Neurosurgery. Inventor of CyberKnife.
  • Ben Barres - Professor of Neurobiology renowned for research on sex and intelligence.
  • George W. Beadle - Professor of Biology. Winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Paul Berg - Biochemist. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of recombinant-DNA.
  • David Botstein - Professor in genetics, pioneer in Human Genome Project.
  • Eugene C. Butcher - Professor of Pathology, 2004 Crafoord Prize winner.
  • Gilbert Chu - Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, younger brother of Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
  • Stanley Norman Cohen - Professor of genetics and medicine, who accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells. winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  • Frances K. Conley - Famed female Neurosurgeon best known for advancing women in American medicine.
  • William C. Dement - Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, pioneer in sleep research.
  • Andrew Z. Fire - Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Thomas J. Fogarty - Clinical Professor of Surgery, member of National Inventors Hall of Fame, owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter.
  • Philip Hanawalt - Hertzstein Professor of Biology and Dermatology, discovered transcription coupled repair of DNA.
  • Leonard Herzenberg - Emeritus (Active) Professor of Genetics, winner of Kyoto Prize for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting.
  • Emile Holman - First chair of general surgery at Stanford; Rhodes scholar and considered to be "last" pupil of William Halsted.
  • Henry S. Kaplan - Pioneer in radiation therapy for cancer and inventor of the first linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere.
  • Arthur Kornberg - Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Severo Ochoa) for their discovery of the mechanisms of the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.
  • Roger Kornberg - Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and son of Arthur Kornberg. Discoverer of nucleosome and transcriptional Mediator. Member of National Academy of Sciences.
  • Joshua Lederberg - founder of the Stanford department of genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Donald Laub - Founder of Interplast, Inc
  • Kate Lorig - Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center
  • Norman Shumway - Heart transplant pioneer; Performed first heart transplant in the United States.
  • Bruce Reitz - First combined adult human heart-lung transplant
  • Robert Sapolsky - Famous neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology, most noted for his studies on stress
  • Vaughn Starnes - First living double-lobar lung transplant
  • Stephen Quake - Professor and co-chair of Bioengineering. Founder of Fluidigm Corp, Helicos Biosciences. Inventor of non-invasive prenatal diagnostics by sequencing. Lemelson-MIT Prize winner.
  • Lubert Stryer - National Medal of Science recipient, Winzer Professor of Neurobiology, and author of Biochemistry Textbook
  • Edward L. Tatum - co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Irving Weissman - Leading Stem Cell Biologist. Founder of Systemix and Stem Cells Inc.
  • Paul Yock - Inventor of the rapid exchange system for endovascular procedures.

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